Senior Quality Analyst - Automation

Job Description: Our client is looking for a Senior Quality Analyst to join their team.

Must Have Primary Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• Five years of experience in software testing
• Extensive hands-on experience executing Test Scripts and documenting outcomes
• Experience documenting test strategies, test plans, and test cases, tracing test cases to requirements
• Expertise with requirements gathering, documentation, mapping, UAT Testing, and Test Scripting
• Experience implementing test automation and performance testing
• Clear understanding and knowledge of QM Concepts, Methodologies, and Testing Techniques
• Ability to translate User stories into functional and non-functional requirements and test artifacts
• Experience in the public sector or higher education sector would be much preferred.

Nice To Have Secondary Skills:

• Experience with Prince2 Project Management.
• Working with a Privacy Officer and Information Security Officer.

Proven Experience In:

• Work closely with the project team to ensure test cases and test scripts are written as required
• Communicate regularly with testers to review progress, escalating issues to the Project Manager
• Preparing and updating defect and issue reports
• Preparing and updating software quality metrics reports
• Contributing to project weekly status reports
• Responsible for the final software quality report
• Creating a test calendar and keeping it updated
• Recommendations for User Acceptance Testing
• Weekly status report detailing tasks completed during the week, tasks scheduled for the upcoming week, estimated effort to complete, and backlog items
• Weekly timesheet submission
• Leading/facilitating workshops with project teams and stakeholders, including senior executives
• Leading stakeholder communications, managing stakeholder expectations

Industry experience required: Software Development Company