Senior QA Lead: Quality Strategy & Automation

Allwyn UK; Watford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Bonus Scheme

Matched pension contributions up to 8.

26 days annual leave + 2 Life Days

Private health cover

Private medical

Income protection

Flexible benefits

Enhanced family leave

Wellness allowance

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Allwyn is seeking a Senior Quality Analyst to join its Digital Test team. You will champion quality across the software lifecycle, collaborate with Product, Engineering, Architecture and Delivery teams, and lead testing efforts from requirements to delivery.

You will define risk-based testing strategies, drive continuous improvement, and mentor other analysts, with opportunities to expand automation across digital applications and APIs.

Qualifications

• Essential: Senior QA/Test Analyst with risk-based and exploratory testing.
• Experience creating test strategies, plans, cases and reports.
• Solid understanding of Agile delivery and SDLC.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver risk-based testing strategies and exploratory testing.
• Review requirements, designs and solutions to identify quality risks early.
• Lead test planning, analysis, execution and reporting activities.
• Investigate defects and support root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product and Delivery teams to improve quality outcomes.
• Identify opportunities to expand automation and improve testing efficiency.
• Provide testing estimates, risk assessments and progress updates.
• Mentor other Quality Analysts and contribute to testing best practices.

Skills

Senior QA/Test Analyst

Risk-based testing

Exploratory testing

Test strategies

Agile / SDLC

API testing

Defect management

Postman

Jira

TestRail

BrowserStack

Splunk

CI/CD understanding

Log analysis

JSON/REST/GraphQL

Education

ISTQB Foundation Certification

Tools

Postman

Jira

TestRail

BrowserStack

Splunk

Job description

Allwyn is seeking a Senior Quality Analyst to join its Digital Test team. You will champion quality across the software lifecycle, collaborate with Product, Engineering, Architecture and Delivery teams, and lead testing efforts from requirements to delivery.

You will define risk-based testing strategies, drive continuous improvement, and mentor other analysts, with opportunities to expand automation across digital applications and APIs.