Junior Test Analyst
| Posting date: | 09 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £33,951 to £35,608 per year, pro rata |
| Additional salary information: | The starting salary will be from £33,951 up to £35,608 on Grade E, depending on qualifications and experience. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 September 2025 |
| Location: | Exeter, Devon |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | University of Exeter |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | P97058 |
Summary
This full time post is available immediately on a permanent basis and offers the opportunity for hybrid working - some time on campus and some time from home.
The University of Exeter is developing a ten-year strategy where digital ways of working will be central to delivering our vision and goals. The digital transformation will impact profoundly on our workplace design, the skills we develop, the way our students learn, and the way we work and collaborate, and we want to ensure that this transformation has our staff and students at its heart. We are investing in digital technology and skills development to strengthen our education, research, and partnerships, and to meet the needs of our community.
IT Services is central to all of this, and we are looking for people to join us who want to be part of this major transformation and part of changing the way we work and the way our students learn.
Why our staff love working here
Flexible working opportunities
41 days annual leave(including bank holidays)
Actively inclusive organisation ensuring equality and fairness for all
Leading parental leave initiatives
Multiple wellbeing and health initiatives for staff
Sustainability and the environment being at the heart of what we do
Beautiful campus environment when working from either Exeter or Penryn
Inspiring research that really makes a difference to the world
The role
We are looking for a Junior Test Analyst to join our team in to work on the University’s quality assurance capabilities for IT development and testing.
You will create and maintain manual and automated tests using tools and techniques that will enable increased reliability and repeatability of system development and testing.
You will ensure the quality of delivered solutions by developing, writing and implementing manual and automated tests across all test/project phases.
You will liaise with stakeholders across the business to develop a solid understanding of use cases, translating these into robust test cases.
You will implement and maintain an automation environment that supports efficient, reliable testing and deployment processes that enable fast and robust IT development across the full range of IT applications.
You will be responsible for implementing and managing tools and techniques for tests across a broad range of IT technologies and platforms.
Implement a broad variety of complex technical, operational and problem solving activities for IT applications and services, and provide professional advice about your area of expertise to academic and professional services staff.
You
Experience of manual testing methodologies, including exploratory, regression, and functional testing.
Experience in platform security, performance and API testing as well as strong software development skills.
Experience with testing tools, including initial scripting, writing, maintaining automated test packs, and executing manual test cases.
Have outstanding verbal and written communication skills and a proven ability to communicate across multi-functional and technical working teams to build ongoing relationships to ensure effective communications and exchange of information.
Have an understanding of scripting/programming languages, web services or other appropriate technical skills such as: Git, Jenkins (and other build/deployment tools), Python, Playwright.
Experience of testing, and the test pyramid is at the centre of your test strategies.
A self-motivated engineer with an appetite to explore a complex architectural and business domain and build an industry leading test framework for it.
Experience with manual testing, test automation tools and test management tools (e.g. Jira).
Be flexible, adaptive, and proactive in your approach to seek continuous improvement of our services and technologies.
Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.
We will be reviewing applications as they come in, so please don’t hesitate in applying, as we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications.
Further information:
For further information, please contact Pete Robinson, p.g.robinson@exeter.ac.uk
The University of Exeter is developing a ten-year strategy where digital ways of working will be central to delivering our vision and goals. The digital transformation will impact profoundly on our workplace design, the skills we develop, the way our students learn, and the way we work and collaborate, and we want to ensure that this transformation has our staff and students at its heart. We are investing in digital technology and skills development to strengthen our education, research, and partnerships, and to meet the needs of our community.
IT Services is central to all of this, and we are looking for people to join us who want to be part of this major transformation and part of changing the way we work and the way our students learn.
Why our staff love working here
Flexible working opportunities
41 days annual leave(including bank holidays)
Actively inclusive organisation ensuring equality and fairness for all
Leading parental leave initiatives
Multiple wellbeing and health initiatives for staff
Sustainability and the environment being at the heart of what we do
Beautiful campus environment when working from either Exeter or Penryn
Inspiring research that really makes a difference to the world
The role
We are looking for a Junior Test Analyst to join our team in to work on the University’s quality assurance capabilities for IT development and testing.
You will create and maintain manual and automated tests using tools and techniques that will enable increased reliability and repeatability of system development and testing.
You will ensure the quality of delivered solutions by developing, writing and implementing manual and automated tests across all test/project phases.
You will liaise with stakeholders across the business to develop a solid understanding of use cases, translating these into robust test cases.
You will implement and maintain an automation environment that supports efficient, reliable testing and deployment processes that enable fast and robust IT development across the full range of IT applications.
You will be responsible for implementing and managing tools and techniques for tests across a broad range of IT technologies and platforms.
Implement a broad variety of complex technical, operational and problem solving activities for IT applications and services, and provide professional advice about your area of expertise to academic and professional services staff.
You
Experience of manual testing methodologies, including exploratory, regression, and functional testing.
Experience in platform security, performance and API testing as well as strong software development skills.
Experience with testing tools, including initial scripting, writing, maintaining automated test packs, and executing manual test cases.
Have outstanding verbal and written communication skills and a proven ability to communicate across multi-functional and technical working teams to build ongoing relationships to ensure effective communications and exchange of information.
Have an understanding of scripting/programming languages, web services or other appropriate technical skills such as: Git, Jenkins (and other build/deployment tools), Python, Playwright.
Experience of testing, and the test pyramid is at the centre of your test strategies.
A self-motivated engineer with an appetite to explore a complex architectural and business domain and build an industry leading test framework for it.
Experience with manual testing, test automation tools and test management tools (e.g. Jira).
Be flexible, adaptive, and proactive in your approach to seek continuous improvement of our services and technologies.
Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.
We will be reviewing applications as they come in, so please don’t hesitate in applying, as we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications.
Further information:
For further information, please contact Pete Robinson, p.g.robinson@exeter.ac.uk
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