Junior Test Analyst Wellingborough, England
Job description
Salary:
£35,000- £45,000
Closing date:
Ongoing
Location:
Northampton (Wellingborough)
Are you a Junior Test Analyst looking for your next career move?
An opportunity to join a forward-thinking PE backed commercial group of companies with a multi-year roadmap and portfolio of projects to deliver across a broad range of products.
Working closely with the Test Manager, Business Analysts and Developers, you will create both automated and manual test scripts to ensure the successful delivery of high-quality projects and change.
The Role
This role will suit a forward thinking and detail oriented candidate who is passionate about getting into the Software Testing industry! Below is a list of skills and responsibilities that you will be supported with in your growth throughout the role.
As the Test Analyst you will be responsible for:
- Test Execution (within sprints):
- Preparation and execution of both Automated and Manual test scripts
- Exploratory and regression testing of development work
- Identifying defect trends and problem area within the system
- Strategy:
- Identify test conditions and develop automated test cases and test
- Identify test conditions and develop manual test cases and test
- Analyse functional and non-functional requirements for each project
- Maintain the regression pack
- Analysis:
- Identifying defect trends and problem area within the system
- Early involvement in story refinement – Helping to define testable user stories
- Communication:
- Contributing to agile ceremonies
- Regular and consistent feedback to the Test Manager to ensure work is progressing to schedule
- Raise defects where necessary and ensure test evidence is supplied to the development team
- Ability to communicate with both the development team and business users
The Person
We are looking for someone who can roll their sleeves up and ‘dig in’ with the rest of the team. Have a keen eye for detail and be able to work as a team and individually. Have the ability and drive to prioritise their work in a fast-paced delivering team. In addition, the successful candidate should have experience of working in:
- Jira/Confluence
- Automation suites (desirable, but not essential)
- Scrum Software Development Lifecycle
