QA Test Analyst

Sabeo Contracting Services Ltd; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A high-profile client in Dublin city center seeks an experienced QA Test Analyst for a 6-month hybrid contract. This role involves ensuring the quality of mission-critical systems through test preparation, execution, and management. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in manual and API testing, as well as familiarity with test management tools.

Qualifications

• 5+ years working as a QA Test Analyst or similar capacity.
• 3+ years experience testing APIs using Postman.
• ISTQB or other software testing certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Drive development of test approach and timelines with QA lead.
• Execute manual tests as per project plans and manage defects.
• Collaborate with enablement teams on testing solutions and reporting.

Skills

Test Management

Defect Management

Manual Testing

API Testing

Querying Databases

Test Automation

Education

Bachelor's Degree in IT or equivalent

Tools

Postman

MSSQL

JIRA

Job description

QA Test Analyst

6 month contract

Dublin city centre/Hybrid

Our high profile client based in Dublin city centre is actively seeking an experienced QA Test Analyst to join their team.

You will work as part of the IT QA testing team and align with the best test management practices with a focus on assuring the quality of the mission critical systems/applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Actively work with QA Lead and enablement teams to drive in the development of the test approach, timelines, and estimate (incl. effort and resources) documentations.
• Collaboratively work with enablement teams on risks and issues with strong focus on solutions.
• Test preparation tasks including alignment with business on requirements, development of manual test cases, creation of test data and test scheduling and planning
• Manual test execution as per project plans
• Defect management including defect identification, triage, logging (in JIRA) and work with developer for fixes deployment
• Utilization of a variety of systems, applications and technologies across testing work stream and other lines of business
• Reporting and tracking on test progress on a daily/weekly basis with metrics-based approach
• Implementation of test automation agenda
• Active engagement with the PMO/Change team and lines of business to provide SME knowledge and testing support where required
• Collaboratively work within QA team and with other lines of business to deliver BAU and other projects related testing activities
• Conduct peer review of quality of other team members’ test outputs
• Maintain and evolve existing testing documentations
• Actively explore test automation opportunities
• Utilise the available tools for test preparation, execution, defect management, reporting and test optimisation
• Support future implementation of test automation agenda incl. approach, best practice, framework setup and future enhancement where possible as the QA team identifies automation opportunities

Experience:

• Bachelors Degree in an IT Discipline or equivalent
• 5+ years working as a QA test analyst or similar capacity
• 3+ years’ experience testing API’s using postman, and also experienced in querying/updating DB using MSSQL
• ISTQB or other software testing certifications
• Health Insurance experience an advantage