Overview
Quality Assurance Analyst Jobs in United Kingdom at Fundipedia
Title: Quality Assurance Analyst
Company: Fundipedia
Location: United Kingdom
Starting Salary – £35,000pa
Main Purpose of Job
As a Quality Assurance Analyst at Fundipedia you will be responsible for testing the full suite of Fundipedia Products to ensure the software we deliver to clients is of the highest quality.
You must be a self-starter, have experience of bringing concepts through to reality and have excellent communication skills.
Position in Organisation
Reports to Lead QA.
Duties and Key Responsibilities
Analyse both functional and non-functional specifications to determine test requirements for environment, data, resources and tools including documenting acceptance criteria.
Provide the Lead QA and Engineering Manager with time estimates and deliver to these agreed timescales.
Test management:
Creation and execution of test cases
Bug reporting
Retesting and regression testing
Exploratory testing
Assigning appropriate labels and accurate QA time estimates
Work with the Lead QA and Engineering Manager to identify risks and offer solutions during pre-sprint planning.
Ensure you adhere to test strategy/processes.
Help identify areas of weakness in our test processes and proactively address them.
Assist with the creation and maintenance of automated test suites, using scripting and other relevant programming tools.
Work closely with other testers, developers, users and experts.
Effectively Peer review test cases for other testers.
Provide assistance to colleagues on any aspect of test planning, automation and execution.
Proactively use and contribute to Fundipedia’s overall quality standards.
Key skills required
Attention to detail.
Logical thinker.
Effective problem solver.
Curiosity and desire to learn how things work.
Understand the development lifecycle, and how software testing fits in.
Enthusiasm and knowledge of software testing processes and methodologies.
A desire to develop or build on existing coding skills.
Ability to analyse business/testing requirements and create test scenarios.
Organised with strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to liaise with a variety of stakeholders.
Knowledge, skills and experience
2+ year’s experience in a software testing role
Knowledge of software testing, including use of tools in the testing cycle, appreciation of end to end process and value of testing.
Proficiency in different testing tools (VS, GitHub, DevOps, Jira, etc) for bug reporting and agile planning is beneficial.
ISTQB Foundation Level certified.
Experience using Microsoft technology stack.
Basic knowledge of SQL Server is preferred but not essential
