Senior Test Analyst

The Role

• Mentor and coach junior members of the team.
• Advocate automation across teams and disciplines.
• Find and address challenges with our processes and practices.
• Find opportunities to apply new, innovative technologies to solve our current business problems.
• Perform and document context-driven testing activities across all relevant platforms.
• Create and maintain suitable automated checks in accordance with the test strategy.
• Participate fully in agile delivery processes; leading the analysis, design and development.
• Manage the deployment of cases to production, and support resolution of incidents.
• Identify and resolve production bugs through the triage process.
• Contribute, through knowledge sharing, peer review and mentoring to the capability of the test guild.
• Advocate and facilitate increasing ownership of quality amongst the whole squad.
• Regularly communicate with the squad and wider stakeholders about the progress, risks and overall quality of the products.
• Help engineers with their test planning and execution.
• Monitor production environments and triage possible bugs or anomalies.
• Audit test automation suite coverage and state, and implement corrective actions upon drift.
• Test and audit applications’ security and performance to make sure they are aligned with our standards

About You

• 5+ years’ experience in similar roles, ideally with a mixed background of exploratory and automation testing.
• Ability to automate processes using Bash, Python, or similar tools.
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies preferred, but not required.
• Experience working across different layers of the technology stack.
• Experience applying context-driven testing approaches would be ideal.
• Experience in API, UI/ mobile automation.
• Experience in using monitoring tools like Splunk and New Relic.
• Ability to wrangle data using SQL.
• A good team player and trusted advisor, able to provide support and advice to others with a positive attitude and a willingness to collaborate.
• Organised and comfortable with self-directed work; adaptable and can cope with change in a fast-moving environment.
• An eye for detail; willing to work through the little things to make our web experience faster, more reliable, and easier to maintain.
• Propensity for personal motivation, initiative, adaptability and the willingness to face challenges head-on.
• A willingness to learn and collaborate with your team and the wider business

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