QA Analyst
Posted Today by Whitehall Resources
Negotiable
Inside
Remote
City of London, London
Summary: Whitehall Resources is seeking a QA Analyst for a 2-month contract, requiring full remote work and eligibility for SC clearance. The role involves extensive experience with SQL and AWS, focusing on test design, execution, and defect management while facilitating communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders. The position is classified as inside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Designing and executing tests, setting up suitable environments, and influencing the use of appropriate test types and techniques.
- Managing, reporting, and resolving defects while contributing to developing standards for defect management processes.
- Communicating between technical and non-technical stakeholders and managing their expectations.
- Leading test analysis and quality planning, ensuring test needs are implemented early.
- Using defect patterns and trends to make recommendations on testing and quality approaches.
- Contributing to mitigation and contingency plans across teams.
- Advocating for full team ownership of quality testing activities.
Key Skills:
- Experience with SQL and Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud hosting.
- Strong communication skills for interacting with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to design and execute tests and manage defects effectively.
- Experience in test analysis and quality planning.
- Knowledge of defect management processes and quality testing strategies.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: City of London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Whitehall Resources require a QA Analyst to work with a key client on a 2 month initial contract.
*Full remote working.
*Inside IR35.
*Candidates are required to be eligible for SC clearance.
QA Analyst
* Experienced QA with SQL, Amazon Web Services cloud hosting. The validations and rules, export procedures, etc. implemented for MERMAN+ are all stored as SQL metadata. There has been some customisation done for authentication and access management to make the gov gateway to act as IdP, the IAM service act as RBAC manager, and we use AWS Cognito to help translate this to the SpringBoot java application on which the collection engine runs.
* Communicating between the technical and non-technical, listen to and interpret the needs of technical and non-technical stakeholders, and manage their expectations. Manage active and reactive communication support or host difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders.
* Designing and executing tests, set up suitable environments, influence and guide the use of appropriate test types and techniques to mitigate risk early, lead others in designing, building, maintaining and executing tests that align to user needs and requirements, contribute to developing and implementing standards for designing and executing tests
* Improve test types and techniques through a structured process
* Managing, reporting and resolving defects
* Contribute to developing standards for defect management processes
* Manage and escalate dependencies, defects and risks across teams
* Contribute to mitigation and contingency plans across teams
* Use defect patterns and trends to make recommendations on testing and quality approaches, with support
* Manage stakeholder expectations and communications during defect resolution
* Test analysis
* Lead work with stakeholders across teams to determine which functional and non-functional quality characteristics add value
* Determine if an approach needs to change based on effort and risk
* Ensure test needs are implemented early
* Use multiple techniques to analyse complex information to identify risks
* Lead others in test analysis
* Test and quality planning
* Work with teams to develop and implement appropriate quality testing approaches, plans and strategies
* Contribute to organisational quality testing strategies
* Implement ways to capture data to drive continuous improvement of quality testing approaches, plans and strategies
* Advocate for full team ownership of quality testing activities, encouraging early engagement
All of our opportunities require that applicants are eligible to work in the specified country/location, unless otherwise stated in the job description.
Whitehall Resources are an equal opportunities employer who value a diverse and inclusive working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.
