QA Analyst

A fantastic opportunity to join a leading company in the Education Technology sector, supporting the company to deliver changes of the highest quality. The role will involve the full suite of testing: system integration, user acceptance and regression testing, and is ideally suited to an experienced QA analyst or somebody with extensive domain/functional experience who is interested in moving into a more hands-on and technical role.

Duties/areas of responsibility

The position will involve the following areas of responsibility:

• Own and take responsibility for testing a portfolio of assigned work items, covering the suite of Bromcom products (web and mobile apps)

• Independently create quality test plans, selecting the most appropriate testing techniques for the change

• Assist in the analysis of test results and liaise with other team members about next steps

• Update the work management system (Azure Devops)

Responsible to

This role reports to the Escalations Team Manager.

Essential Knowledge and Skills

• Ability to interpret business requirements and understand the use of the MIS or school Finance system in a school setting 

• Ability to design and create test plans of high quality, and with suitable coverage

• Natural problem solver

• Excellent communication skills

• Good team player

• Can-do attitude: pro-active and wanting to input into and contribute to creating quality applications

Desirable knowledge and skills

• Some SQL knowledge

• Degree in a related field, eg computing 

Experience 

• Experience working with an MIS or schools' finance product

• Software testing experience - ideally in the edtech sector or in an agile environment

• Ideally some experience or knowledge of different types of testing, including system integration, user acceptance and regression testing