QA Analyst

We have an exciting opportunity for a QA Analyst to join our amazing team.

Location: Gilwell Park, Chingford, London (with hybrid working)

Salary: £33,510.66 (Inclusive of Market Supplement and Outer London Weighting, Band E, Level 3)

Term: Fixed term contract until March 2024

Working Hours: 35 hours per week

We’re Scouts and everyone’s welcome here - all genders, races and backgrounds. Right across the UK, we help over 400,000 young people aged 4-25 gain skills for life and find their place in the world. We help them speak up, play their part and shine bright.

About the QA Analyst Role:

As our QA Analyst, you'll develop Test Strategies, ensure they are executed to the highest quality, plan and support test phases, and quality assure the output of our suppliers and delivery teams.

What we are looking for in our QA Analyst:

• Experience of working in an Agile development environment, Software testing methodologies
• Experience of cross browsers testing /Platform testing tool like BrowserStack
• Experience of creation and execution of Agile manual test scripts
• Experience of writing automation tests/API testing
• Demonstrable experience in creating and following Test plans 10
• Experience of CI pipelines
• Experience both working internally and with 3rd party providers
• Familiarity with CRM/SQL
• Familiarity with writing acceptance criteria in Cucumber
• Familiarity with Azure Dev Ops
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Great team player and able to work efficiently with minimal supervision
• Adapting the end-user perspective to predict the final user scenarios of product use
• Persuasion and negotiating skills

Key responsibilities as our QA Analyst:

• Review and analyse requirements, specifications, and technical design documents, providing timely feedback
• Develop detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test cases understanding requirements, acceptance criteria and solution to identify software problems
• Document results of tests for the software development team
• Identify and report issues found, then verify that issues are resolved
• Perform regression testing ,end to end, functional and non- functional testing
• Recommend improvements in software to enhance user experience
• Works together with the software developer to enhance and improve programs
• Reporting of test progression to project team and QA Manager

As our QA Analyst in return, we offer you:

• Work in a way that suits you, your role and your department
• Be proud to say you’re part of a team with Investors in People (Gold)
• Plenty of opportunity for learning and development
• 25 days holiday a year, plus bank holidays rising to 28 days after two years, then increasing again to 32 days after five years
• Four extra days to look after your family when they need you
• Three extra days over Christmas

We are proud to be a family-friendly employer and offer…

• Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Flexible working hours
• Store Discount at our Scout Store + other online benefits
• Study and volunteer leave

This will be an ongoing recruitment process until the role has been filled. Therefore this role will be removed once the post is filled.

Interviews will be held on an ongoing basis. This role will be removed once the post is filled.

The Scouts is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to diversity and actively seeking applicants from a wide range of backgrounds.

Strictly no agencies.