Senior Test Analyst | Andover, UK
Posted: Oct 19, 2020 10:03:26 AM
“The Senior Test Analyst, will work within agile teams, in Andover and globally, to ensure the quality of the platform continues to exceed customer expectations”
Package and Benefits:
- Competitive annual salary
- 24 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
- 4% pension contribution
- Life assurance x4
- Private medical insurance
- Personal and professional development opportunities
- Friendly working environment
Attributes and Experience Required:
- Degree in a Technical or Scientific discipline; preferably software relevant. Non degree holders should still apply provided they have equivalent professional experience
- Minimum 5 year experience in manual Software Testing and Automated Testing
- Experience in UI test automation using tools, for example Selenium, Web Driver or Katalon Studio
- Experience using BDD frameworks such as Cucumber or Fitnesse. Being able to write gluecode in Java would be an advantage
- Experience creating test suites that can run in continuous integration pipelines, exposure to creating/maintaining Bamboo or Jenkins would be a distinct advantage
- Ability to analyze requirements both from a testing and end user point of view to derive test scenarios and test cases
- Ability to investigate potential defects to determine the root cause and direct the code engineers to the defective component
- Highly capable in working in a team; self-motivated and can prioritize workload
- Committed to continued professional development. Will be able to describe the latest tools and techniques in the Software testing industry; will be able to describe how new tools and testing approaches are learnt
- Experience work with international teams using collaboration tools such as JIRA, BitBucket, Slack, Zoom and Confluence
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Desirable: Experience of performance testing and accessibility testing
- Work and collaborate with Agile team to ensure the quality of product and for functional and technical impact analysis and identify regression scope. Undertaking manual and automated testing as necessary
- Design and develop repeatable, data-driven automated test script using Katalon Studio and API automation test scripts for products
- Maintain automated test suites to ensure they are reliable and execute on the agreed cadence
- Leading and participating in the maintenance and versioning of test scripts, including the supervision of other test engineers on a day to day basis
- Determine test strategy, i.e. when manual or automated testing is appropriate
- Support execution of automated scripts, analyze the automation failures and report bugs
- Root cause analysis for the bug and communicating the technical details to developers and execute web applications performance testing suites
- Explore, research about internationally recognized Software Testing tools/process in the market and help team to evolve accordingly
- Provide automation testing related expertise and solutions to other team members and involved in reviewing other team members’ work
