Test Analyst

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead stand-ups, meetings & workshops with stakeholders from multiple functional areas to complete testing and elicit change requests.
• Be a key participant in the defect management process with business testers and software vendor.
• Lead daily defect triage sessions with software vendor.
• Document change requests, manage sign-off with the business and brief the software vendor on the required changes.
• Create test scripts to support testing as required.
• Perform data analysis/mapping of transactional and reference data to define the XML and XSD files that will be generated within the workflow for the purposes of Robotic Process Automation.
• Develop and manage plans for project milestones/activities assigned by the Project Manager.
• Identify and escalate risks and issues to the Project Manager as required.
• Collaborate with onshore and offshore 3rd Party resources to deliver the solution.
• Manage conflicts in requirements and prepare impact assessments to enable informed for decision making.
• Complete solution specification documents in line with business requirements.
• Support the creation of business readiness plans.
• Support deployment and stabilization phases.
• Create and maintain a comprehensive set of project documentation.

Skills and Experience:

Essential

• Minimum of 5 years + experience with both functional and non-functional test experience
• A formal qualification in an IT discipline or a third level qualification in a discipline with a high IT emphasis
• An understanding of the full Software Development Lifecycle
• Experience of working with complex systems comprising of multiple data sources and applications within an Microsoft/SQL Server/Oracle environment

• Webservice testing experience
• SoapUI or alternative webservice tool experience – an understanding of building xml requests from wsdls
• Experience of discussing requirements with business users

• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills
• Proven ability to take direction and meet deadlines

• Have demonstrated flexibility and motivational skills
• The ability to work effectively as part of a team
• Demonstration of successful troubleshooting, problem solving and work planning for projects and programmes of work

Desirable

• Experience of working in a regulated industry particularly the energy industry would be a considerable advantage;
• Test certifications (ISTQB or equivalent)

• Sharepoint Scheduler experience

• Experience of automated test tools