Senior QA Analyst

• To ensure 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.
• To ensure that QA standards and principles are followed by performing peer reviews of the tests and acceptance criteria.
• To ensure 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.
• To ensure that the Agile Software Development Life Cycle is followed.
• To develop and mentor the QA community including one to one mentoring where necessary.
• To improve the quality of the code by ensuring we have 100% test coverage and no code hot spots.
• To improve the QA of our systems and identify any functional, technical or performance problems  providing suggestions for improvements. 
• To improve, share and retain critical in-depth knowledge of the systems developed and maintained by MandM, such as the Website and all supporting services.

• 3+ years in devising and executing Agile QA processes, tools and techniques

• Experience using SQL server or equivalent database for data interrogation testing via the execution of queries

• Experience of testing API’s, using tools such as postman to verify functionality and data integrity is upheld by services processing data.

• Experience using a range 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

• A track record of over-seeing successful software deployments

• Experience or knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and principles.

• Demonstrates comfort with ambiguity and an entrepreneurial style, not afraid to challenge to ensure quality delivery

• Robust & resilient, a completer/finisher with an attention to detail. Analytical in approach, tenacious and driven by results.

Technology & tools knowledge