Registers of Scotland
Senior Test Analyst
0 Incomplete applications
27 Completed applications
22 SME, 5 large
Important dates
- Published
- Wednesday 9 November 2016
- Deadline for asking questions
- Friday 11 November 2016 at 11:59pm GMT
- Closing date for applications
- Wednesday 16 November 2016 at 11:59pm GMT
Overview
- Specialist role
- Performance analyst
- Summary of the work
- Working with BAs and Developers on developed solutions. Providing feedback on the soundness of proposed solutions and ensure that these are suitable. Experienced with Agile projects and will perform manual testing, record results and log defects. Provide feedback, log defects and input on techniques, solutions and tools used throughout projects.
- Latest start date
- End of November + 2 weeks
- Expected contract length
- Location
- Scotland
- Organisation the work is for
- Registers of Scotland
- Maximum day rate
About the work
- Early market engagement
- Who the specialist will work with
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You will be working alongside:
-Business Analysts
-Developers
-UAT Test Team - What the specialist will work on
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- Analyse User Stories
- Develop Test Plans
- Develop Test Scenarios and Test Cases
- Prepare Test Data (when required)
- Collaborate on the test automation frameworks, using BDD approach
- Review test and log defects
- Perform manual testing (exploratory and non-functional)
- Create and maintain online (JIRA) documentation on the testing environments
- Identification of areas where test automation could be beneficial
- split testing effort effectively into the functional, automated BDD test design, structured exploratory testing sessions and non-functional, UI, accessibility testing and security
Work setup
- Address where the work will take place
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Meadowbank House
153 London Road
Edinburgh
EH8 7AU - Working arrangements
- required onsite 5 days per week
- Security clearance
- We would request that the individual has the Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)
Additional information
- Additional terms and conditions
Skills and experience
Buyers will use the essential and nice-to-have skills and experience to help them evaluate suppliers’ technical competence.
- Essential skills and experience
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- Be passionate about testing and software development
- Have considerable testing experience
- Have excellent analytical skills
- Have an understanding of structured test methods and processes
- Be an excellent team worker – especially with development and business
- Have effective and concise communication
- Have a challenging and enquiring mind
- Have attention to detail and persistence
- Have understanding of common software failures and faults
- Have ability to effectively prioritize work and manage stress
- Have understanding of risk based approach to testing
- Have understanding of value of test automation in the Agile environments
- Have working knowledge of at least one programming language
- Have ability to build and maintain or design and drive test automation framework
- Have understanding of database concept and ability to write basic SQL queries
- Have understanding of non-functional aspects of web application testing – such as UI, Accessibility, Security and Performance
- Have experience working in the Agile projects
- Have experience using BDD approach to software development
- Nice-to-have skills and experience
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- Have experience with JIRA
- Have experience with Linux
- Have Selenium WebDriver with one or more programming languages
How suppliers will be evaluated
- How many specialists to evaluate
- 5
- Cultural fit criteria
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- practice team working with all stakeholders
- have no blame culture
- encourage people to learn from mistakes
- Assessment methods
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- Work history
- Interview
- Evaluation weighting
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Technical competence
75%Cultural fit
5%Price
20%
Questions asked by suppliers
- 1. What is the contract length?
- 5 months
- 2. Please could you provide day rate or maximum day rate?
- Registers of Scotland do not provide a maximum rate and expect suppliers to submit according to market rate.
- 3. Are the Registers of Scotland able to put candidates through the required BPSS Clearance for this role?
- It is the responsibility of the agency to provide BPSS clearance for temporary staff and contractors, not Registers of Scotland
- 4. Do you require someone who is equally skilled in performance testing as they are in automation or is there one of these skills required more than the other?
- No, automation is the priority
- 5. Can you clarify the level of understanding that the individual should have around UI, Accessibility, Security and Performance?
- Versed enough to use tools such as Wave, Zap, Jaws and make an assesment.
- 6. In the overview you make reference to the role being a Performance Analyst. Can you clarify this in more detail please?
- This should read QA Analyst