Senior Test Analyst
Posted 3 days ago by TESTQ Technologies Limited
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Test Analyst role involves collaborating with development and QA teams to define requirements and ensure comprehensive acceptance criteria. The position requires overseeing risk assessments, managing defect tracking, and improving quality metrics while aligning test automation strategies with organizational goals. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in SAP QA, particularly within the financial services sector, and possess strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborates with development/QA teams to define requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Performs and oversees comprehensive risk assessments, prioritizing mitigation of functional and non-functional threats.
- Defines and co-owns the test automation quality strategy, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
- Oversees test planning and resolves dependencies or conflicts to uphold quality standards.
- Ensures integration of functional and non-functional acceptance criteria into planning and reviews.
- Manages defect tracking, categorizing, and prioritizing resolutions for functional failures and non-functional shortfalls.
- Measures and improves quality metrics covering functional outcomes benchmarks.
Key Skills:
- 3+ years of SAP QA experience, preferably in a financial services or banking environment.
- Demonstrated experience as a Business Analyst on IT programmes.
- ITIL Foundation Certification.
- Strong knowledge of ServiceNow (SNOW), particularly Change Management and CMDB.
- Understanding of ITSM processes in a regulated environment.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
- Experience in the banking/financial services sector, particularly in regulatory or finance systems.
- Exposure to Agile methodologies or hybrid delivery frameworks.
- Analytical thinking and attention to detail.
- Strong documentation and communication skills.
- Team player with a proactive approach to problem-solving.
- Ability to work under pressure and deliver to tight deadlines in a regulated environment.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
DELIVERABLES Collaborates with development/QA teams to define requirements and ensure the acceptance criteria encompasses complete functional objectives (e.g. features, workflows, integration). Performs and oversees comprehensive risk assessments, prioritising the mitigation of functional failure modes (e.g. critical defects, integration issues) and non-functional threats (e.g. performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, compliance gaps). Helps to define and co-owns the overarching test automation quality strategy for the practice, ensuring automated functional testing is aligned with capability and organisational goals. Oversees and coordinates test planning, resolving dependencies or conflicts to uphold quality standards at scale. Ensures squads integrate both functional and non-functional acceptance criteria into planning and reviews whilst communicating testing progress, risk, and opportunities to capability leadership. Manages defect tracking categorising and prioritising both functional failures and non-functional shortfalls ensuring systematic, consistent resolution. Measures and improves quality metrics – covering functional outcomes benchmarks.
EXPECTED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE 3+ years of SAP QA experience, preferably in a financial services or banking environment. Demonstrated experience as a Business Analyst, ideally on IT programmes. ITIL Foundation Certification. Strong knowledge of ServiceNow (SNOW) – particularly Change Management and CMDB. Understanding of ITSM processes in a regulated environment. Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills – able to interface with risk, compliance, and operational teams. Experience in the banking/financial services sector, particularly in regulatory or finance systems. Exposure to Agile methodologies or hybrid delivery frameworks. Analytical thinking and attention to detail Strong documentation and communication skills Team player with proactive approach to problem-solving Ability to work under pressure and deliver to tight deadlines in a regulated environment Need SAP QA + servicenow (SNOW) and ITSM , ITIL certification