Rail Delivery Group

Technical QA Analyst – 12m FTC

Rail Delivery Group

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £43,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

Open SourcePythonSelenium

About the role

  • Produce and maintain test plans across the lifecycle of the project for all aspects of Acceptance and E2E Testing.
  • Where appropriate assist with developing internal test practices across the organisation and ensuring delivery of testing services that complies to the organisational quality assurance policy, practices, and test strategy.
  • Test Estimation to ensure that the effort for testing on projects is correctly captured and tracked.
  • Development and maintenance of Customer Acceptance Test objectives matrices through the project and successful baselining as part of project closure.
  • Definition of Acceptance Test criteria and working with Business Stakeholders to sign off user test requirements and test acceptance criteria.
  • Day to day management of the activities of self/team and QA activities of suppliers (wherever needed).
  • Creating and delivering all key QA deliverables – Test plans, strategies, scope, requirement traceability, test objective matrices, test cases, test reports (including defect management).
  • Automate regression and functional tests to help improve time to market for QA services.
  • Manage the automation scripts and codes bases using tools like GitHub and GitLab.
  • Help create requirement traceability matrix by active management of stories in JIRA, ALM and related tools.
  • Strive towards upskilling and maintaining skills/proficiency to best delivery change in RDG.
  • Support testing processes especially around automation in a CI/CD and/or DevOps Model.
  • Help document knowledge of all automation and technical testing for the team.
  • Help train and share knowledge with team members on all subjects that you work on.
  • Good understanding and adopting of static assurance across all testing stages.
  • Be proactive and escalate any delays in testing to project manager, test manager and/or Head of QA in a timely manner.
  • Develop and maintain a good testing knowledge of the relevant systems (online and/or backend), scope and objectives and input into the Service Desk Knowledge base.
  • Engage with vendors/suppliers and work collaboratively to ensure that quality of releases and products.
  • Ensure supplier test delivery is in line with RDG policy and standards and develop a Test Assurance Framework for third party software delivery.
  • Be proficient in Risk based approach to testing and deliverables.
  • Work with the test manager and project team to manage expectations and ensure adherence to timelines.
  • Review and maintain quality of test knowledge and scripts in the team.
  • Good team player and good collaboration skills especially with other teams within the organisation to ensure the organisation deliver to the railway community.
  • Report on daily status of testing to test manager and if required to the stakeholders, vendors, and project management.
  • Build and maintain strong working relationships with project stakeholders, including key business users.
  • Work positively and communicate professionally across the team to make an effective contribution to team tasks and team spirit.
  • Contribute to the building of automation framework within the organisation.
  • Be flexible with day-to-day remit and work as required by the Quality Assurance team.
  • Work with Service Assurance leadership and other departments to deliver a support framework for AI functionality to enhance productivity on QA deliverables.
  • Demonstrate good team processes and practices to support EDI and good personal development.

Requirements

  • Keen understanding of system analysis.
  • Ability to work independently to achieve project deliverables.
  • Maintain and build functional and non-functional testing for relevant systems using approved automation tools as per QA framework and practises.
  • Have a good understanding of automation and its application.
  • Good working knowledge of automation tools - Selenium Open Source, Robot Framework, Python, ReadyAPI, Saucelabs, GitHub, Gitlab, ConnectALL, Gatling and any tool that RDG or the departments deem necessary to incorporate into work delivery.
Benefits
  • 75% off rail travel for personal and family use, plus international rail discounts.
  • 30 Days annual leave (plus buy/sell options and additional leave for key life events)
  • Season ticket loan for commuting costs.
  • Enhanced family leave – 30 weeks full pay for maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and shared parental leave.
  • Pension scheme – up to 11.58% employer contribution.
  • Private medical insurance (Vitality PPP) including mental health and specialist care.
  • Discounted gym membership and access to wellbeing programmes.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
test plansE2E testingtest estimationacceptance test criteriarequirement traceabilityautomation testingrisk-based testingfunctional testingnon-functional testingsystem analysis
Soft skills
team playercollaborationcommunicationproactiveflexibilityindependenceknowledge sharingstakeholder engagementproblem-solvingtime management