Test Analyst
Role Overview
The Test Analyst joins the Business Analysis and Test team in Pensions Solutions and Control.
The role supports testing for a large and complex change portfolio and smaller change initiatives, working with business and technical colleagues, senior stakeholders, and third-party suppliers.
The role requires maintaining knowledge of USS products, services, business operations, and testing best practice.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
The Test Analyst joins the Business Analysis and Test team in Pensions Solutions and Control.
The role supports testing for a large and complex change portfolio and smaller change initiatives, working with business and technical colleagues, senior stakeholders, and third-party suppliers.
The role requires maintaining knowledge of USS products, services, business operations, and testing best practice.
Workplace
- Place of work is Liverpool; the organisation offers flexibility between office and homeworking through a hybrid model.
Contract
- The posting describes the contract type as a fixed-term contract.
Test planning and preparation
- Apply testing methodology and standards to testing deliverables.
- Review and contribute to stakeholder test plans, including risk-based approaches for integration, UAT, regression, and other testing phases.
- Assess business requirements, data models, solution designs, and prototypes for testability.
- Produce test scenarios, scripts, cases, and expected results.
- Coordinate with technical colleagues to prepare test environments.
- Identify, acquire, or create test data and build automated tests where appropriate.
- Ensure test deliverables are reviewed and approved by stakeholders.
Test execution and collaboration
- Execute tests, record outcomes, evaluate results against criteria, and log deviations as defects.
- Use testing tools to monitor progress and support reporting; follow planned cycles and coverage and report deviations.
- Maintain controlled test environments and test data integrity during test cycles.
- Work with internal colleagues and suppliers on test preparation and execution.
- Share best practice, technical skills, and product knowledge and provide estimates to support workload and project planning.
Requirements
- Excellent test analysis, test preparation, and test execution skills.
- Full testing lifecycle experience, including integration, UAT, regression, and risk-based testing.
- Experience with test execution and defect management tools, including test automation.
- Experience working with third-party suppliers and testing software, including COTS packages, in organisational environments.
- Strong communication skills and ability to present complex scenarios clearly to project stakeholders.
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