Description
QA Test Analyst
6 month contract
Dublin city centre/Hybrid
Our high profile client based in Dublin city centre is actively seeking an experienced QA Test Analyst to join their team.
You will work as part of the IT QA testing team and align with the best test management practices with a focus on assuring the quality of the mission critical systems/applications.
Key Responsibilities:
- Actively work with QA Lead and enablement teams to drive in the development of the test approach, timelines, and estimate (incl. effort and resources) documentations.
- Collaboratively work with enablement teams on risks and issues with strong focus on solutions.
- Test preparation tasks including alignment with business on requirements, development of manual test cases, creation of test data and test scheduling and planning
- Manual test execution as per project plans
- Defect management including defect identification, triage, logging (in JIRA) and work with developer for fixes deployment
- Utilization of a variety of systems, applications and technologies across testing work stream and other lines of business
- Reporting and tracking on test progress on a daily/weekly basis with metrics-based approach
- Implementation of test automation agenda
- Active engagement with the PMO/Change team and lines of business to provide SME knowledge and testing support where required
- Collaboratively work within QA team and with other lines of business to deliver BAU and other projects related testing activities
- Conduct peer review of quality of other team members’ test outputs
- Maintain and evolve existing testing documentations
- Actively explore test automation opportunities
- Utilise the available tools for test preparation, execution, defect management, reporting and test optimisation
- Support future implementation of test automation agenda incl. approach, best practice, framework setup and future enhancement where possible as the QA team identifies automation opportunities
Experience:
- Bachelors Degree in an IT Discipline or equivalent
- 5+ years working as a QA test analyst or similar capacity
- 3+ years’ experience testing API’s using postman, and also experienced in querying/updating DB using MSSQL
- ISTQB or other software testing certifications
- Health Insurance experience an advantage
