Uat Analyst

Our client, a major UK retail bank, provides every day banking services to over 17 million retail customers. The banks expertise and services span across Business Services, Corporate banking, Wealth Management, Group Functions, Retail and Investment Banking.
On behalf of this organisation, AMS are looking for a UAT Analyst for a 12 month contract on a remote first basis with head offices in Manchester (candidates must be UK Residents).

Purpose of the Role:

You will be looked to you to undertake testing activities to agreed timescales, cost and quality, to prove that solutions satisfy customer needs and business operating principles. You'll be supporting the delivery of testing projects, identifying impact and managing resulting change.

As a UAT Testing Analyst, you'll be supporting the completion of system integration, user acceptance and regression testing within release schedule deadlines, and escalating issues identified during testing to make sure adequate resolution or workaround is implemented.

You'll be proactively identifying areas for improvement, escalating through appropriate governance routes and working with others to ensure fit for purpose, client centric solutions. We'll look to you to provide a technical point of reference to the department on a day-to-day basis, and act as the first point of contact on key issues with associated internal and external businesses.

Responsibilities of the role:

• Providing support in highlighting all software, including non functional requirements and hardware requirements and making sure that the test environment is fit for purpose through smoke or sanity testing.
• Understanding and analysing testing requirements, working with colleagues to plan and manage the work necessary to perform and monitor testing for projects.
• Reviewing, analysing and providing feedback on project documents to aid the creation of test plans, test schedule and test strategy.
• Producing test plans to detail the approach to the planning and execution of tests for a specific phase of testing aligning to the test strategy.
• Establishing and building relationships to facilitate the achievement of goals and support the momentum of projects throughout the project lifecycle.

What we require from the candidate:

To succeed in this role, you'll need experience of UAT design and execution management, ideally including complex workflow tooling. You'll need practical experience of testing design, planning and execution, along with proven application of testing methodologies. You'll also need strong organisational skills, and the ability to plan and prioritise your workflow effectively.

You'll also demonstrate:

• Experience of systems development lifecycle.
• Experience in non functional testing-load, volume, stress, security, accessibility, compatibility, penetration and back-out.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• The ability to gather and interpret information from a range of different sources, and in a number of different ways.
• Experience and knowledge of Jira and Confluence.
• Experience of Zephyr, Postman and UiPath (desirable).

Next steps

This client will only accept workers operating via an Umbrella or PAYE engagement model.

If you are interested in applying for this position and meet the criteria outlined above, please click the link to apply and we will contact you with an update in due course.

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