QA Analyst

Cognibox; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000

Job description

QA Analyst

Department: Technology & Product

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Cardiff, UK

Reporting To: Dynamics Development Manager

Description

Building innovative solutions; enabling safer workplaces for everyone.

We’ll create a safer working world, building software to support a global network of responsible buyers, suppliers and partners.

Today, at Alcumus we take the pain out of compliance for over 50,000 organisations globally, helping them protect their people, their operations, and the planet.

Keeping our network of hiring clients, suppliers, and contractors compliant with the standards that matter most, from health and safety and sustainability to ethical behaviour by building best in class solutions.

The tech we build today, will create a better tomorrow.

The QA Analyst role holds responsibility for utilising an appropriate testing methodology, analysing testing requirements as the basis for developing testing scripts/scenarios to be executed on a project and working in conjunction with the application development effort, as per specifications, on time and within budget.

What that means day to day

• Technical expertise in ensuring the delivery of intuitive, high quality and error free code in relevant language/platform.
• Reviewing requirements and design documents to determine testing effort required.
• Providing resource estimates for all testing phases of the release.
• Production of overall test scripts, test strategies and test plans.
• Managing the integration testing of releases, reporting progress using appropriate test metrics.
• Managing the regression testing of releases.
• Design testing scenarios and test cases that will demonstrate conformance to all functional and non-functional requirements.
• Execute tasks related to the production of the test plans, test cases, test scripts and test data.
• Analyse the results of the testing process and recommend solutions.
• Define, identify, collect and organise detailed information relating to testing requirements.
• Interact with the project team to gain an understanding of the business environment, technical context, and conformance criteria.
• Understand and use appropriate automated testing processes and tools.
• Stay current on established tools, techniques, and technologies.
• Maintain security, integrity, and business continuity controls and documents.
• To participate in the constant development of providing a quality service to our clients.

What you’ll need to be successful

Essential:

• Systems testing experience in a software development environment.
• Experience of planning and preparation of testing activities.
• Experience of development of test specifications.
• Self-evaluation and measuring to ensure continued improvement.
• Ability to maintain and develop customer and key stakeholder relationships.
• Ability to prioritise and work within deadlines.
• Good organisational skills.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Self-motivated.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills.

What you'll get in return

Alcumus has a hybrid workplace policy, where you will work from the office 3 days per week. We want you to be able to do your best work here. We emphasize providing many ways to support our team to do their best work and below are some of the perks and benefits we offer:

Personal Health & Wellbeing / Benefits

• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Generous annual leave
• Healthcare Plan
• Annual Giving Day – an extra day to give back to yourself or your community
• Cycle-to-work Scheme

Future Planning

• Pension scheme with employer contributions
• Life Assurance – 3X base salary
• Rewards Program – access to discounts and cashback
• LinkedIn Learning License for upskilling & development

Interested but don’t feel you meet all the requirements?

Our recruitment team assesses and reviews all applications against the role and business needs. We believe in people having transferable and soft skills and want you to know that we do consider where an individual might not meet all the criteria, but have the aptitude and capability, nonetheless. Our priority is to ensure we set people up for success. We will make a final call based on our determining whether we can offer the necessary support to upskill or provide the developmental support needed for you to get the best out of this opportunity with us!

Bring Your Whole Self to Work.

Alcumus is proudly an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to ensuring that no candidate is discriminated against because of gender identity and expression, race, disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, colour, region, creed, national origin, or sex. We are dedicated to growing a diverse team while continuing to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels safe and empowered to be themselves.

What you can expect if you apply:

• A response to your application within 15 working days
• An interview process consisting of:
  • An initial discovery call with the recruiter
  • A first stage interview via Microsoft Teams
  • Additional interview (likely face to face) with the stakeholders you’ll be working with closely in the role

We’re keen to ensure our hiring process allows you to be at your best, so if you need us to make any adjustments, please just let us know.