Overview

Specialist role Quality assurance analyst

Summary of the work 

ONS Digital is continuing to improve its public facing digital products following the launch of the new website earlier this year. This role will work alongside the existing team to work on an ambitious roadmap to improve the scalability and stability of the platform for our users

Latest start date 12/09/16

Expected contract length 6 months

Region Wales

Organisation the work is for Office for National Statistics

About the work

Who the specialist will work with 

A multi-disciplinary agile team including UX designer, user researcher, front-end developer, back-end developer, content designer, web ops, tech arch, delivery manager and service manager
What the specialist will work on The Quality assurance analyst will be responsible for setting up a comprehensive test suite across our publishing application and website. This will include writing Selenium based automated tests but also identifying what other tools and coverage we require.

Work setup

Address where the work will take place Newport, South Wales

Working arrangements Work will be on-site in Newport (Mon-Fri) - there is the potential for work from home days by agreement with Service Manager

Security clearance Disclosure Scotland security vetting.

Skills and experience

Essential skills and experience 

• Demonstrable experience of defining or breaking down user stories and acceptance criteria using test design techniques, thereby statically testing the solution at the time.
• Demonstrable experience of helping developers in generating comprehensive unit tests and pair with them as appropriate.
• Focus on understanding what makes a solution or approach valuable to the people using it. Using quality characteristics such as functionality, reliability, usability, efficiency, maintainability and portability.
• Demonstrable experience of using a risk based approach to testing.
• Demonstrable experience of Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) and Continuous Integration (CI) and some of the tools that are used.
• At least 3 years’ experience of Test Automation in an Agile environment, including setting up and using frameworks which include Specflow/Cucumber and Selenium.
• Proven experience in API testing within Agile sprints.
• Proven experience of accessibility testing within sprints and presenting findings back to the team.
• Proven experience of performance testing web based applications and presenting findings back to the team.
• Produce Test Approaches and Sprint Test Plans collaboratively with the team and suppliers, owning the documentation and managing its completion
• Demonstrable experience of Non-Functional requirements, definition and testing.
• Demonstrable experience in exploratory testing techniques and knowing the difference between ad hoc testing and exploratory.
• Confident in explaining decisions to stakeholders who don’t understand agile, user needs or user-centred design and delivery.

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