QA Test Analyst - 6 month day rate contract - €250 per day
Hybrid - 3 days onsite in Dublin
2-4 years experience in Test / QA role required
What you will be responsible for
· Participate in all project related meetings to get better understanding of core applications and requirements from Business Team.
· Create and / or maintain test suites for a wide variety of investment systems for ongoing application releases: functional and regression testing.
· Record all test case results, communicate same to development, business analysts, project managers and business sponsors.
· Input to test automation strategy (automation scripts are developed by automation engineers).
· Support user test planning to ensure change management processes are adhered to.
· Coordinate test efforts carried out by business users across different functions and locations, often involving third parties, as required.
· Support business user testing by providing appropriate test data and test conditions.
· Liaise with business users to ensure all changes achieve the required level of User Acceptance Testing prior to release sign-off.
· Manage and coordinate test setup of multiple applications and test environments.
· Liaise with IT Operations and Development Team to manage the release testing in accordance with release procedure.
What we value for the role
- Ability to learn on the job to take ownership of all aspects of release testing.
- Attention to quality and detail.
- A history of working to tight project schedules and delivering successfully.
- Motivated, enthusiastic individual with ability to work on own initiative.
- Team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to grasp and work with financial and newly developed in-house applications as well as overall understanding of system development lifecycles.
- Financial experience is an advantage.
- Comfortable working alongside both business users and IT technical staff.
- Confident in dealing with clients – both internal and external – professional attitude at all times.
Education & Preferred Qualifications
· Expected third level qualification in a technical or business-related discipline.
· Familiarity with automation test tools and scripting languages is desirable.
· Experience in testing a wide range of financial applications is essential.
· Experience with SQL, sufficient knowledge to create moderately complex SQL queries, is required.
· Experience with Agile Development Methodology is desirable.
2-4 years proven background as a Software Tester / QA analyst.
Please note this is not a Senior role and day rate will reflect that.
Please call Michael for more information 01 614 6058 or e:[email protected]
