At a Glance
- Tasks: Own testing activities, ensuring products meet all requirements and standards.
- Company: Join a leading digital transformation programme in a dynamic environment.
- Benefits: Competitive day rate, flexible working, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Work with cutting-edge technology and collaborate with diverse teams.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on innovative projects while developing your skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in testing, strong analytical skills, and knowledge of automation tools.
The predicted salary is between 51750 - 63250 £ per year.
Tester Analyst
Contract
Initial 6 Months
Day Rate
Circa £450 Inside IR35
Location
Reading
Start Date
ASAP
Security Clearance
Active SC clearance
We are looking for experienced SDP Tester Analysts to join a large-scale digital transformation programme, supporting the Test Manager across the SDP Value
Streams: Cloud Hosting, Enterprise Services, End-Users, IDAM, and LSSI.
As a Tester Analyst, you will take ownership of testing activities within your assigned value stream, working closely with Test Managers, Product Owners, developers, and wider technical stakeholders to ensure products meet business, technical, and security requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyse and review business requirements, HLDs, LLDs, User Stories, and Acceptance Criteria to ensure they are clear, complete, and testable.
- Quickly develop knowledge of SDP products and provide operational and techno-functional support where required.
- Design comprehensive test scenarios, test cases, and test plans based on requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Execute manual and automated functional and non-functional testing.
- Conduct usability, performance, load, security, regression, and other testing activities.
- Develop and maintain testing dashboards, providing clear visibility of progress, risks, and test status.
- Produce test reports at the end of each test execution.
- Identify, document, and manage defects through to resolution.
- Participate in defect reviews, daily testing meetings, and technical walkthroughs.
- Carry out follow-up and regression testing following defect resolution.
- Escalate testing risks, issues, and dependencies where appropriate.
Skills & Experience
- Experience in a similar testing role, ideally within consulting or complex enterprise environments.
- Mandatory security clearance and experience working with restricted information.
- Strong background in IT, digital, technology, or software delivery environments.
- Proven experience in both manual and automated testing.
- Hands-on experience with tools/frameworks such as Selenium and Browser Stack.
- Experience in performance, load, and security testing, using tools such as JMeter, OWASP ZAP, or Burp Suite.
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), including integrating testing into automated delivery pipelines.
- Experience with Python, Java, and/or Java Script.
- Experience using test and work management platforms such as Jira and Azure Dev Ops.
- Good understanding of Agile methodologies and Azure Dev Ops ways of working.
- Strong analytical, organisational, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and coordinate testing workloads across teams.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience producing executive-level reporting, dashboards, and test metrics.
- Advanced experience with Excel, Power BI, Jira, Azure Dev Ops, or similar reporting and monitoring tools.
- Experience working within formal governance and demand-management frameworks.
- Experience with large-scale enterprise or digital transformation programmes.
- Experience coordinating testing across multiple technology streams.
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Tester Analyst in Reading employer: Advanced Resource Managers Ltd
At Advanced Resource Managers Ltd, we pride ourselves on being an excellent employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters collaboration and innovation. Our Suffolk location provides a unique opportunity to engage in significant infrastructure projects while benefiting from professional growth through continuous training and development. We value our employees by providing competitive benefits and a supportive environment that encourages leadership and impactful contributions to major initiatives.
Contact Details:
Advanced Resource Managers Ltd Recruitment Team
