EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS:

Essential –

• Educated to Degree-level qualification or equivalent experience (S)
• Strong knowledge of robot framework, Selenium and other test frameworks - (BDD, cucumber) (S&I)
• API testing with Rest Assured or Postman (S&I)
• Performance testing with JMeter or equivalent (S&I)
• Great communication skills - you will be speaking with and presenting to your team members and the clients (I)
• Experience working in an Agile environment (S&I)
• Passionate about IT and new technologies (I)
• Work with GIT (commands, branching, merging) for version control. (S&I)
• Manage test execution using tools such as JIRA (S&I)

Desirable –

• ITIL Foundation desirable (S)
• ISTQB Test Foundation desirable (S)
• Certified Agile Tester Certification desirable (S)
• Experience of delivering digital projects is a benefit (S&I)
• Python or JavaScript (medium knowledge of reading and scripting) (S&I)
• Working knowledge of AWS nice to have (I)
• Experience with security testing (I)
• Medium knowledge of reading and scripting of SQL (S&I)
• Bash scripting (I)
• SQL knowledge (I)

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

JOB PURPOSE:

As a Quality assurance analyst, you will influence quality at all stages of the project, driving continuous improvement and getting involved with requirements, analysis, design, testing and release of enterprise level software applications. You will work to ensure the successful delivery of the major platform work items from different IT projects through robust integration and test processes.
The ideal candidate for this role will be able to demonstrate experience with Acceptance testing (Including UAT), Exploratory Testing and Automation of functional and non-functional requirements. You will need to have an aptitude to pick up new skills quickly and a desire to provide coaching and mentoring to other testers within the team and other areas of the organisation.
We particularly welcome female applicants as women are under-represented within Innovate UK in this type of role.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Services/API, Performance & Accessibility test frameworks with DevOps CI/CD
• Propose solutions to clients, when needed
• Manage, plan and perform exploratory and automation activities throughout the project
• Ensure that quality issues and defects are appropriately identified, documented, tracked, and resolved in a defect tracking system.
• Own and manage the release process to deliver the product effectively.
• Work closely with developers, Junior test engineers and cross functional scrum team members to increase the test coverage and reduce the test bottlenecks.
• Update and maintain regression suites as the products evolve
• Work collaboratively and effectively in a DevOps way of working environment.
• Provide feature demos to the stakeholders