Test Analyst

Responsibilities

• Play a key role in enabling the team to confidently measure, deliver and improve quality in delivering products.
• Apply technical knowledge and expertise to influence/define the test approach to mitigate the risk of change.
• Take an active part in delivering team commitments and embrace continuous improvement across the wider team.
• Ensure the quality of tasks, services and information provided by your team through the quality of your own work and the support you provide to others.
• Apply best practice and contribute to improvements and innovation in technologies/practices within your team, e.g. efficiency in the development process or improved customer experience.
• Solicit feedback to clarify/understand requirements.
• Translate business requirements into clearly defined test scenarios to support development.
• Provide continual feedback on product quality to the team and stakeholders to enable them to make informed decisions.
• Check that software meets expected behaviors and explore for additional risks.
• Provide informal guidance and share knowledge with colleagues to enable them to contribute to the team’s objectives. Share knowledge with the wider community.
• Communicate effectively with a variety of technical and non-technical audiences to share knowledge and ideas; provide updates; influence; challenge; and take on feedback.

Requirements

• Experience of using test design techniques and of performing and applying risk analysis to identify test types and test coverage.
• Experience of exploratory testing – defining test charters to give direction and purpose, understanding what information to capture and providing feedback to team on completion.
• Experience of working in a development environment, ideally within an enterprise context.
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle, software architecture and technologies.
• A curious, observant and intuitive explorer capable of the setup, exercise and checking of test scenarios against the system-under-test.
• Basic scripting, database query, coding skills, understanding of test environments, quality gateways and the route to production.
• Tertiary qualification in Computer Science or related discipline is preferred.
• Experience of financial services, share registry or employee share plan industries is desirable.
• Strong work ethic and able to deal with sometimes conflicting priorities.

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