Functional Test Analyst
6 months
Newcastle/ Hybrid - Frequent out of hours work up to two weekday evenings per week / Occasional weekend work also from the Newcastle site
£420 per day inside IR35
SC clearance preferred but can be applied for in role
What you'll be doing - your accountabilities:
- Accountable for own work and able to lead small to medium test projects with minimal support.
- Create quality testing documentation (plans, reports and scripts), in line with the test strategy.
- Develop plans to define the depth of testing required, data sources and key deliverables.
- Identify and analyse defects or issues to understand impacts, reporting on and discussing findings to enable mitigation or resolution.
- Apply best practice ISTQB techniques, using expertise to tailor the test approach depending on the needs of the project.
- Manage multiple deliveries simultaneously, whilst ensuring the integrity of the test and Validation role is maintained.
- Report and communicate progress internally and may require some engagement with the customer.
- Actively support wider team initiatives such as CI and Your Say
The skills you'll need to succeed:
- Strong understanding of Test and Validation processes and procedures (ISTQB qualified or will attain within 12 months)
- Thorough understanding on ITIL framework (qualified or will attain ITIL4 Foundation within 12 months)
- Already cleared to SC level or willing to undergo UK security clearance - SC level - must have been resident in the UK for 5 years.
- Able to drive improvements to the Test and Validation process and be responsible for maintaining the continual improvement ethos.
- Able to quality assurance and static test inputs. Comfortable owning and leading on management of technical stakeholders to drive for quality in test inputs.
- Able to demonstrate a Good knowledge of Functional and Non-Functional testing of contact centre solutions.
Experience you'd be expected to have:
- Significant experience of working in a testing environment using the ITIL framework - MANADTORY
- Significant exposure to and experience of functional and non-functional testing of contact centre solutions - MANADTORY
- Significant experience of leading testing projects and comfortable as the sole tester on a project. - MANADTORY
- C#/API coding experience - PREFERRED
If you meet the above requirements, please apply for the vacancy to be contacted by an Experis Consultant. If you haven't been contacted within 2 weeks of application, please consider the vacancy closed.
