Test Analyst Student App

Section: Service Delivery

Location: 1 Guildhall Square

Salary: £36,130 to £44,128 per annum

Full Time Fixed Term for 24 months

Closing Date: Monday 12 May 2025

This is an exceptional time to be joining the University of Southampton to help support quality delivery of a new Student App designed to provide a transformational digital mobile student experience. The role sits within the University’s IT department, iSolutions. The dynamic and agile Student App project team is an exciting group working to produce a compelling product for the University student community.

About The Role

This is a key role in support of quality delivery of the Student App product. Providing technical test services within an agile software delivery and maintenance lifecycle, the role offers the test professional the opportunity to validate product quality assurance at all stages of development and operation.

The Student App project team have the mandate to deliver transformational solutions & work with positive, focused attitudes.

What You’ll Do

1. Take responsibility for all aspects of testing across the Student App delivery project, including technical system and integration testing and user acceptance testing (UAT). Provide test capabilities which cover both functional and non-functional application requirements.
2. Ensure testing standards are met throughout development, configuration, and release stages.
3. Collaborate with key stakeholders within iSolutions and across the wider university to define and schedule testing capabilities and requirements.
4. Develop functional test automation capabilities and define test automation strategy.
5. Develop relationships with external partners to improve response to non-functional test demand.
6. Build and maintain test progress reporting against key performance indicators.

What You’ll Bring

1. Designing and implementing testing strategies and standards.
2. Security of information and data within test environments.
3. Ability to articulate test and quality assurance requirements, often at a technical level, directly to key stakeholders.
4. Ability to prioritise workload, work well under pressure and manage stakeholder and institutional expectations.
5. Practical experience planning and progressing test activities within professional guidelines and/or organisational policy.
6. Applying fundamental functional and non-functional test strategies to meet system, system integration, and user acceptance testing demands.
7. Experience of DevOps practices and culture.
8. Achieved a minimum of ISTQB/ISEB Foundation Level Certification.
9. Experience designing and implementing test regimes while working in a strategic cloud first environment.

The University of Southampton is a research-driven institution, home to some of the world’s leading minds, expanding our knowledge and passing it on to future generations. iSolutions is the University’s IT support service whose 230+ staff support the delivery of the University’s research and education activities as well as the usual business operations. We would love you to join us and help change the world for the better.

The University of Southampton promotes a healthy work-life balance with generous holiday allowance of 30 days plus statutory bank holidays and university closure days, defined benefit pension, flexi-time and flexible working patterns, generous parental leave and childcare provision. For more information on our benefits, please visit our human resources pages.

Further Details

As a university we aim to create an environment where everyone can thrive and are proactive in fostering a culture of inclusion, respect and equality of opportunity. We believe that we can only truly meet our objectives if we are reflective of society, so we are passionate about creating a working environment in which you are free to bring your whole self to work. With a generous holiday allowance as well as additional university closure days, we are committed to supporting our staff and students and open to a flexible working approach.

Apply by 11.59 pm GMT on the closing date. For assistance contact Recruitment quoting the job number.