QA Analyst

TerraQuest

Role: QA Analyst

Location: Birmingham in line with our Agile Working Policy. You will need to be able to work from our Birmingham office to be attended as often as business needs require.

Salary: Competitive

Who we are...

TerraQuest Solutions Ltd is an award-winning and market-leading specialist provider of planning land property and business solutions. We are an established and trusted organisation that is renowned for its expertise in providing innovative and cost-effective solutions to both public and private sectors. Our team delivers bespoke flexible and efficient services through a process-orientated delivery structure. We pride ourselves on strong customer relationships evidenced by the high proportion of referrals and repeat business.

Why work with us

We are a Living Wage Foundation accredited employer committed to supporting the well-being and development of all our people. With competitive salaries enhanced Family Friendly policies; a fabulous suite of benefits (including: Pension; Life Assurance; Employee Assistance Programme; option to buy additional annual leave in addition to 25 days plus Bank Holidays); true flexibility with our Agile Working approach and superb training and development opportunities we really care about our team!

What we need...

We are looking to recruit a QA Analyst to join the data team as a part of our wider Solutions Team.

The primary purpose of the QA Analyst is to assure the quality of software delivered by the Solutions team in projects throughout the entire TerraQuest product suite by performing analysis design and execution of functional and non-functional testing of software.

QA Analysts participate in reviews workshops and triage with the objective of improving quality and applying a quality first mentality shifting the identification of issues and defects as early as possible in the SDLC. They feedback results and progress and escalate any risks issues or decisions to QA Manager or Lead.

Working closely with the entire scrum team from developers to product owners and collaborating with others in the QA team QA Analysts will work to improve ways of working to implement a quality-minded way of thinking and to assure the overall quality of TerraQuests products.

This role will sit within the Data Team and will therefore be centred around testing and supporting the production of data-related solutions as such it will require some data experience or exposure and there will be an expectation of upskilling and learning by doing.

What you will be doing

• Perform analysis design and execution of functional and non-functional testing of software and data-related solutions.
• Understand requirements to determine recommended test coverage in terms of data new functionality and regression testing.
• Attend all sprint events including contributing to refinement planning and review.
• Perform QA on project artefacts (eg. user stories) to feedback to allow improvements on these artefacts and on the process as a whole.
• Manage own usage of test data capture test evidence and ensure test results are accurate.
• Create and maintain test artefacts to the defined standards as well as supporting others in the same pursuit by performing peer test artefact reviews.
• Participate in reviews and workshops to develop improve the quality of and sign-off specifications and other documentation.
• Identify log and track defects that contain sufficient information to support their resolution.
• Attend triage meetings support the teams understanding of the defects under discussion and feed into the QA Leads decisions.
• Manage own workload; understand priorities and commitments in order to plan work.
• Keep up to date on current technologies tools and software test methodologies (both those used by TerraQuest and those used in the industry).
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders across the TerraQuest Solutions and delivery teams.
• Adherence to all Regulatory Security and Compliance requirements.

What we are looking for

The ideal candidate will have 2-3 years of experience and be educated to degree level or have relevant equal experience. They will have completed the ISTQB Foundation Level Certification or equivalent and have demonstrable experience working commercially in a software development environment in a QA capacity. They will in particular have had exposure to data-related projects or products and ideally will have taken part in their QA. They will have an excellent understanding of software testing best practices experience of agile methodologies and experience using SQL defect management and ALM tools. They will have excellent communication skills able to communicate effectively about IT and technology in plain language and non-technical terms to colleagues and clients and an ability to work calmly and methodically when under pressure. It will be necessary for them to have a strong desire to learn and have a passion for QA and data.

Further advantages include exposure to Azure tools like Databricks Log Analytics workspaces or PowerBI and experience using programming languages like python. Any further experience related to data or data testing would be beneficial.

Please apply for more information