Senior Test Analyst

Planixs are looking to add enthusiastic and highly capable testers to an already high performing team. An excellent team player, quick learner with a strong background in manual testing and hands-on experience with test automation, would be ideal. You will be joining a compact and motivated team with an appetite to improve our testing capability.

What’s on offer?

Planixs do everything to support their people and offer an extensive benefits package including:

• Competitive Salaries
• 25 days holiday
• Extra day off on your birthday!
• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical
• MediCash Plan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Flexible working
• City Centre office

The role?

Test and QA is at the core of our quality and CI agenda. The test team is responsible not just for defining and executing test scripts but also for implementing and embedding automation into the testing lifecycle.

Key responsibilities

• Functional and non-functional test planning, including performing risk assessments of change with stakeholders
• Creation and maintenance of Test Scripts for functional features of high complexity
• Execution of test scripts, recording and communicating results in a clear and concise manner
• Execution of Manual and Automated Testing within an Agile SCRUM environment
• Creation and communication of defects in a clear and succinct manner, triaging effectively with stakeholders
• Ownership of application features, managing risk and identifying appropriate test case candidates for automation
• Champion of best practice and leadership of quality initiatives

Technical skills

• 5 year + in QA or relevant software delivery experience
• 5 year + experience in Test Management tools
• 2 year + hands on automation experience
• Working knowledge of non-functional testing such as performance, operations, security and penetration testing including test tools, frameworks and approaches
• Strong experience of API / back end testing (i.e. not reliant on UI)
• Demonstrable working knowledge of Python
• An understanding of cloud environments – containerisation, CI/CD pipelines and configuration management (preferred)
• Experience with Python testing frameworks (preferred)

We are looking for applicants who want to join a growing organisation at an exciting time in its evolution. If you want an environment where your input and opinions will make a real difference then this will be right for you. Those with a real passion for testing and an ability to think outside the box will thrive here at Planixs.