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Test analyst
| Posting date: | 10 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £40,000 to £42,000 per year |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 10 May 2025 |
| Location: | Reading, Berkshire |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | MSQUIRE IT SERVIES LTD |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
As our Test/QA Analyst you will work with Business Analysts, Users, Developers and Test Team in order to automate test cases for Key Product Workflows that will accelerate testing efforts during Functional, Integration, and Regression Testing.
You will be responsible for ensuring software quality by testing, produced using Structured Testing Methods in order to execute test cases to find defects, through Sprint, Integration and Regression testing activities prior to the release.
Your day to day will include:
Analysis of specifications and user stories working with business analysts and development to ensure correct documentation & test conditions
Creating test scripts based on functional specifications
Identifying test data requirements
Support development of automated regression testing tools
Provide day to day support to business users by resolving queries, investigating potential production incident issues and raising them as appropriate with the required software provider
Utilise test automation technologies
Continuously maintain, evaluate and improve automated tests as necessary
What we require
Experience as a manual/functional Test Analyst
Demonstrable experience of IT project and programme support services.
Experience of testing of web-based systems
Basic understanding of databases, and database structures
Understanding of use and interrogation of XML
Experience in writing SQL queries/programming
Experienced in using selenium, Microsoft Azure DevOps, or similar
Exposure to / knowledge of Test Automation frameworks such as Selenium.
Exposure to / knowledge of C# development
Experience with Jira
Experience of working in an agile environment – Scrum Development and testing is highly desirable
You will be responsible for ensuring software quality by testing, produced using Structured Testing Methods in order to execute test cases to find defects, through Sprint, Integration and Regression testing activities prior to the release.
Your day to day will include:
Analysis of specifications and user stories working with business analysts and development to ensure correct documentation & test conditions
Creating test scripts based on functional specifications
Identifying test data requirements
Support development of automated regression testing tools
Provide day to day support to business users by resolving queries, investigating potential production incident issues and raising them as appropriate with the required software provider
Utilise test automation technologies
Continuously maintain, evaluate and improve automated tests as necessary
What we require
Experience as a manual/functional Test Analyst
Demonstrable experience of IT project and programme support services.
Experience of testing of web-based systems
Basic understanding of databases, and database structures
Understanding of use and interrogation of XML
Experience in writing SQL queries/programming
Experienced in using selenium, Microsoft Azure DevOps, or similar
Exposure to / knowledge of Test Automation frameworks such as Selenium.
Exposure to / knowledge of C# development
Experience with Jira
Experience of working in an agile environment – Scrum Development and testing is highly desirable