Test Analyst

Our OEM Client based in Castle Bromwich, Birmingham is searching for Test Analyst to join their team, Inside IR35. This is a 12-month contract position providing a minimum of 3 days on-site, increasing to 5 days during deployments / business needs.

Umbrella Pay Rate: £27.03 per hour

The Opportunity:

This is a fantastic opportunity to work on our client’s new Special Vehicles Operations (SVO) facility where you will get up-close and personal with their most prestigious products.

To enable our client to meet their ambitious digitalisation plans, a Business Systems Delivery team has been established as part of the development of a class leading, high performing and best practice Transformation Organisation. This team is the crucial bridge between technical delivery and local site or global adoption, acting as the mechanism to maximise the value and benefit of the manufacturing systems programmes within the business.

The team combines Business Change, Training and Testing expertise to deliver a high-quality end user deployment experience. Together, they are accountable for managing the change and deploying the manufacturing systems programme content across global footprint.

Working for the Test Manager, you will work within one of our site-based testing teams (although some cross site support may occasionally be necessary), supporting User Acceptance Testing and Production Acceptance Testing of deliveries impacting manufacturing execution, quality and reporting systems.

You will be required to coordinate activities within these test phases, ensuring all agreed business requirements are successfully delivered, and that appropriate governance and compliance is met.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitating governance readiness sessions to assess suitability to enter each test phase.
• Creating and executing appropriate manual UAT and PAT test scenarios and scripts
• Using the test management tooling (primarily HP ALM, but some Jira instances may be involved) to capture and evidence the UAT / PAT results.
• Recording and tracking defects to resolution through a standard process
• Engaging with stakeholders to support testing and report out on status.
• Input to, or creation of, Test Completion Reports

Essential Experience Required:

• A wealth of experience in a similar Test Analyst role, including experience of the above activities in UAT
• Experience in Manufacturing (Desirable)
• Working with different stakeholder groups, some of whom may not be too familiar with testing processes, value and benefits

Essential Skills Required:  

• Proficient at HP ALM and Jira (the latter Desirable)
• Knowledge of Manufacturing processes (Desirable)
• Strong analytical skills e.g. statistical analysis and data flow testing
• Waterfall or Agile delivery methodology
• A good standard of English with strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills
• Microsoft Office - PowerPoint, Word, Excel, SharePoint, etc.