Senior Test Analyst

Senior Test Analyst Newquay Permanent Jobline Staffing is recruiting for a permanent Senior Test Analyst on behalf of a large-scale Education Tech hub in Cornwall. As a Senior Test Analyst, you will work within a dynamic business and a multi-disciplined team covering a vast array of systems and technologies under test and become a key driver in the improvement of the QA mission and drive the wider understanding of Software Training. Responsibilities include: Creation and maintenance of test documentation for a variety of project and change deliverables. Assist in the governance of all test activities through the life-cycle of the projects Execute all types of functional testing and maintain the scripts during the test phases. Provide mentoring and support to test analysts within the team To drive excellence across IT Solutions and Service Management as a whole. To feed into the Test process Improvement review per project and within the QA team. Skills/experience required: Essential: Experience operating in a dedicated software tester role within multiple programmes/project of work. Excellent leadership skills and the ability to influence, motivate and inspire. Ability to plan, design, execute and report upon all levels of testing – DEV, SIT, UAT, OAT and Prod. Ability to lead on Bug Management and Triage activities. Comfortable leading stakeholders and non-technical communities Experience of SDLC methodologies and the ability to work within agile, iterative, waterfall. Experience of working with enterprise scale applications in the cloud or locally hosted. Experience working with test management tools such as JIRA, ADO, ALM utilising Kanban. Experience working with dedicated test environments and an understanding of the promotion strategy between them. Ability to identify and manage priorities. Desired: Experience of HE applications e.g. SITS, Moodle, Timetabling, etc. Formal IT qualifications (ITIL, ISTQB, etc) of foundation or above. Experience of managing test environments (VM ware, Azure, VDI, SV). Knowledge of automation technologies (Selenium, UFT, Cucumber). Knowledge of performance test technologies (JMeter, LoadRunner, NEOLoad, BlazeMeter, LoadRunner). Knowledge of project management methodologies. Direct involvement in implementing and governing testing processes and best practice. Good knowledge of all testing levels within Functional and Non-Functional testing disciplines. Offer details: 25 days holiday per annum 10% discretionary bonus Flexible working Contributory pension scheme Modern, comfortable offices a mere 10 minutes from the beach – plus much more If you are interested in the above and match the criteria required please contact Cameron Wallace or apply today. If you do not hear back from us within 7 days please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Jobline Staffing is an Equal Opportunities employer. Entitlement to work in the UK is essential. This job was originally posted as www.totaljobs.com/job/89758988