Test Analyst

We are a Global Recruitment specialist that provides support to the clients across EMEA, APAC, US and Canada. We have an excellent job opportunity for you.

Job Title: Test Analyst

Duration: 6 months

Location: Telford with 2 days/week in office

Must hold an active SC Clearance

Job Description:

This is a Test Analyst role. SC clearance is mandatory and the role is on the client account.

The role will involve working in an Agile delivery team, writing a Test Approach document, carrying out Functional System Testing and Integration Testing, and supporting End to End (E2E) testing on one or more projects. Activities include analysing customer requirements and technical documentation, identifying test scenarios, writing test scripts, preparing test data, and running and recording tests.

This role requires an excellent understanding of test techniques and Risk Based Testing (RBT) in order to verify outcomes against expected results and record results for use in audit trails. You will be working closely with the delivery team and key stakeholders to achieve the required business objectives, demonstrating strong analytical and problem solving skills.

Responsibilities also include checking and assessing requirements, including the testability of designs; creating low level test plans and test scripts; setting up and managing test data; and providing regular status reports to the Delivery Manager. The role holder will also identify, raise and track project and product risks and issues, and contribute to test completion reporting.

The Test Analyst will be expected to communicate clearly and effectively within cross functional teams and produce high quality testing documentation, including Test Approach and Test Completion reports. Experience of both manual testing and test automation is desirable, with familiarity with tools such as Selenium, Postman and test management tools integrated with Jira (e.g. Zephyr) considered beneficial.

Essential / Desirable Experience and Skills:

• SC Clearance

• Experience of Talend as an ETL tool

• ETL experience

• Experience of testing Oracle RDS solutions

• Functional System Test experience

• Experience of test data preparation and creation

• Writing Test Approach and Test Completion reports

• Test tools (e.g. test automation, Postman)

• Test management tools (e.g. Zephyr)

• JIRA

• Confluence

• Agile methodology

• Data Warehouse and Data Marts

• Data Migration experience

If you are interested in this position and would like to learn more, please send through your CV and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible. Please note, candidates are often Shortlisted within 48 hours.