Test Analyst / Lead

DXC Technology; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job description

• Contributes to test planning, scheduling, and managing test resources; leads formal test execution phases on larger projects.
• Defines test cases and creates integration and system test scripts and configuration test questionnaires from functional requirement documents.
• Executes functional tests and authors significant revisions to test materials as necessary through the dry run and official test phases. Maintains defect reports and updates reports following regression testing.
• Adheres to and advocates use of established quality methodology and escalates issues as appropriate.
• Understands the functional design of software products/suites being tested and their underlying technologies to facilitate authoring testware, diagnosing system issues, and ensuring that tests accurately address required business functionality. Clarifies ambiguous areas with technical teams.
• Applies basic industry and functional area knowledge related to the software product being tested and applicable regulatory statutes to determine whether system components meet business specifications.
• Develops specified testing deliverables over the lifecycle of the project.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Bachelor's degree in business, mathematics, engineering, management information systems, or computer science, or related field preferred
• Three or more years of software testing experience
• Experience working with developing testware from functional design documents and executing testware against a schedule and in compliance with a methodology
• Experience working with configuration management, defect tracking, query tools, software productivity tools, and templates used to create test scripts, trace matrices, etc.
• Experience working with software product testing and applicable regulatory statutes

Other Qualifications

• Good organization, people management, and time management skills
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good personal computer and business solutions software skills
• Good communication skills to interact and present findings to team members
• Good consulting skills; can effectively interact with clients during project team teleconferences and on-site meetings
• Ability to write lengthy procedural, step-based narrative test materials including the necessary testbed set-up steps
• Ability to work cooperatively as a part of a global professional team that may be distributed across geographies and time zones
• Ability to complete assigned responsibilities independently in a given timeframe with minimal managerial and technical support
• Willingness to travel
• Office environment / Home Working as applicable

About the company

DXC Technology is an American multinational information technology services and consulting company headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia.