QA Tester in Telford

QA Tester
Location: Mostly remote (Telford, 2 days per month in the office)
Day Rate: £400/day, Inside IR35
Duration: 6 months
Clearance: You can start with BPSS only. You'll go through the SC process once you join. SC is preferred but not required.
Sector: Public
A major public sector data programme needs a QA Tester to join an Agile delivery team. You'll write the Test Approach document, carry out Functional System Testing and Integration Testing, and support end-to-end testing on a data extract project. The work includes analysing customer requirements and technical documentation, identifying test scenarios, writing test scripts, preparing test data and running and recording tests.
The role needs an excellent understanding of test techniques and Risk Based Testing, so you can verify outcomes against expected results and record them for audit trails. You'll work closely with the delivery team and key stakeholders to achieve the business objectives.
Responsibilities:
Check and assess requirements, including the testability of designs
Create low-level test plans and test scripts, and set up test data
Run and record tests
Give regular status reports to the Delivery Manager
Identify and raise project and product risks and issues
Required skills:
Talend as an ETL tool
Testing Oracle RDS solutions
Test data preparation and creation
Functional system test experience
Test tools (e.g. test automation, Postman)
Agile methodology
Data warehouse and marts
Data migration
Writing Test Approach and Test Completion reports
Jira and Confluence
Test management tools (e.g. Zephyr)
ETL experience