Test Analyst Crewe, England

Health Shield Friendly Society Ltd

Full Time Crewe, England 30000 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

Health Shields Strategy:

Our purpose is to help people lead healthy, happy lives and our people are key in achieving this. Our objective therefore is to create an environment where our people are empowered, motivated, strive for excellence & conduct themselves with integrity.

About the role:

As a Test/UAT Analyst you will be working within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver Testing services for applications, systems and other changes and to manage User Acceptance Testing. This will include both external and internal facing applications and systems for staff and members. You will use your experience and knowledge as a Test/UAT Analyst to analyse requirements, execute testing and validate results to drive quality outcomes for Health Shield and to contribute to the continuous improvement of Health Shield’s applications and systems and testing standards and procedures.

Main Responsibilities:

Work within Agile Scrum, Kanban, and hybrid projects to assist in the delivery of quality software through the ownership of all test standards and capabilities
Establish a constructive and collaborative working relationship with business analysts, developers, architects, project managers, external development teams from suppliers and stakeholders
Work with IT and business teams to review and assess requirements and acceptance criteria, including providing estimates in the form of story points
Own, adhere to and enhance IT testing standards that are in place within the IT department
Proactively contribute to agile ceremonies with a view to communicate progress, challenges, and continuous improvement
Use testing techniques to develop Test Cases or exploratory test charters
Complete manual testing of systems, including but not limited to, front-end web applications, Restful APIs, SQL databases, mobile applications and all Salesforce solution artefacts
Create and run test automation for web applications, and Rest APIs in alignment with the automation strategy
Defect investigation, reporting, management, and retesting
Creation of test reports and documentation that supports the future testing of systems
Develop and support UAT execution plans and activities
Manage UAT activities and co-ordinate UAT reporting with internal and external parties

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

At least several years hands on experience in a Test/UAT Analyst role
Working within a multi-disciplinary development team to deliver software projects using agile Scrum and/or Kanban mythologies
Experience with Confluence and Jira toolsets
Experience with automated testing toolsets
Experience in a Salesforce environment
Experience working with outsourcers and 3rd-party organisations
Working with a small team of Testers and Developers
Working with project and PMO teams
The ability to understand and analyse complex systems and processes through working closely with develops, technical documents or requirements
Effective and efficient test design
Performing functional, non-functional, regression, system, integration and UAT Testing
Mobile application, web application, browser, system and device testing
· Demonstrable experience of continuous improvement
· Excellent interpersonal skills, and the ability to use diplomacy and advocacy skills

Nice to Have:

ISEB or BCS/ISTQB certifications
Restful API testing using Postman or a similar tool
Experience of testing Salesforce applications, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Dynamics Nav, CRM 2015, integration toolsets
Web and API automation experience including but not limited to Selenium IDE/Webdriver and Postman/Newman
Knowledge or use of Gherkin/Cucumber/Spec flow
Knowledge or experience of using Ghost Inspector
Mobile or compatibility testing using BrowserStack or a similar tool
Lightning, Vlocity, Heroku, T-SQL / Java / JSON / XML / CSS/ XPath
Confluence and Jira toolsets
Azure DevOps / GIT
Visual Studio Code
Experience using browser integrated developer tools

Benefits:

Free car parking at Head Office
Free electric hook up for electric cars at Head Office
Corporate membership of the Health Shield medical cash plan after successful completion of probation
28 days annual leave, bank holidays and SMART holiday scheme
Free on site gym
Free refreshments (tea, coffee, juice etc.)
Training and development support
Wellbeing initiatives
Salary sacrifice schemes

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applicants from all sections of the community.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £30,000.00 per year

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