Testing Analyst

Join us as a Testing Analyst

• We’ll look to you to support testing activities to agreed timescales, cost and quality, to prove that solutions satisfy customer needs and business operating principles
• You’ll be supporting the delivery of testing projects, identifying impact and managing resulting change
• Joining a collaborative team, you can expect great visibility for you and your work as you work with a range of key stakeholders
• We're offering this role at senior analyst level

What you'll do

As a Testing Analyst, you’ll be supporting the completion of system integration, user acceptance and regression testing within release schedule deadlines, and escalating issues identified during testing to make sure adequate resolution or workaround is implemented.

You’ll be proactively identifying areas for improvement, escalating through appropriate governance routes and working with others to ensure fit for purpose, client centric solutions. We’ll look to you to provide a technical point of reference to the department on a day-to-day basis, and act as the first point of contact on key issues with associated internal and external businesses.

Day-to-day, you’ll be:

• Providing support in highlighting all software, including non functional requirements and hardware requirements and making sure that the test environment is fit for purpose through smoke or sanity testing
• Understanding and analysing testing requirements, working with colleagues to plan and manage the work necessary to perform and monitor testing for projects
• Reviewing, analysing and providing feedback on project documents to aid the creation of test plans, test schedule and test strategy
• Supporting the production of test plans to detail the approach to the planning and execution of tests for a specific phase of testing aligning to the test strategy
• Establishing and building relationships to facilitate the achievement of goals and support the momentum of projects throughout the project lifecycle

The skills you'll need

To succeed in this role, you’ll need at least two years of experience in testing design, planning and execution, along with proven application of testing methodologies. You’ll need organisational skills and certification in software testing.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• Experience in functional testing, web UI Testing, payment protocols, message formats and transaction flows
• Experience in non functional testing-load, volume, stress, security, accessibility, compatibility, penetration and back-out
• Experience of writing SQL queries including joining data from multiple tables, databases and parameter queries
• The ability to gather and interpret information from a range of different sources, and in a number of different ways