Senior QA Analyst

We’re looking for a Senior QA Analyst who will be responsible for the QA of the website and Services ensuring a consistently high level of code quality. Working within the delivery team you will be responsible for improving QA, working alongside BA's, technical leads and testers to create and review tests and acceptance criteria.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Ensuring the technical direction of the QA team in liaison with the Lead QA ensuring that the team are aware of the importance of principles of good software design and development
• Supporting the Agile Software Development Life Cycle is followed
• Ensuring the features developed by the team are produced to the highest possible quality in the fastest possible time and no less, so that we are able to continue to do so in the future
• Developing and mentoring the QA community including one to one mentoring where necessary
• Improving the quality of the code by ensuring we have 100% test coverage and no code hot spots
• Ensuring that QA standards and principles are followed by performing peer reviews of the tests and acceptance criteria
• Improving the QA of our systems and identify any functional, technical or performance problems providing suggestions for improvements
• Sharing and retaining critical in-depth knowledge of the systems developed and maintained by MandM, such as the Website and all supporting services.  

 To be considered you will need:

• Demonstrable expertise in devising then executing Agile QA processes, tools and techniques
• Expertise in the use of automated test tools including load, stress and performance testing plus script automation
• Experience of testing in a cloud infrastructure preferably using Google Cloud Services
• Experience of retail, preferably eCommerce and/or multi-channel and an understanding of the technologies and associated issues in this environment
• Highly numerate and literate, with the ability to produce top quality written specifications and strategy and implementation communication 
• Able to meet tight deadlines and remain calm under pressure 
• Proactive and highly organised, with strong time management and planning skills 
• A track record of over-seeing successful software deployments
• Demonstrates comfort with ambiguity and an entrepreneurial style, not afraid to challenge to ensure quality delivery
• Flexible in approach and neither dogmatic nor bureaucratic when deploying QA  disciplines into an inexperienced business.