Technical Test Analyst

Venn Group

Technical Test Analyst
Recruitment Agency Reference:

Daily Rate DOE (Inside IR35)

Location: Remote/London

This is a UK eyes only project and candidates must have a valid SC clearance upon application

A position has arisen for an experienced Technical Test Analyst within a leading policing organisation, to work within the ICT Test Team. This is an essential role providing specialist testing services and assuring the delivery of new (and upgrades to existing) business-critical IT systems. The Technical Test Analyst will work alongside members of the ICT Test Team, Developers, Business Analysts, and Project Managers, Technical Architects and Database Engineers, and other important stakeholders, to deliver a robust and rigorous testing service to assure the successful integration and deployment of both in-house and third-party delivered software components.

Responsibilities:

• Work alongside solution suppliers (both third-party and in-house) to develop Detailed Test Plans (both functional and non-functional) and ensuring their implementation

• Produce required test artefacts (incl. Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, and Reports)

• Working with SMEs, Business Analysts and other stakeholders to elicit detailed test requirements and acceptance criteria

• Logging and tracking defects

• Creating and executing test cases and manual (procedural) test scripts

• Creating and executing test automation scripts (where appropriate)

• Performing exploratory testing

• Performing data migration testing – utilising ETL tools (where appropriate)

• Performing regression testing (manual and automated)

• Support User Acceptance / Business Validation testing (where appropriate)

Essential experience:

• Valid SC Clearance

• Experience of delivering the testing across multiple IT delivery projects

• Experience of implementing Detailed Test Plans

• Experience in functional test execution and reporting

• Experience of non-functional (e.g., performance) test execution and reporting

• Experience with test management and defect tracking tools (e.g., Jira)

• Experience in testing web based applications, front-end and back-end

• Experience of implementing test automation tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium)

• Experience of performance testing tools (e.g., J-Meter, Gatling)

• Experience of common DevOps practices and tooling (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins)

Please note: candidates will need to satisfy security criteria.

If you are interested in this position or would like to find out more about similar roles please contact Joanna Hutchings and email your updated CV to jhutchings@venngroup.com

Venn Group is an equal opportunities employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.