Quality Assurance Analyst
- Salary
- £45K
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- United Kingdom
- Work type
- Hybrid
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Quality Assurance Analyst
A fantastic opportunity for a Quality Assurance Analyst to join an established technology company developing software used by businesses across the UK. Working closely with QA and Development colleagues, you will help ensure new features and existing products deliver a reliable customer experience. This role is predominantly focused on manual testing, with the opportunity to use your practical experience of AI tools to identify repetitive testing tasks and automate them.
Location: Village location outside Ipswich, Suffolk. Hybrid working with 2 days per week in the office. Please note this location is not realistically commutable from London.
Salary: £45,000 per annum + benefits
Requirements for Quality Assurance Analyst:
- Commercial experience in a software QA or testing role, with a strong grounding in manual testing
- Practical experience using AI-powered tools to create or run automated testing tasks or QA workflows, with the ability to explain what you automated and how you checked the results
- Ability to recognise repetitive tasks that would benefit from automation and use AI tools to build a suitable solution
- Experience creating test plans and test cases, executing tests and clearly reporting results
- Understanding of regression testing and how to check that software changes have not affected existing functionality
- Familiarity with the software development lifecycle and working collaboratively with developers
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, including investigating defects and helping identify their underlying causes
- Excellent attention to detail, with a methodical approach and a focus on the customer experience
- Clear communication skills and the ability to prioritise testing, estimate timescales and manage your own workload
- Experience writing or reviewing test cases in Gherkin format is beneficial
- Experience with any of the following is beneficial: Jira, TestRail, Zephyr, Postman, Bruno, Playwright, Selenium or TypeScript
- A degree is beneficial
Responsibilities for Quality Assurance Analyst:
- Take ownership of testing assigned features, working closely with QA and Development colleagues
- Plan and carry out predominantly manual testing across new features and existing software
- Create, review and maintain test plans, test cases and regression packs
- Identify repetitive QA activities and use AI-powered tools to automate suitable tasks, checking that the outputs are accurate and reliable
- Record, investigate and retest defects, providing developers with clear information to support resolution
- Assess the impact of defects on customers and help prioritise issues according to risk
- Produce clear test execution reports and communicate progress, findings and outstanding issues to relevant stakeholders
- Support the coordination of testing with developers and end users
- Investigate recurring issues and contribute to root cause analysis and lasting improvements
- Support junior QA colleagues and contribute to consistent testing practices across the team
What the role offers:
- The opportunity to take ownership of software quality and directly improve the customer experience
- A predominantly manual testing role with scope to put your AI automation experience into practice
- A collaborative environment where you can contribute ideas and help improve how testing is delivered
Applications:
If you would like to apply for this unique Quality Assurance role, then please send your CV via the relevant links!
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