At a Glance
- Tasks: Join us in shaping innovative digital services through quality assurance and automation testing.
- Company: Peregrine, a forward-thinking tech company transforming public sector services.
- Benefits: Hybrid work model, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with opportunities to mentor and lead within diverse teams.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on modernising financial support services while working with cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: Strong Python skills, experience in testing, and a passion for agile methodologies.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
We are looking for a QAT Analyst with strong Python and testing experience to work at an early stage alongside enterprise architects and senior engineers. You will help research, design and prototype the foundations of a new service, with particular emphasis on automation, integration and intelligent workflows. You will join Peregrine who are supporting a large public sector organisation, starting an ambitious transformation programme focused on modernising how financial support services are delivered. The aim is to explore whether multiple existing approaches can be consolidated into a single, streamlined service. This work is at Alpha stage, with a strong focus on research, prototyping and proving technical and architectural options. This is a hands-on role suited to engineers who enjoy shaping solutions from first principles and working in exploratory delivery phases. The role is primarily remote, however travel to Newcastle may be required for sprint ceremonies and key workshops.
Responsibilities:
- Champion QAT across several teams, providing technical leadership and guidance.
- Drive collaboration across engineers of different roles both within your team and the wider teams to solve problems and enable consistent solutions and strategies.
- Build automation test solutions that help to assure the quality of our products, contribute towards their design, and look for ways to improve the value automation adds.
- Ensure that usability, accessibility, security, stability, and capacity are embedded in the development of services.
- Drive teams to take a risk-based, context-driven approach to agile testing assessing and understanding the risks to drive decisions.
- Lead the adoption of Continuous Integration/Delivery pipelines to run a full range of tests against our products and assure our builds.
- Lead the traceability of testing, risks, defects, and report progress to appropriate stakeholders across several teams.
- Be willing to challenge assumptions and current processes to help us improve.
- Drive the identification of tooling and solutions to aid constant improvements, ensuring we build the right product in the right way.
- Proactively share knowledge, solutions and support our internal communities along with mentoring, coaching, and supporting your peers.
- Maintain traceability of testing, risks, defects, and report progress to appropriate stakeholders.
Skills & Experience:
- Support the build of digital services, applications and systems for the buyer; writing and testing code to create and amend applications and infrastructure with automated and manual testing being used to make sure it works, is high quality and is bug free.
- Work alongside other testers both within your team and the wider community to solve problems and enable consistent solutions and strategies.
- Knowledge of non-functional testing e.g. Performance, Security and Accessibility, including test types, test tools, and standards.
Quality Assurance Test Analyst in Newcastle upon Tyne employer: Peregrine
Peregrine is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment where innovation and collaboration thrive. As a Quality Assurance Test Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of public sector financial support services, with opportunities for professional growth through hands-on experience in a transformative programme. Enjoy the flexibility of hybrid working while being part of a supportive team that values your contributions and encourages continuous learning.
