Junior QA Analyst

TerraQuest

Role: Junior QA Analyst

Location: Birmingham in line with our Agile Working Policy. You will need to be able to work from our Birmingham office 2 days per week/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...

Due to a period of sustained growth we are looking to recruit a Junior QA Analyst to join our Solutions Team.

The primary purpose of the Junior 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 Junior 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.

What you will be doing

• Perform analysis design and execution of functional and non-functional testing of software.
• Understand requirements to determine recommended test coverage in terms of 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

Our ideal candidate may have anywhere from 0-2 years of experience and be educated to degree level or have relevant equal experience. Ideally 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 would therefore have an excellent understanding of software testing best practices and their applications experience of agile methodologies across multiple projects and experience using defect management and ALM tools. However as this is an entry-level/junior position experience can be exchanged for the right ready-to-learn attitude and team fit.

No matter their experience the ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills be able to communicate effectively about IT and technology in plain language and non-technical terms to colleagues and clients and have 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.

Further advantages include experience of design compatibility and accessibility testing understanding of automation fundamentals experience using programming languages like JS or C# experience using Cypress or related automation tools experience in API testing using tools like Postman experience with SQL and previous exposure to Azure DevOps as a test management tool.

Please apply for more information and please do not be put off if you do not have all of the experience and skills required. If you have the majority of skills and relevant experience we would still like to hear from you!

TerraQuest Solutions Ltd is committed to promoting equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment and to creating an inclusive working environment in which individuals are treated with dignity and respect.

We ensure that no job applicant employee or worker receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of age disability gender reassignment marital or civil partnership status pregnancy or maternity race (including colour nationality ethnic or national origin) religion or belief political opinion sex or sexual orientation.

TerraQuest Solutions Ltd operates in compliance with the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998. We monitor the composition of our workforce in accordance with the Fair Employment (Monitoring) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 and where applicable submit annual monitoring returns to the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland (ECNI). All monitoring information is held securely and processed under the legal basis of compliance with a statutory obligation in accordance with the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. We do not rely on employee consent and ensure all personal data is treated with the utmost confidentiality and integrity.

TerraQuest aims to use this data to help identify and address any patterns of underrepresentation and to inform positive action measures where appropriate fostering a workplace culture that embraces diversity and fair participation.