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SalaryTest Analyst
12 Month Fixed-Term Contract, Full-Time, 37.5 hours per week
Salary circa £35,000 (negotiable dependent on experience)
IB Global Centre, Cardiff
Are you looking to work for a global organization with a meaningful mission? Would you like your professional skills to make a difference in the world? Do you want to work with colleagues all over the world who work together to achieve common goals? If so, then we may have the ideal opportunity for you.
About the IB
The International Baccalaureate provides world-class educational services to over 5500 schools across 159 countries. A career at IB is not just a job; it’s an opportunity to work with an innovative world leader of education services and contribute to our 50-year mission of creating a better and more peaceful world.
We’re accepting applications for a Test Analyst to join us on a 12 Month Fixed-Term-Contract to support our business whilst a colleague is seconded into a Global Digital Project. This is a hybrid working opportunity ideally requiring a minimum of one day per week onsite in Cardiff. We operate Flexible Working Hours, with our core hours between 10am-12pm and 2pm-3pm (our office is open from 7am-7pm, Monday to Thursday).
Job Purpose:
The Test Analyst plays a key role in the organisation by ensuring the quality and reliability of software products by providing quality assurance and testing support services to projects and business-as-usual activities. The purpose of the role is to improve software quality by testing software products based on requirements analysis throughout project and business-as-usual activities, thereby enabling the capture of bugs early in development and change processes.
- Prepare, maintain, execute, and report on test artefacts. To include test planning, scripting, execution, regression, and reporting.
- Ensure correct test processes and approaches are implemented, bugs are identified and resolved, and reporting is provided to guide implementation processes.
- Ensure test artifacts are maintained, updated, and executed in line with business process changes.
- Identify and apply suitable testing techniques and processes for project and BAU activities.
- Identify manual scripts that are suitable for automation.
- Advise on functionality and help with functional trouble shooting.
- Contribute to creation of automated scripts.
- Identify and report on software defects, working closely with developers to resolve issues.
- Provide guidance to external suppliers to ensure they are fully conversant with IB testing standards and deliverable expectations.
- Review the work of external suppliers to ensure they are compliant with IB testing standards and deliverable expectations.
- Provide stakeholder reporting throughout the test phases using Azure dashboards and other reporting functionalities.
- Contribute to decisions in bug management.
- Advise and recommend next development steps based on test case outcomes.
- Contribute to decisions on test approach.
- Proven experience of software testing on numerous projects, including writing formal test documentation and executing test scripts.
- Experienced with Azure DevOps
- ISEB Intermediate Certificate in Software Testing (or equivalent commercial testing experience).
- Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, best practices, and quality assurance principles.
- Experience of maintaining a stable test environment to ensure test systems / data are fit for purpose.
- Practical experience of Agile development methodologies and ability to work effectively within an Agile Scrum team.
- Strong analytical skills and experience of analyzing requirements and technical documentation to extract test conditions.
- Effective communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
- Experience of using of Azure Boards: Sprint task board management and tracking of assigned tasks.
- Working experience of Azure Test Plans or similar applications: Script writing, test plan creation, test execution, dashboard creation & maintenance.
- Ability to use technical data manipulation techniques to interrogate backend databases.
- 10% employer pension contribution
- Enhanced family friendly benefits
- 25 Days annual leave, plus public holidays, with the option to buy up to 5 days additional annual leave
- Life assurance 4x annual salary
- Paid volunteering leave
- Excellent continuous professional development
- Flexible benefits allowance (1.5% of salary)
- Health and wellness schemes
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Discounts on a range of products, including days out
- Cash back opportunities available from a wide range of retailers
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Free on-site car parking
Applications to be accepted until 14 April 23:59 2024
We are committed to building a working environment that values respect, diversity, and compassion. The International Baccalaureate is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified applicants.
