Senior QAT (AWS, SQL, Cloud) - MUST HAVE SC CLEARANCE - Remote - 2 months+
Posted 1 day ago by Octopus Computer Associates
£448 Per day
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Remote , UK
Summary: The Senior QAT role focuses on quality assurance testing within AWS and SQL environments, requiring SC clearance. The position involves designing and executing tests, managing defects, and facilitating communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders. The role is remote and is expected to last for over two months. Candidates must have experience with cloud hosting and be adept at leading testing strategies and defect management processes.
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 the development of standards for defect management processes.
- Leading test analysis and quality planning, working with teams to implement quality testing approaches and strategies.
- Communicating effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders to manage expectations and facilitate discussions.
Key Skills:
- Experience in quality assurance testing, particularly with SQL and AWS cloud hosting.
- Strong communication skills for interacting with diverse stakeholders.
- Ability to design, build, maintain, and execute tests aligned with user needs.
- Proficiency in defect management and risk mitigation strategies.
Salary (Rate): £448 per day
City: undetermined
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Senior QAT (AWS, SQL, Cloud) - MUST HAVE SC CLEARANCE - Remote - 2 months+/RATE: £448 per day inside IR35
One of our Blue Chip Clients is urgently looking for a Senior QAT (AWS, SQL, Cloud)
Please find some details below:
Description:
Clearance required: BPSS + New SC
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. Other known technologies, as described from the current contract: 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
Please send CV for full details and immediate interviews. We are a preferred supplier to the client.