IT Test Analyst

Full Time - Perm

Located in Deeside

£30,000 DOE

MON -FRI

An exciting opportunity has arisen within our established clients' IT Team for an IT Test Analyst.

Purpose of the Role

As a business, they are continually looking to improve how to do things, this includes technology enhancements to improve and simplify business processes through delivering high-quality IT applications written by our .Net development team. As with all technology enhancements, it is essential that they ensure hardware and software are thoroughly tested prior to release.

Testing is an important role in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) contributing to the successful delivery of quality IT solutions.

Once a project reaches a certain stage of development, the role of IT Tester is to support the project team ensuring functionality is working as required and does not break anything else. You will provide testing support for a variety of applications.

Thorough testing helps the design process and ensures a faultless solution at every stage of development. You will work closely with the project team including business stakeholders, developers, business analysts and project managers, allowing you to understand what the solution is meant to do, who within the business will use it and its key purpose and features. As an IT Tester, you will be responsible for a variety of exploratory, unit, functional and integration testing.

Duties and Key Accountabilities

* Attending project workshops, meetings, sprint reviews and system demos

* Working with business stakeholders, developers and the BA team to understand business/project requirements

* Preparation of functional and scenario test cases including expected outcomes.

* Plan and execute manual test cases following iterative software releases.

* During test execution, ensure application behaviour meets requirements specification.

* Complete data integrity checks.

* Record test results, identify and analyse anomalies and where necessary raise and track defects with the development team.

* Working closely with the project team and developers to report and track testing progress.

* Complete testing iterations within agreed deadlines.

* Perform regression testing to ensure a software release has no detrimental impact to system functionality.

* Create, manage, and maintain testing documentation for complete regression testing and to support user testing.

* Where appropriate support business stakeholders with UAT

* Where necessary offer support during transitional “go live” stage of projects

Hours and environment

General hours of work will be Monday to Friday 09:00 – 17:00 however this may vary due to the nature of project demands and deadlines.

Essential Criteria

* Strong analytical skills

* Highly self-motivated and well-organized. Ability to manage workloads effectively.

* Good listening skills, paying attention during meetings and discussions.

* Ability to be vigilant and inquisitive with good attention to detail.

* Logical thinking and problem-solving ability

* Excellent interpersonal communication & influencing skills.

* Ability and willingness to work well in a team and independently.

* Understanding of workflows and process flow diagrams

* A natural curiosity and desire to succeed and drive for results

* The ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.

* Flexible & adaptable in the face of changing priorities or circumstances.

* Confident in working with internal and external teams.

* Willingness to support others.

* Ability to multi-task and test on varying platforms.

* Practiced in sharing knowledge and collaborating with colleagues.

Desirable criteria

Prior testing experience including the ability to produce well-written test cases, and execute and record accurate test results.

Knowledge and/or expertise in agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban

Knowledge and/or expertise using MS DevOps (Test Plans, User Stories, Kanban Board)

Experience testing web applications.

Proficient in cross-browser, mobile and device testing would be advantageous.

Office productivity skills are desirable, MS office, Excel, Visio etc.

Understanding/experience of test automation.

Experience of Postman or Cypress would be advantageous.

Knowledge and/or expertise in DB interrogation including MS SQL would be advantageous.

Testing Qualifications such as ISTQB would be advantageous.

Excellent benefits, including 25 days holiday plus B/H and free parking

Salary £28,000 - £30,000 DOE

Horizon Recruitment Solutions Ltd is an equal opportunity employer and is acting as a recruitment agency in relation to this vacancy