The Role
At Unite Students our aim is to create a Home for Success for our students, using technology and data to empower them to find their home and have a great stay with us, and a great experience throughout their student life.
Reporting to the QA Lead, the QA Analyst will be part of the IT quality assurance team responsible for ensuring the quality of our systems. They will be responsible for testing new and changed features and functions of internal and external facing systems, websites and mobile apps, following test best practice to deliver this they will work closely with product owners, developers and other QA analysts to ensure all software meets required acceptance criteria, and any issues are identified and resolved.
This role will require a strong understanding of testing methodologies, risk management and quality assurance processes. Your strategic oversight will ensure that all test related activities are managed and delivered on time and within budget while integrating the enterprise test strategy into the technology estate.
What You`ll Be Doing
1. Managing and Maintaining Test Automation suites and pipelines
2. Ensure effective stakeholder relationships are maintained, ensuring reporting and updates are provided on progress and any issues raised.
3. Deliver all required test tasks for allocated systems and ensure product quality meets agreed requirements.
4. Create defect records for all issues found during testing and ensure they are tracked and progressed until resolved.
5. Review user stories and requirements to ensure that acceptance criteria are testable and unambiguous
6. Extract test cases from story acceptance criteria
7. Liaise with product owners, end user and developers
8. Prepare, run and maintain test scripts
9. Complete compatibility testing on multiple browsers and devices
10. Run and maintain regression packs
11. Raise, track and retest defects in Azure Dev Ops
12. Define test tasks to ensure that acceptance criteria are met
13. Review supplier test evidence against coverage and provide feedback
14. Develop and maintain product knowledge for all systems allocated for project testing
15. Build relationships with relevant business users and support teams, including product owners, subject matter experts and developers
16. Keep up to date with testing best practice and guidelines
What We`re Looking for in You
17. Experience with test automation tools, for example Cypress and Patrol
18. Knowledge of test processes and methodologies
19. Experience testing Finance systems including Oracle Fusion
20. Experience testing HR Systems
21. Experience working with HR Asset data
22. Experience of testing web and enterprise applications
23. API, Pact or Contract Testing Experience
24. Ability to write clear test scripts
25. Demonstrable ability to be able to communicate clearly and concisely with end users and developers
26. Knowledge and use of Azure Dev Ops or equivalent
What You`ll Get in Return
27. An annual bonus so you can share in the company`s success
28. 25 days` paid holiday
29. Pension - based on how much you save, we`ll contribute 1% more
30. Flexible working opportunities
31. Shared Parental Leave - 18 weeks full pay
32. Other benefits include, ShareSave, Bike to Work, Charity Match, amazing discounts and more!