Test Analyst (up to 12 months Fixed term contract)

allpay Limited; England; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services company is seeking an experienced Test Analyst to join its quality assurance team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for analyzing business requirements, designing test cases, and ensuring thorough testing coverage. Strong skills in Azure DevOps and SQL are essential, along with attention to detail and problem-solving abilities. This role offers a competitive benefits package, including private healthcare and a company pension scheme.

Benefits

Defined contribution group pension scheme

Income protection

Private healthcare cover

Onsite gym

Qualifications

• Experience in designing and implementing test plans and cases.
• Confident working with SQL databases.
• Ability to track and report testing progress accurately.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business requirements to identify test conditions.
• Design and implement testing procedures.
• Recommend corrective action to software developers.

Skills

Manual and automated testing

Azure DevOps

SQL databases

Attention to detail

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Education

ISEB/ISTQB certification

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

About The Role

We now have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Test Analyst to join our quality assurance team on a fixed term contract basis.

Within this role you will be:

• Analysing Business Requirements, Functional Specifications, business processes and associated documentation to identify all test conditions and scenarios.
• Designing and implementing test cases, specifications, plans and procedures for testing all required conditions and ensuring suitable coverage and taking a risk based approach.
• Accurately tracking and reporting testing progress
• Preparing and maintaining accurate documentation for plans, procedures and report
• Liaising with the software developers to achieve defect resolution, recommending corrective action where appropriate
• Attend project meetings and provides technical expertise as required.

About You

To be successful in this role you will need to:

• Be creative in writing manual and automated test plans, cases and scripts coming up with new ways to test functionality
• have experience of using Azure DevOps or equivalent software testing tool
• have experience of executing automation tests, ideally from within DevOps/VSTS
• be confident working with SQL databases (ideally MS SQL) and have experience of querying and manipulating data.
• be well organised, have exceptional attention to detail and be self-motivated to ensure software releases are completed in a timely manner
• be able to build relationships with wider allpay teams
• have experience of working in a fast paced, demanding environment with changing priorities
• be driven to succeed with the ability to contribute into the wider IT testing space
• enjoy learning new technology and techniques and seeing how these can be implemented at allpay
• Ideally have a background in a financial services environment although this is not essential
• Ideally ISEB/ISTQB certified

About Us

People are at the heart of allpay and we reward our employee with a competitive benefits package which includes, a defined contribution group pension scheme, income protection, life assurance, an array of health and wellbeing options including private healthcare cover and an onsite gym. This is coupled with our excellent Learning and Development offering.

We are a company committed to Equal Opportunities.

All roles at allpay Limited are subject to successful background checks including a DBS and Credit Check.