Reference: TQ24252136413
Vacancy: 2
Job title: Senior Quality Analyst
Location: Leicester
Job Purpose:
TESTQ Technologies is an IT services and solutions company whose offerings spans over variety of industry sectors with strong technical, domain and process expertise helping clients grow their businesses and decrease operational costs on continuous basis in an ever-changing business environment.
This opportunity is in the solution design and development arena for Senior Quality Analyst who will play a major role with the technical design and development of the company’s technical offerings. The role is based at our Leicester office with occasional assignments at client locations.

Job Description (Main Duties and Responsibilities):

• Lead end-to-end testing efforts for large-scale software projects, ensuring high-quality deliverables on time and within budget.
• Develop and execute manual and automated test plans, cases, and scripts across various platforms and devices.
• Perform functional, regression, integration, system, performance, and security testing to ensure the software meets required specifications.
• Mentor and guide junior QA team members, providing technical leadership and support.
• Collaborate with development, product management, and other teams to understand requirements and identify quality assurance challenges.
• Drive improvements in the overall QA process and tools, ensuring consistency and best practices across all projects.
• Lead defect tracking, reporting, and management, ensuring issues are identified, resolved, and communicated effectively.
• Develop and implement testing metrics and reports to track progress, identify bottlenecks, and improve testing processes.
• Review and evaluate software requirements to ensure testable and verifiable outcomes.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, tools, and technologies, and continuously improve testing methodologies.

Key Skills, Qualifications and Experience Needed [The candidate must demonstrate these in all stages of assessment]

• 10+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, with significant experience in senior roles and leading testing teams.
• Deep knowledge of both manual and automated testing processes and tools.
• Strong experience with automation frameworks and tools such as Selenium, QTP, JUnit, TestNG, or similar.
• Expertise in using testing tools such as JIRA, ALM, Jenkins, Git, and other related software.
• Experience in performance and load testing using tools like JMeter, LoadRunner, or similar.
• Strong knowledge of systems - IPAS, CADIS Markit EDM.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, or JavaScript for test automation scripting.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and their integration with automated testing to ensure continuous delivery of quality software.
• Proficient in defect management practices using tools such as JIRA, Bugzilla, or similar.
• Advanced knowledge of automated testing (Testpartner, QARun & QADirector)
• Advanced knowledge of performance testing (QALoad, Server Vantage, Network Vantage).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and present findings clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify root causes of issues and collaborate on solutions.
• Experience in different languages and platforms (Datastage, SAS models, C++, C#, VB. NET, java 2, Oracle, Teradata, Markit EDM Google Cloud Big Query, and SQL).
• Knowledge of SQL and databases using TOAD & SQL plus, Google Bigquery etc., along with data warehouse and enterprise data management systems such as google cloud platform, Teradata, Hive and Oracle.
• Familiarity with performance tuning and optimizing testing scripts for faster execution.
• ISTQB or similar industry-recognized QA certification.

Other Key skills:

• Good analytical and Problem-solving skills
• Good communication skills
• A thorough approach and Self starter
• Focus on quality and delivery
• Working together in teams.
• Leadership and effective decision making.
• Flexible Attitude
• Excellent customer service

Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree or above in the UK or Equivalent.
Salary: GBP 40000 to 55000 per annum
Published Date: 03-March-2025
Closing Date: 02-April-2025
Evaluation: CV Review, Technical Test, Personal and Technical Interview and References
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent [Part time and Fixed Term option is available]
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £40,000.00-£55,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Education:

• Bachelor’s (preferred)

Experience:

• Quality Assurance: 10 years (preferred)

Language:

• English (preferred)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (preferred)

Application deadline: 02/04/2025
Reference ID: TQ2425213641

• Lead end-to-end testing efforts for large-scale software projects, ensuring high-quality deliverables on time and within budget.
• Develop and execute manual and automated test plans, cases, and scripts across various platforms and devices.
• Perform functional, regression, integration, system, performance, and security testing to ensure the software meets required specifications.
• Mentor and guide junior QA team members, providing technical leadership and support.
• Collaborate with development, product management, and other teams to understand requirements and identify quality assurance challenges.
• Drive improvements in the overall QA process and tools, ensuring consistency and best practices across all projects.
• Lead defect tracking, reporting, and management, ensuring issues are identified, resolved, and communicated effectively.
• Develop and implement testing metrics and reports to track progress, identify bottlenecks, and improve testing processes.
• Review and evaluate software requirements to ensure testable and verifiable outcomes.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, tools, and technologies, and continuously improve testing methodologies