Senior Test Analyst (Manual)
Reporting To: QA Manager
Location: Homebased - with the expectation to attend Graphnet Group office sites at least once per month, or as and when required for team collaboration days
Overview:
Graphnet Health is the leading UK supplier of integrated healthcare solutions to the NHS. Our software solutions are helping to revolutionise patient care across the country, driving improved patient outcomes and patient satisfaction and delivering greater efficiency across the healthcare system.
We build and deliver market leading applications in the remote monitoring, integrated care record and population health sector and following recent successes of our solutions, we’re looking to expand and add to our QA team.
We are looking to bring in an experienced software tester who will collaborate closely with developers and members of the QA team, and work with the Product team to understand requirements to prepare for testing. The ideal candidate will be responsible for co-ordinating, planning and executing testing activities including test script creation and execution for our key projects.
The ideal candidate will need to demonstrate they have experience testing web-based applications, mobile applications and back-end services dealing with complex data and processing. Candidates with experience testing API’s, integration level testing, executing automation tests and non-functional testing would be desirable
Personal Attributes:
- Experience of creation, maintenance, and execution of manual test cases.
- Experience of implementing and executing testing processes.
- Very good experience with STLC
- Excellent understanding of software testing techniques and test processes and proven track
record in delivering high quality solutions. - Experience of testing commercial applications within a busy team atmosphere.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills both orally and in writing.
- Experience of diagnosing, reporting, tracking, and resolving quality issues.
- Ability to organise, co-ordinate and prioritise personal and team day to day workload.
- Experience of testing browser-based solutions is essential and a good understanding of cross
browser testing. - Knowledge of automated testing practices is desirable.
- Good experience in identifying, creating and maintaining test data.
- Very good experience in non-functional testing (load, stress, performance, recovery etc.)
- Knowledge of Health Care systems would be beneficial.
- Experience of testing in an Agile development environment is highly desirable.
- Ability to demonstrate patience and diplomacy.
- Good attention to detail
- Ability to coach junior members of the team.
- Pro-activeness and confidence in making decisions.
- Positively influence fellow team members
Key Responsibilities
- Play a key role in the existing QA processes and continuously improve functional and non-functional testing at all levels, including but not limited to Agile QA, Integration testing, Regression testing, Automated testing, Technical testing, Performance testing, Stress/Load testing, Security testing.
- Deliver to time, cost, and quality consistently across multiple projects in parallel as well as business wide programmes.
- Determine the most appropriate testing for each project and work alongside the QA Manager, to deliver to milestones, executing tasks and activities: track progression and delivery.
- Collaborate with other teams to ensure QA environments are available, maintained and updated to support upcoming test requirements are populated with suitable and appropriate test data sets.
- Ensure QA tracking and reporting is executed and evidenced to meet relevant ISO audit requirements.
Professional Qualifications
- ISEB/ISTQB qualification
Computing/IT related Bachelor’s degree (desirable)
