Senior Quality Assurance Testing Analyst

Senior Quality Assurance Testing Analyst- SC cleared

Permanent | Hybrid (willing to travel to Newcastle when required) | Python | HTML

We are looking for QAT Analyst with strong Python and testing experience to work at an early stage alongside enterprise architects and senior engineers. You will help research, design and prototype the foundations of a new service, with particular emphasis on automation, integration and intelligent workflows.

You will join Peregrine who are supporting a large public sector organisation, starting an ambitious transformation programme focused on modernising how financial support services are delivered. The aim is to explore whether multiple existing approaches can be consolidated into a single, streamlined service.

This work is at Alpha stage, with a strong focus on research, prototyping and proving technical and architectural options.

This is a hands-on role suited to engineers who enjoy shaping solutions from first principles and working in exploratory delivery phases. The role is primarily remote, however travel to Newcastle may be required for sprint ceremonies and key workshops.

Responsibilities:

• Champion QAT across several teams, providing technical leadership and guidance.
• Drive collaboration across engineers of different roles both within your team and the wider teams to solve problems and enable consistent solutions and strategies.
• Build automation test solutions that help to assure the quality of our products, contribute towards their design, and look for way to improve the value automation adds.
• Ensure that usability, accessibility, security, stability, and capacity are embedded in the development of services.
• Drive teams to take a risk based, context driven approach to agile testing assessing and understanding the risks to drive decisions.
• Lead the adoptions of Continuous Integration/Delivery pipelines to run a full range of tests against our products and assure our builds.
• Lead the traceability of testing, risks, defects, and report progress to appropriate stakeholders across several teams.
• Be willing to challenge assumptions and current processes to help us improve. Reusing and evolving our strategies and tooling.
• Drive the identification of tooling and solutions to aid constant improvements, ensuring we build the right product in the right way.
• Proactively share knowledge, solutions and support our internal communities along with mentoring, coaching, and supporting your peers
• Take a risk based, context driven approach to agile testing assessing and understanding the risks to drive decisions.
• Be supporting Continuous Integration/Delivery pipelines to run a full range of tests against our products and assure our builds.
• Maintain traceability of testing, risks, defects, and report progress to appropriate stakeholders.
• Demonstrable skills in a modern programming language and software engineering practices and aptitude to learn more.
• Experience building and maintaining comprehensive, robust, and reliable automated tests against UI’s and API’s including contributing to improving frameworks and automation suites.
• Experience of the testing lifecycle from understanding business needs from delivery to production. Including test generation, reporting and defect management
• Adaptable team player who understands agile ways of working and shift left principles e.g. CI/CD.

Skills & Experience:

• Support the build of digital services, applications and systems for the buyer; writing and testing code to create and amend applications and infrastructure with automated and manual testing being used to make sure it works, is high quality and is bug free
• Work alongside other testers both within your team and the wider community to solve problems and enable consistent solutions and strategies.
• Knowledge of non-functional testing e.g. Performance, Security and Accessibility

– including test types, test tools, and standards

• Active SC clearance
• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• Node

Desirable skills:

About Peregrine

We build workforces that deliver tech and change programmes at leading UK organisations. By combining data science from Peregrine Intelligence, our industry-accredited Peregrine Academy, and market-leading attraction and diversity initiatives, we bridge capability gaps at all levels in public and private sector organisations. We work closely with our clients to understand their challenges and deliver flexible, long-term solutions that make a real difference. When you join Peregrine, you become part of a team that’s focused on growth, both yours, our clients’, and the sectors we support. You’ll also get access to a full range of benefits alongside your salary.

How Specialist Talent Works

As a permanent employee at Peregrine, you’ll be part of our Specialist Talent team. That means you’ll work on-site or remotely with our clients, supporting them on complex, high-impact projects in Data, Digital and Business Transformation. You’ll get the variety and challenge of consultancy work, with the stability and support of a permanent role. You’re not a contractor - you’re a valued member of our team, with access to all the same benefits, learning opportunities, and community.

Find out more: peregrine.global or check out our LinkedIn page: peregrine-resourcing