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Home > Info > Careers > Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Job Purpose and Background

CDP is looking for a capable Senior Quality Assurance Analyst who will be responsible for delivering high quality in software testing and assurance for CDP’s software to internal and external users, with a focus on early identification of issues to minimise impact on the end user. They will work primarily as part of the DevOps team supporting digitally enabled products and services but will also support the wider application set as required, particularly Disclosure which is our main business process.

About the Technology Team 

Dependable, efficient, innovative, and effective technology services are critical to the core function of CDP and enabling it to deliver its core mission.  As part of its strategic ambitions CDP has recognised an uplift to technology operations and capabilities is critical to realise its strategic goals of higher impact, improved stakeholder experience and disclosure information.  Therefore, we are strengthening the technology function to provide a clear vision and roadmap of the technology landscape, to improve our relationship to key internal and external stakeholders and to build the technology capabilities needed to deliver CDP’s outcomes, while providing a resilient, stable, secure, and cost-effective IT service.   

About the role

The Senior Quality Assurance Analyst will be responsible for setting the foundations of manual testing and automation testing best practices. The passionate and driven candidate will have the opportunity to build out automation test framework within the business as usual department and set the standards for any new projects in the pipeline, whilst taking into consideration the adoption of the shift left approach by identifying defects and bugs as early as possible. They will be working with the latest technologies and tool set environment and ensure high quality testing and assurance is carried out and adhered to by other team members. This role will include upskilling other members of the team to learn test automation.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an individual to make a real difference to work for an organisation which helps investors, companies, cities, states and regions to manage their environment impact, this goes hand in hand with delivering high quality testing through our platforms to make a difference to our living environment.

Key responsibilities include: 

  • Experience in building test automation frameworks from scratch (Split role with approx. 50% hands on automation and 50% on manual testing)
  • Proficient at creating, maintaining, and developing test scripts both front end and backend systems (GUI’s, Flat file transfer, API’s, Databases etc)
  • Improving the quality of the software delivered to users.
  • Developing test strategies, test plans, techniques and manage all testing efforts within BAU function and new project developments.
  • Produce test scripts and regression suites for new and amended software.
  • Responsible for test planning and execution of system related tests including integration, regression tests.
  • Design and implement defect tracking and correction procedures with use of best practices and test tools available.
  • Planning and carrying out system testing of software, including verifying once its delivered to production, whilst working with end users to understand requirements and acceptance criteria and translate them into high level and low level test scenarios and case.
  • Supporting user acceptance testing with data preparation and test case creation tasks.
  • Responsibility for covering the Senior Quality Assurance Manager if off sick and on leave.
  • Ability to drive testing phases from start to end by leading small test teams including business users.
  • Able to plan, schedule and monitor work to meet tight deadlines and quality targets.
  • Apply the appropriate test measurements and metrics.
  • They will need to develop and maintain technical/ project QA documentation.

Required skills and experience: 

  • Expert knowledge and experience of, but not limited to:
  • Manual testing
  • Automation Testing - Selenium web driver, API testing, postman, GUI.
  • Familiar and adhere to TDD & BDD approaches and best practices.
  • Test Management Tools – ALM, JIRA, X-Ray, Azure Dev Ops or similar tool sets.
  • Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in software testing with use of both automation and manual testing.
  • ISTQB Foundation in Software Testing Certification.
  • Bachelor’s degree in IT, Engineering, Computer Science or related field or equivalence years of experience in the IT domain.
  • Proven experience in architecting, implemented and maintaining automation frameworks.
  • Experience of planning and executing tests on web applications and Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM.
  • The ability to investigate and trouble-shoot a wide range of technical problems.
  • Has a process orientated and systematic approach to planning and problem solving through consistent approach with high expectations of quality and integrity.
  • The person will need to be Committed, self-starter, quick learner, results driven, self-reflective team player versatile with open mind when learning new technologies and tools.
  • Maintains an awareness of developing best practices and takes responsibility for driving their own development.
  • Stakeholder engagement, able to build relationships and use expertise to influence and help your colleagues use tools to achieve their outcomes.
  • Excellent communication, verbal and knowledge skills in problem analysis, risk management and continual improvement.
  • Has a thorough understanding of testing best practices such as Agile (Scrum) or DevOps methodologies.

Desired skills and experience

  • ITIL process understanding.
  • Exposure in Climate change data legislation, practices, and stakeholders.
  • Experience in environmental related industries i.e., Water, energy, forestry related.
  • Experiencing using SQL, oracle and similar database technologies running queries would be beneficial.

This is a full-time based at CDP’s London office reporting to the Senior Quality Assurance & Change Manager, Technology & Operations.

Salary and benefits: £45,000 - £48,000 per annum dependent on experience, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.  Generous non-contributory pension provision, annual discretionary bonus (depending on company performance), Employee Assistance Program, life assurance, Training and development, Flexible working opportunities, and others.

Interested applicants must be eligible to work legally in the United Kingdom.

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How to apply

To apply please email your CV and a covering letter setting out how you meet the required skills and experience or key responsibilities, which should be no more than two pages, to [email protected] with ‘Senior Quality Assurance Analyst, First name and Surname”  in the subject.  The deadline is midnight GMT on 25th June 2021.


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