QA Analyst
London / Hybrid
£50,000 - £65,000
Full-time, permanent
Harrington Starr have partnered with a UK-based financial services firm for the hiring of a skilled QA Analyst to join dedicated testing teams servicing company-wide technology projects including Risk, Finance and more.
This new full-time, permanent position will see the successful candidate work effectively with the dev teams, stakeholders and wider QA team to increase and improve quality of the systems being built.
This is a manual testing role, but would suit a skilled tester within Financial Services / Financial Technology with an interest in automation as there may be opportunities to automate manual regression as this role progresses.
Core Responsibilities
Verification of functionality and quality standards on company products and components
Detection and investigation of defects, working effectively with developers through to resolution
Supporting the QA team via developing personal knowledgebase of applications, known defects, testing procedures, etc.
Writing and executing manual test scripts (using Xray). Performing manual testing of both new and existing products
Liaising with stakeholders to assist with requirements gathering, providing regular updates and demonstrations
Developing test conditions, scenarios, cases and scripts according to the specific test phases (e.g. Functional Test, Integration Test, etc.)
Defining, developing and executing test plans and test cases in order to meet the product goal
Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Ideally 4+ years’ QA & Testing experience within Financial Services or Technology environments
Database tool experience with SQL management studio, MongoDB or similar
Demonstrable API testing experience with tools such as Postman or Swagger
Log analysis and investigating experience, using tools such as Splunk or similar
Working understanding of testing methods such as smoke testing, functionality, usability, performance, regression and more
Various nice to have technology exposure to: AWS, JIRA, Xray, Bitbucket cloud
To apply for this QA Analyst job opportunity simply click apply below. If you’d like to learn more about any other Support or Testing job opportunities in London please reach out to Josh Craig on 020 3481 8763 or josh.craig@harringtonstarr.com