Job Description

Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From home working to job sharing, visit the remote and flexible working page on our website to find out more. This role is based in India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India. Join us as a Quality Analyst, AVP

• If you have a keen eye for detail, this could be the role for you, as you’ll make sure that only well designed and built work packages get through quality testing
• You’ll make sure decisions made are based on robust data, return on investment and value measures that demonstrate thoughtful and intelligent cost management
• Joining us in this fast-paced role, you'll have excellent opportunities for progression and developing your analyst capabilities

What you'll do

As a Quality Analyst, you’ll be assisting the feature team to define testable work that is technically robust, high performing, stable and secure, and ensures excellent customer experiences and outcomes. Promoting continuous improvement, you’ll identify opportunities to maximise the customer experience and reduce the test cycle time by improving techniques, tooling, eliminating waste and creating a collaborative, proactive approach to quality in the feature team. As well as this, you’ll be:

• Supporting your Quality Manager and team in executing against the test strategy and quality by determining and advising which tests should be automated at which layer
• Working in conjunction with quality automation specialists in writing automated tests and analysing the results
• Executing tests on a continuous basis triggered automatically by change events and minimising the execution time for the automated tests in order to obtain quick feedback
• Understanding the customer and human centric designs and driving the quality of the teams work to constantly improve the solutions and enhance customer experiences
• Making sure defects are detected and prioritised, based on impact, and resolved at the earliest possible moment ensuring customer outcomes are delivered right first time

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with proven application of testing methodologies, including a range of Agile testing methods such as test driven development and behaviour driven development. You'll have at least 10 years' of strong mainframe testing experience in COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, VSAM, MQ and API with experience in test data management as well as exposure to different test environments and utilisation of risk based testing. You’ll also need experience of systems development lifecycle, along with experience of delivering testing activities in a technology or IT function. Additionally, we’ll be looking for:

• Experience delivering in an Agile or DevOps delivery model and associated tools such as LeanKit, Jira, UCD or Silk
• Proven ability to design test strategy, scenarios and scripts, and define testing frameworks
• Expertise in test management tools such as QC, ALM and Silk Central
• Experience in automation testing with Silk4J, Selenium or UTP and the ability to determine the need of automation across the life cycle
• Exposure to webservices testing using SOAP UI or REST and NFT
• Experience in functional and non-functional testing such as system, system integration, user, load, volume, stress, security, accessibility, compatibility, penetration and back-out
• Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills