Senior Test Analyst

We are the public body that looks after England’s historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them.

Historic England have a fantastic opportunity for you to become our Senior Test Analyst.

This role is an integral part of our Testing Service and IT Governance QA work stream, working with our Agile & Waterfall Project Teams and Operational Service & Delivery Teams to drive up quality assurance of IT changes, improvements and innovation work streams and initiatives.  This role will robustly champion and deliver a wide variety of testing types from system, integration, regression, performance, accessibility, to functional and UAT disciplines, across our diverse software, hardware and User network.

The location of this role is National where we offer hybrid working, you will be based in one of our following offices and from home - Newcastle, York, Manchester, Birmingham, Swindon, Bristol, Portsmouth and Cambridge. 

Salary

National salary range: £31,912 - £35,000 pro-rata

Cambridge: £35,301 - £37,750 pro-rata

What you will be doing

You will be Responsible for confirming individual components meet project requirements to ensure overall compliance with project and industry definitions, UAT and ultimately the product Acceptance Criteria.

Gathering of all testing requirements, assessing and agreeing test coverage (including negative testing scenarios) and test suites with Project Stakeholders.

Be Responsible for setting up the Test Suites, predominantly but not exclusively, within Azure DevOps, ensuring site features etc for the wider Project site are configured correctly, from the Project outset.

Setting up required test environments, including representative hardware and process start points, volume harvesting, manipulating (including anonymising) and migrating of suitable test data.

Attend and actively contribute to all Project Team processes and ceremonies including Daily Stand Ups, Sprint Planning sessions, Reviews and Retrospectives, organise and lead Defect Reviews and participate in Product Owner ‘Show & Tells’. Interpret relevant information to support testing activities.

Assist business stakeholders in backlog refinement ceremonies, define understandable and testable user stories and their acceptance criteria.  Actively support them to define and agree the Project ‘Definition of Done’ and regularly recalibrate their Story Pointing for each Project Sprint.

Create and maintain a full suite of prioritised Test Plans, Cases, Scripts and related risk assessments for each project.  Provide the Project/Scrum Master and the wider Project Team with timely and accurate Test Estimates for each.

Diligently, accurately and uniformly execute test runs ensuring all positive outcomes as well as bugs and defects are clearly recorded, reported and stored for review, usually within the Azure DevOps Test Suite Repository.

Provide accurately recorded, timely and constructive direct feedback to Developers.

Create, develop and maintain a suite of Regression Testing Scripts for each Project, from Sprint 1, and lead on the automation of these.

Organise and structure any User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities, managing all the set-up (environments, data, hardware, licenses etc), user awareness/training, templates, SharePoint defect lists, artefacts, outcomes and reports. Responsible for ensuring the UAT testing delivery is accurately resourced, recorded and is of the required standard to allow Product Owners and other Project Stakeholders to evaluate for Product sign off into live.

Provide Test Closure Reports using Azure DevOps Testing Suite and other tools as required.

Who we are looking for

• ISTQB Test Foundation certified

• Azure DevOps experienced

• Agile methodology Project & Product Testing experienced

• Evidence of continuous self development in software testing tools and techniques

• Functional, System, Performance, Accessibility and User Acceptance Testing experience evidence

• Evidence of defect management experience

• Evidence of Test Automation Experience

We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you. Having just won the Gold Award from MIND, we also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance.

We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We want to make sure our working arrangements don’t prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances. We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can.

We are open to considering options including job sharing, part-time working, compressed hours working and different working locations, including hybrid working. Please visit our jobs pages or contact us to find out more.

Why work for Historic England

We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive pension scheme starting at 26% contributions, a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the country and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals.

We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for everyone. Diversity helps us to perform better and attract more people to support our work. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and candidates with disabilities as they are underrepresented within Historic England at this level.