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Job description Part of The Borders and Trade Delivery Group who are responsible for the end-to-end service management and development of over 100 separate services from the generation of Trade Statistics, to the administration of Customs and Excise duties. As part of the Test Guild, you will provide test support of live services, updates, improvements, and development of both new and existing systems, across multiple platforms and locations. You will undertake functional and non-functional testing activities to meet Project requirements and support Test Team members. You will assist in developing Automated Testing and support Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery across a variety of platforms. As a test specialist, you will work alongside our business analysts to understand client requirements and define and execute test scenarios, whilst leveraging a bespoke BDD automation test framework. Person specification Key duties: Core responsibilities for a QAT Analyst: Design and execute test cases using standard testing techniques. Come up with different business scenarios for a feature, working with others in the team. Gather test evidence and report progress. Essential Criteria
You must be able to demonstrate experience and knowledge of: Software Testing across the Software Development Lifecycle. A range of Test tools e.g. Zephyr, JIRA, JMeter, Cucumber. Automation testing and test automation tools e.g. SOAP UI, Selenium, Postman. If you do not possess hands-on experience, then as a minimum you must demonstrate you have the technical ability to acquire the hands-on skills required. A validated technical background (skills, experience and/or qualifications e.g. ISEB/ISTQB). Working in an Agile team with a clear delivery focus.
Additional Information
Candidates must hold or be able to acquire SC level clearance. The minimum requirement for this is residency in the UK for 5 years preceding the date of application.
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