Senior Test Analyst / Test Lead at Expleo Group

You will have responsibility of leading test consultants through the process of reviewing and implementing new methodologies & tools throughout the client project. In addition, you will provide mentoring, leadership and direction to other team members, as well as ensuring the quality of the team’s output is of a consistently high standard. You will be part of a high-performance team and will have the opportunity to excel and grow your career delivering quality at a fast pace.

Responsibilities

• Document and execute high quality test plans for functional areas under custom development and test
• Analyze complex requirements and review acceptance criteria to ensure they are for fit for purpose, testable and can have tests developed to explicitly test and guide acceptance
• Create comprehensive and well-defined test scripts that are traceable back to requirements
• Execution of functional, regression and integration test scripts
• Lead/participate in defect triage discussions and challenge development perception of severity
• Contribute to management reporting including appropriate test metrics on planning, defects and execution.
• Lead a QA team, and gather information from business stakeholders to verify and prioritise a set of business requirements
• Prepare, execute and document test cases based on Business & Functional Requirements to ensure thorough testing of requirements in a fast-paced environment
• Work with clients to analyse existing or new processes and systems in order to provide high quality advice and deliverables
• Work attentively with the Expleo testing services (functional, automated and performance) to deliver a seamless overall quality service
• Work closely with the clients’ Technical Architects and Developers and be able to ‘translate’ the business requirements to functional requirements for these teams
• Ensure that the scope of a design iteration doesn't vary unless authorised by the Business Stakeholders
• Report issues to management where these could have an impact on a major deadline
• Mentor less experienced analysts and motivate others to provide innovative solutions for team improvement
• Review test cases written by peers to ensure that all requirements are covered in test case documentation
• Re-test bugs to confirm that they have been corrected
• Review, mentor and assign tasks to junior QA staff
• Bring a quality focus to product releases
• Have a customer mind-set and eye for detail with applications under test
   

Qualifications

• A Computer Science/I.T. related degree / Diploma
• ISTQB certification in Software Testing (minimum CFL)
• Minimum 3yrs of proven working experience
• Excellent communication skills
• Must possess Good Interpersonal Skills
• A degree-level qualification in a Computer Science discipline
• ISTQB certification.
• Cloud testing experience would be beneficial
   

Skills

• Excellent client-facing skills
• People management skills - introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other, encouraging mentoring and the transfer of knowledge by designing and delivering learning interventions
• Teamwork and emotional intelligence
• Good self-management – continuous performance is both an objective and a mind-set
• Have an innovative approach – a bold thinker and doer, matching creativity with vigilance
• High value on openness and transparency
• Ability to influence Stakeholders
• Excellent time management and the ability to work to tight deadlines

Experience

• Demonstrable experience in a Test lead position as well as 3 years’ experience testing across a variety of environments and industries
• Scoping and creating functional and non-functional test plans and test data, maintaining the integrity of the test environment
• Test estimation and test planning experience essential
• Quality focused with attention to detail