Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Job Description

• Leads or runs multiple phases of technical areas within a project/projects of moderate scope or complex assignments, responsible for a certain test area.
• Assures the project meets quality standards by providing technical guidance and vision in planning, designing, executing testing, and developing procedures relating to product quality.
• Participates in formal reviews of business requirements and application designs and ensures proper test coverage based on requirements and design specifications. Defines changes to processes or working instructions.
• Refines requirements by talking to relevant business stakeholders and recommends strategies and methods to improve test plans and processes. Has an understanding of the overall test strategy.
• Leads the test design plans, establishing the test scenarios and determines the entrance and exit criteria.
• Creates systems and business relevant test cases using own in-depth technical analysis of functional specifications.
• Determines the potential causes of problems and analyses multiple alternatives, risks, and benefits for a range of potential solutions.
• Analyses and reports on overall test status and results, identifying issues and reporting to relevant stakeholders. Manages risks to the success of the project.
• Identifies and manages the critical path of testing and ensures execution of project regression tasks. Defines regression tests for future projects and defines and co-ordinates product verification and validation.
• Develops a network to support and add value to client engagements including company, clients and external professional networks.

Job Requirements

General:

• Has achieved trusted advisor status at a senior level with the client.
• Excellent client-facing skills, takes time to establish underlying needs of client beyond those initially expressed.
• Has an innovative approach, develops new approaches to improve or replace existing procedures or systems.
• Excellent communication skills, maintains confidentiality, shares ideas and information, facilitates discussions and transfers knowledge to diverse audiences to achieve collective objectives.

Technical:

• Intermediate theoretical knowledge in quality assurance methodologies and has awareness of new and emerging technologies and developments.
• Has good applications/technology knowledge, building on specialist domain knowledge and has practical experience of and is proficient with testing tools and frameworks required to deliver.
• Strong understanding of the software development process including analysis, design, coding, system and user testing, problem resolution and planning.
• Proven ability in assuring project meets quality standards by providing technical guidance in planning, designing, executing testing, and developing procedures relating to product quality.
• Experience in applying problem-solving methodologies and tools to diagnose and solve operational and interpersonal problems.
• Experience in providing technical guidance to enable others and solving technical queries from junior colleagues.

Qualifications Essential

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• ISTQB Advanced