Test Analyst

Lifetime; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Test Analyst to support software testing strategies. The role involves developing testing plans, collaborating with teams, and ensuring quality delivery. Ideal candidates should have strong analytical skills, technical testing experience, and the ability to work independently. Excellent benefits including generous holiday, flexible hours, and health services are offered.

Benefits

25 days' holiday rising with service

Holiday purchase scheme

Enhanced Pension

Access to Smart Health services

Health Cash Plan

Flexible working hours

Enhanced Maternity/Parental leave

Reward programme and recognition

Qualifications

• Experience working with stakeholders to document test cases.
• Confident in running projects independently.
• Strong eye for detail, capable of identifying root causes.

Responsibilities

• Develop testing plans for data products and pipelines.
• Work with development team to implement test automation.
• Support root cause analysis of defects.

Skills

Business analysis

Attention to detail

Team Player

Technical testing experience

Job description

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Our Skilltech team are searching for aTest Analyst to be responsible for supporting the test strategy for our software platform and pipelines. Working within the development team you will analyse, execute, and manage testing requirements to ensure that our products are delivered to the highest quality and meet business need.

You will work collaboratively with our support and customer success teams to understand what our business customers need and will apply those requirements into testing plans and strategies.

What will you be doing?

• Develop testing plans for our data products and pipelines (including Integration Testing, Functional Testing, Non-Functional Testing and User Acceptance Testing).
• Designing test guidelines and standards for our team.
• Work with the development team to implement test automation– setting up test scripts, test data and automation test frameworks.
• Support root cause analysis of defects and recommend resolution of system issues.
• Identify test defects and recommend appropriate solutions for issues.

What will you bring to the role?

• Business analysis – you have experience of working collaboratively with stakeholders to document test cases and scenarios from their business requirements.
• Independent – you won’t be micro-managed, so you’ll be confident taking a project and running with it
• Attention to detail – you have a strong eye for detail and have experience of chasing down bugs to identify the root causes of issues
• A Team Player – data is a team sport and you work well with others, can argue your point of view and make suitable compromises
• Technical – you’ll have experience of testing software applications, so are confident with SQL queries scripting automated test routines

Giving back to you – our Group Benefits

• 25 days' holiday rising with service and your birthday off.
• Holiday purchase scheme for those life changing trips and moments.
• Long service reward and recognition
• Enhanced Pension
• Group Life Assurance – 3 x Annual salary
• Unlimited access to six Smart Health services including a 24/7 virtual GP
• Health Cash Plan
• Access to curated wellbeing content and our Employee Assistance Programme
• To support your work/life balance we give you the opportunity of flexibility within our core working hours (9.00 – 5.30).
• Enhanced Maternity/Shared Parental and Adoption packages leave
• A reward programme and recognition programme and annual awards event

Who are Lifetime Training?

Lifetime Training is part of the Lifetime Training Group. As a Group we are passionate about learning and creating life changing opportunities for our learners. We are made up of four unique businesses, two of which focus on apprentice training across a range of professions, one that focusses on awarding qualifications, and one which develops the awarding software.

We are at the forefront of innovative training and awarding and as a larger group network we can offer a broad range of development opportunities, great benefits and a people focussed reward and recognition offering

At Lifetime Training Group, we are committed to broadening the diversity of our workforce and creating a sense of belonging for all. In this way we will better represent our learners and partners to greater understand and fulfil their needs.

Your experience is invaluable to us, and we are committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable recruitment environment for all candidates. We welcome any feedback on how we can enhance our approach to an inclusive process, please feel free to share your ideas with us here: