Principal Quality Assurance Analyst

Portfolio are proud to be exclusively representing an award-wining, Software provider based in the heart of Manchester, providing people solutions to over 50,000 clients worldwide.

Our client is looking for a Principal Quality Assurance Analyst who is highly experienced with Cypress, Java Script, C#, Puppeteer, Play Write, Postman and Newman . This is a fantastic opportunity to showcase your technical skills and be seen as an expert in your field and be the mentor for a lot of your junior colleagues.

Key Responsibilities/Skills:

• Experience of various testing techniques and strategies.
• Able to plan how to test a feature and make appropriate decisions on the approach and technology.
• Have a pragmatic approach to understanding quality vs delivery expectations and act accordingly to produce a high-quality product.
• Able to communicate a complicated problem succinctly accurately and coherently to a team with different skill sets.
• Exhibit cross functional behaviour and support other competencies within the company, department, team, and guild.
• Able to negotiate and compromise solutions and find the balance between best practice, expediency, and longer-term maintenance costs.
• Demonstrate, discuss, and permeate current good practice in the skills specific to your professional family across other members of your professional family.
• An ability, or willingness to use, learn and suggest various tools and methods to improve test coverage and improve software delivery timescales.
• Use available data to analyse and identify underlying issues, gaps in test coverage, impact, and user behaviour to improve quality of the delivered product.
• Make judgment calls about whether a software issue is tolerable in production and if the impact of that is tolerable.
• Able to triage, repeat and identify software issues in test environments. Describe the issue succinctly and coherently to expedite their resolution.
• Make judgment calls about whether a software issue is tolerable in production and if the impact of that is tolerable.
• Able to negotiate and compromise solutions and find the balance between best practice, expediency, and longer-term maintenance costs.

Benefits:

• 25 days' holiday, plus bank holidays.
• Day off on your birthday.
• Perkbox discounts.
• Holidays increase after 2- and 5-years' service.
• Pension Plan and Life Insurance.
• Access to Employee Assistance Programme.
• Company incentives, access to discount schemes.

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