Test Analyst

Xact Placements Limited; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Our client is an innovative software test consulting firm that specializes in providing testing services to a host of businesses and organizations. They proudly offer advisory services, strategic consulting, and practical solutions to ensure clients meet goals and vastly improve their quality of performance in what is a competitive market. This is achieved by assisting clients in many services such as Change Management, Test Automation, Testing Strategy Development, Test Service Implementation, and Test Process Improvement.

Within your role as Test Analyst, you will be a part of the testing excellence team that builds tests and execution required to successfully test a diverse set at all stages of development, from concept through post-launch. This would require the ability to develop ‘long-term vision’ testing skills while simultaneously being able to pivot to meet the immediate requirements of customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide guidance and understanding on the creation, maintenance, and improvement of QA tools.
• Organize and prioritize work requests from numerous teams in an appropriate manner.
• Develop and maintain documentation for team projects.
• Understand defects identified and run them through to conclusion, keeping all relevant stakeholders informed.
• Collect/expose data about tests to help QA prioritize test suites.
• Script and develop test cases within a framework.
• Congregate test data requirements and design the test scripts across environments.
• Have hands-on exposure to designing primarily for E2E tests and Integration testing.

Requirements:

• Knowledgeable with Test Management tools, for example HP QC, Jira, Zephyr, Xray, and Bugzilla.
• Experience in designing and testing test cases.
• Good understanding of numerous testing methodologies and categories.
• Experience in utilizing API testing tools.
• Ability to effectively communicate with Manager, Team Leader, fellow team members, and required stakeholders.
• Hold a good level of knowledge of enterprise application architecture and technologies including web, client-server, web services, and databases.
• Desired but not necessary to have experience in fintech testing.
• High level of data structure, analytical, and algorithm problem-solving skills would be a welcome addition.
• Experience of working within Agile + DevOps process management environments.
• Working in Agile - Scrum methodology will be an added advantage.