Quality Assurance Analyst

We are looking for an experienced QA Analyst to join our expanding team and help deliver our roadmap of highly scalable services. Our bread and butter is APIs (developing our own and implementing partners), but we have several front-end systems as well (both consumer and business-focused).

You will be expected to work with agile development principles, implementing test plans & test cases that will need to adapt as the applications evolve and the requirements are refined.

We're looking for someone who enjoys being part of a team and can identify risks and communicate issues/bugs within a release cycle clearly and concisely.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Read requirements documentation and analyse what needs to be tested
• Work closely with the development and business teams to develop test cases for review and execution.
• Actively participate in daily stand ups, sprint planning, retrospectives and other sessions.
• Execute all the test cases and report defects, define severity and priority for each defect without any delay.
• Take ownership of tasks that are assigned to you.
• Communicate issues, discrepancies and blockers in an effective, clear, and timely manner.
• Carry out regression testing on the platform during release cycles.
• Tailor your approach to QA depending on factors such as priority and time.
• Adhering to the process of Testing defined in HTG.

Relevant Experience:

• Experienced in Software Quality Assurance experience.
• API testing experience desired but not necessary.
• Ideally have a background in the travel industry, but this is not necessary.
• Experience with bug tracking software, e.g. Jira.
• Knowledge of REST API testing tools, e.g. Postman.
• Experience using test case management tools to write and execute test cases, e.g. TestRail, Zephyr
• Are comfortable on the Linux Command Line and running SQL Server queries.

Desirable skills:

• Have strong interpersonal skills with a focus on teamwork and collaboration.
• Well organised, with a highly developed attention to detail.
• Excellent Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good communication skills, able to explain complex systems and behaviours to internal and external teams.
• Desire to succeed and work on self-development.