Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

For our business, for clients, and for you

Key duties and responsibilities

• Implement the overall QA Policy & Strategy for allocated projects within the allocated Apex QA team, supporting the drive for increased QA Automation.
• Act as Deputy Management Representative for the QA Test Lead in their absence.
• Write & Implement the Project Test Plans that will take the project team through an end-to-end journey to prove successful deployment and implementation.
• Define, execute, and analyse test cases (manual & Automated) collaborating with the team to validate the achievement of acceptance criteria.
• Ability to prioritise tasks and be able to provide direction and mentoring for QA Analysts.
• Conduct review meetings to share test case status, discuss concerns and risk items, drive comprehensive test coverage, and assure general team alignment.
• Track defects and bugs using the defect tracking system, track resolution progress and validate resolutions once submitted.
• Provide clear and concise test progress reporting that is reflective of test program status.
• Where working with newly acquired Companies good client relationship skills are required to manage the UAT QA lifecycle with the client QA and/or business team.
• Ensure QA process and methodology are applied at all stages during SDLC.
• Participate in requirements/design reviews with Product, Business Analysts and Development teams to assure that the product under development meets requirements and is tested efficiently.
• Perform requirements reviews and traceability analyses to assess test coverage.
• Support the required tests that will demonstrate successful deliverables from internal and external parties.
• Monitor QA activities, test results, defects, root cause analysis and identify areas needing improvement.
• Progress and status reporting on a regular basis on overall Quality and Test phase metrics.
• Evaluate and escalate potential risks and issues that may adversely affect quality, schedule or budget.
• Actively participate in lessons learned sessions to help improve QA process

Experience and skills:

• 6+ years of QA experience working on complex projects
• 2+ years owning QA Projects
• Experience in QA best practices and processes implementation.
• Experience in both Waterfall and Agile, BDD, Dev Ops testing methodologies.
• Experience of using Automation tooling and Automation frameworks.
• Experience in running UAT exercises with globally dispersed teams.
• Good understanding of cloud (Azure) technologies, infrastructure, networks, firewalls & Citrix.
• Good knowledge of Jira or similar test management tools (incl. Zephyr, X-Ray).
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and coordinate with globally dispersed technical and non-technical teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
• Proactiveness and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and prioritize effort accordingly.
• Ability to act on own initiative with a can-do attitude.
• Ability to discuss required test scope with technical and non-technical team members.
• Ability to work in a quickly changing environment.

Disclaimer: Unsolicited CVs sent to Apex (Talent Acquisition Team or Hiring Managers) by recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this position. Apex operates a direct souring model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our exclusive recruitment partners.