Senior Qa Analyst

Erin Associates Ltd; Stretford; Híbrido; GBP 41.000 - 50.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Erin Associates Ltd in Altrincham (Hybrid Working) is seeking a Senior QA Analyst to ensure the quality, reliability and usability of our software products. You will collaborate with developers, product, support and implementation teams to support feature development, releases and customer issue investigations.

This role focuses on improving testing processes, strengthening quality standards and delivering a high-quality user experience through test planning, execution and defect management.

Formación

• Strong experience in software quality assurance and manual testing across web-based or business systems.
• Good understanding of functional, regression, exploratory and release testing.
• Experience reviewing system specifications, requirements and user stories to identify gaps, risks and edge cases.
• Experience creating, maintaining and executing test plans, scenarios, test cases and test scripts.
• Experience tracking and managing defects using test management or defect tracking tools.
• Strong analytical skills to investigate issues, reproduce defects and validate fixes.
• Experience supporting UAT, release verification or integration testing.
• Experience testing commercial cloud software.
• Experience working with third parties on integration testing.

Responsabilidades

• Take responsibility for ensuring quality, reliability and usability of software products.
• Collaborate with developers, product, support and implementation teams to support feature development and releases.
• Investigate customer issues and support issue investigations to improve testing processes and quality.

Conocimientos

QA testing

Manual testing

Functional testing

Regression testing

Exploratory testing

Release testing

Test planning

Test cases

Defect tracking

UAT support

TestMo

Integration testing

Herramientas

TestMo

Descripción del empleo

Senior QA Analyst

Altrincham (Hybrid Working)

Salary: £45k + Benefits

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior QA Analyst to join an established software organisation, taking responsibility for ensuring the quality, reliability and usability of its products. You will work closely with developers, product, support and implementation teams to support new feature development, version releases and customer issue investigations. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced QA professional to take a proactive role in improving testing processes, strengthening quality standards and helping deliver a reliable, high-quality user experience.

Skills & Experience

• Strong experience in software quality assurance and manual testing across web-based or business systems.
• A good understanding of functional, regression, exploratory and release testing.
• Experience reviewing system specifications, functional requirements and user stories to identify gaps, risks and edge cases.
• Experience creating, maintaining and executing test plans, scenarios, test cases and test scripts.
• Experience tracking and managing defects, bugs and enhancements using test management or defect tracking tools.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to investigate issues, reproduce defects and validate fixes.
• Experience supporting UAT, release verification, test environment coordination or integration testing.
• Experience working with TestMo.
• Experience testing commercial cloud software.
• Experience working with third parties on integration testing and external system access.

The successful candidate will play a key role in maintaining product quality, supporting release readiness and investigating customer-reported issues. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you will help identify risks early, improve testing practices and promote a proactive approach to quality. This is an excellent opportunity for a senior QA professional to take ownership of their workload, share knowledge with colleagues and influence continuous improvement without the need for formal line management responsibilities.