·         Experience of managing client relationships at a senior level, taking ownership for reporting, managing service reviews, and developing and agreeing test strategies.

·         Experience of leading and successfully managing testing/project teams.

·         Your experience will cover some of the following testing areas: system, load, performance, end to end, regression, UA testing and defect management.

·         Strong understanding of the retail sector and retail systems.

·         Experience in the use of a range of testing tools, e.g. Mantis, Quality Centre, Bugzilla, Jira, TestLink, Test Director, QTP.

·         Flexible to work on client sites for extended durations to deliver testing projects.

They are looking for a Manual Tester with experience in SQL and who has hands on experience with PUTTY. This Manual Tester will have a broad understanding of web technologies such at HTML, CSS and Javascript and will also have exposure to the full lifecycle from initially gathering the requirement to testing in production.

This is an initial 3 month contract to start ASAP.

Agile QA Engineer needed for a Scrum team in Mid-Sussex. This is a new post within the organisation and will be responsible for maintaining high standards of performance and reliability for external customers purchasing products.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate a background in testing web-based applications, some knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, CSS and SQL would also be advantageous in identifying and diagnosing issues. The role will involve the ground up creation and management of test plans for the suite of ASP/.NET based online payment applications. Development uses a agile methodology (SCRUM) so experience in working in this way would be an advantage.

The organization are also looking to put in place automated testing of all new client implementations and would be interested in candidates that can bring experience of this with them.

This is a new role and provides a great the opportunity for the successful candidate to shape and define how the full Quality Assurance process is handled, it’s an opportunity to implement your own ideas and to grow the role.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate a background in testing web-based applications, some knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, CSS and SQL would also be advantageous in identifying and diagnosing issues.

Salary to £30K with attractive pension.

Outstanding Senior Test Analyst/Test Manager Vacancy at a well known retail brand

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Senior Test Analyst to step up into a management role and work for a web development team integral to the ecommerce part of a well know fashion retail brand.

Candidates will be interested in emerging technologies and be familiar with the working principles of Agile and Scrum. Anyone looking for a high profile challenging role should apply or get in touch ASAP.

Any automation experience with selenium/php_unit/Jmeter is beneficial.

This opportunity will encourage you to not only develop your current skills but grow and develop new skills alongside some of the best people within the IT industry.

We’re looking for…

What’s the role?

You are someone who:

The ideal QA Test analyst will have good experience/knowledge of the transactional side of  Ecommerce QA Testing.
i.e. Good knowledge of the transactional process, Payments checking and verification etc. 
Website QA testing also involved i.e. functional, regression, browser compatibility
Good communication skills are essential as well as being able to conduct end-to-end testing on web-
based applications & websites.

The role will involve ensuring testing processes are consistent with the agreed test strategy and end-to-end model. In addition to conducting test reviews of business Requirements, determining the appropriate test approach and performing business acceptance testing and business verification testing.

Candidates will also be required to coordinate test activities to deliver strategies, provide advice and guidance on test methods, techniques and tools with the aim a implementing the best approach to testing an facilitating the business through this process.

You will work as an essential part of a growing BAT team to plan and manage testing activities across a wide range of projects, improving on test processes and building excellent working relations with external IT suppliers and internal business customers.

Key skills

• Proven track record in Business Acceptance Testing
• Good working knowledge of the software testing life cycle and a good understanding of ITIL processes.
• Demonstrable experience of working with Quality Centre
• Good communication skills both verbal and written, able to communicate to Stakeholders at all levels using appropriate – non technical language
• ISEB/ISTQB qualification or equivalent industry level experience