Test Analyst

About the Role

Discovery Life

Responsibilities

• Core A360 Team
• To ensure the Quality of our systems, by enforcing the appropriate test strategy and ensuring that the completed software meets the established standards, is fit for purpose and delivered without defects.
• Writing and executing test cases against stories, creating and maintaining tests in line with agreed testing standards and practices
• Documenting defects and making these visible to the teams and the Product Owner
• Providing feedback on user stories from a quality point of view and promoting bug prevention strategies, testability, accessibility and other QA concepts
• Collaborating with other testers, BAs, developers, designers and other experts across the business to deliver business and customer value
• Being proactively involved in the end-to-end lifecycle of digital features including code reviews, user stories grooming, requirements understanding
• Actively participating in all relevant Agile ceremonies and cadences

Requirements

• Experience with: Cucumber, API Testing, Selenium WebDriver, Continuous Integration & Performance testing
• Excellent working knowledge of test methodologies, writing test plans, creating test cases and debugging
• Extensive technical understanding across the digital domain
• A thorough understanding of testing/QA best practices
• Experience working in large, complex organisations
• Demonstrated experience in successfully contributing to development teams in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Understanding of common software failures and faults
• At least 3+ years experience in manual testing
• ISTQB Foundation Level Certificate
• IT Diploma or other relevant degree
• 1
• 2 years in automation experience
• Agile
• Continuous Integration
• Jira
• Confluence
• Quality Centre
• Postman and SoapUI

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of the domain (highly desirable)
• Knowledge of the system or application-under-test (highly desirable)
• Experience in a variety of testing efforts (desirable)