Quality Analyst


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Listed on

24th September 2014

Location

Edinburgh

Salary/Rate

£29000 - £32000

Type

Permanent

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Looking for a new challenge?

An exciting new opportunity had arisen with my Edinburgh based client who are one of the UK's top suppliers of point of sale technology. For over 30 years they have helped companies achieve their business goals - large or small. My client delivers world-class solutions, built around individual customer needs.

Their unrivalled financial stability and success has enabled the business to invest significantly in product development, and they lead the market with innovation especially in the field of customer engagement, optimising the power of social media and digital marketing.

Their software includes powerful functionality used daily in over 20 of the top 30 hospitality companies in the UK to successfully reduce costs and increase profit.

From the success of the past couple of years, my client are looking for a Quality Analyst to join their growing team ensuring that their web and mobile products meet their non-functional targets. Ideally you will have a minimum of 2 years' experience in a software testing environment with the ability to learn and understand complex systems.

Core Responsibilities

* Generating functional, system and regression test cases and procedures within agreed timescales

* Test execution at integration and system test levels

* Attending review meetings at different stages during the development process with the aim of influencing stakeholders, reporting and facilitating overall system quality

* Reviewing requirements specifications, functional specifications and other development documentation

* Creating and maintaining test data and environment permutations

* Effective logging, monitoring and retest of all bugs found during testing

* Escalating any issues likely to affect the project scope or timescales

Essential Requirements

* Experience of working with VMware and/or Virtual PC

* Experience in Web and Mobile testing

* Microsoft Windows experience

* Database proficiency (SQL Server) or other RDBS

* Understanding of web technologies, browsers and client-side technologies, browser/application server interactions

* Excellent problem solving skills to analyse information appropriately and find best solutions taking a balanced view to reach logical conclusions and make relevant decisions

* Organisational skills to establish efficient and appropriate plans for self and others and adapt quickly and effectively to unexpected changes whilst still ensuring objectives are met

* Flexible/agile in test efforts across multiple work streams whilst reporting efficiently

* Understand and respond to customer needs (internal and external) and exceed expectations where possible

* Work co-operatively with others to achieve a common goal and communicate information in a clear, concise and accurate manner

* Ability to be commercially and organisationally focused on the overall business and issues facing company

* Committed to obtaining results through taking responsibility, demonstrating a positive attitude and ensuring quality is built into work

Desirable Requirements

* Knowledge of EPOS systems and/or hospitality industry would be an advantage

* Experience in different SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) models such as iterative and/or agile

* Understanding programming languages and scripting in one of the following: Ruby, Perl, Python, or JavaScript

* Experience of software tools which automate or assist the testing process

* Knowledge of bug reporting and user story tools (e.g. Team Foundation Server, Bugzilla, JIRA, Fogbugz)

* Willingness to provide out of hours support as and when required (Not the norm)

Please apply directly or contact Farrah Ather on 0131 558 4808.

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