Test Analyst- Senior London, England

Gentrack

Full Time London, England 37416 - 41668 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

The Company

The global pace of change is accelerating, and utilities need to rebuild for a more sustainable future. Gentrack provides utilities across the world with market leading products and services to drive their transformation. Working with some of the world’s biggest energy and water companies, as well as innovative challenger brands, we’re helping companies reshape what it means to be a utilities business. We are driven by our passion to create positive impact. That is why utilities rely on us to manage complexity, deliver exceptional customer experiences, and secure profits. Together, we are renewing utilities.

Our Values and Culture

Colleagues at Gentrack are one close team of passionate people who want to drive change through technology and believe in making a difference. Our values drive decisions and how we interact and communicate with customers, partners and each other. Our core values are:

Respect for the planet
Respect for our customers
Respect for each other

We are looking for a SENIOR TEST ANALYST. Velocity is our principal application for supporting customer engagement and billing, for water suppliers. It interacts using Dataflows via various adapters to industry data management and service providers.

As a Gentrack Test Analyst at Senior level, you’ll provide Quality Assurance in development of the Velocity water solution.

To support and contribute to the development of test and quality practices for Gentrack by actively contributing, independently or collaborating as part of a cross functional project team, Product owners and Customer Success Managers, across core and customer projects. Operating within best practice is essential to this role, as is a team mind-set.

At a Senior level, you have some experience under your belt and are familiar with the documentation needs in a product development environment. You will need to be a self-starter and capable of assessing the gaps in our technical writing and put a plan in place to address these.

Key responsibilities

Actively contributing to the refinement of product development Backlog and Sprint planning,
Ensuring task planning activities fit well to the actual work required to complete a story
Reviewing Change Requests/User Stories/Acceptance Criteria,
Supporting test activities, test scope and coverage, identification of test conditions, participating and contributing in task estimation
Design and execute appropriate test cases
Progress updates in the daily stand-ups and retrospectives.
Extending, maintaining and improving test validity across changing product landscape
Defect and Bug reporting defects adhering to internal defect guidelines,
Periodic reporting of progress for internal/external audiences, and retesting of any defect fixes.
Continuing to contribute to implementing and improving the processes, and practices

Experience required

5+ year's experience in a Commercial Software Development environment,
Utility/Energy/Water supplier industry experiences eg with Customer service requests and billing operations(desired)
Working knowledge of STLC, Testing in Agile practices
Application testing (UI and Api) through System, UAT, and Operational Acceptance test phases,
Working knowledge of Automated testing through UI and APIs
Being proficient in both functional and some non-functional areas of testing
Proficient in Transaction Sql, and Enterprise database operations
Software testing Foundation through ISTQB, CAST or TAU

Desirable

Software testing Practitioner certification through ISTQB, CAST or TAU
Tools; Jira, Test Management eg TestRail, Xray. Postman,
Experience of development of automation tests and tools,
Experience of working with Cloud based Solutions or Architecture
Test in development and automation through the development process.
Selenium (driver and library), Python language
Working knowledge of OO development language (eg Java, C#),
Development language certifications (Java, C#) through Oracle or Microsoft
SDLC tools; Git or Bitbucket,
Cloud (eg AWS) pipeline deployment and test

Gentrack recognise the value a diverse and inclusive workplace brings and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds, unfortunately Visa sponsorship is not available at this time.