Test Analyst

Management Level

G

Business Division: EQ Retirement Solutions

Business Function / Department: Client Product Delivery Testing

Job Title: Test Analyst

Reporting to (Job Title): Test Manager

Date: 9th July 2024

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.

EQ’s vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.

Role Summary

The role of a Test Analyst is to support the Test Manager and Test Leads(s) in the CPD Testing team through system testing configured software platforms that meet customers’ requirements for the Compendia and the Administrator applications.

Day-to-day activities will focus on writing detailed test conditions and test scripts against business requirements, with appropriate test data and expected results creation. Supporting test estimation exercises for test planning purpose, with associated risk assessment around levels of test coverage. Test execution while accurately recording and storing test results, raising defects, retest and participation in fault reviews

As a Test Analyst within the testing team, some direct client contact may be required.

Core Duties/Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

• Working with Business Analysts and Configurators to produce and agree functional system testing estimates, to support test planning phases
• Analysing business requirements to determine testing requirements
• Work with the Test Manager and Test Leads to derive the main testing milestones with recommendations for the number of test cycles.
• Analysis of requirements into test conditions, ensuring a proposed system function is testable
• Test scenario and test data modelling, for the positive and negative scenarios
• Risk assessments to provide guidance for proposed test coverage
• Definition of test data for test cases and expected results
• Work with technical services for the setting up the test environment(s)
• Fully understand how all aspects of their work integrates with the rest of the SDLC and STLC
• Monitor any change control to original requirements for impact analysis and capture these changes within a traceability matrix or within TFS/Jira
• Implementing scheduled tests, execution and logging the tests and evaluating the results and documenting any deviations from expected results
• Defect tracking and monitoring - for issues, fault investigations and triage of faults incorporating severity ratings
• Ensure successful delivery and conclusion of all test activities to meet the project target date

Skills, Capabilities and Attributes

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following experience, skills and behaviours:

• Must be ISEB qualified to foundation level
• Experience of working within the financial sector a benefit
• Exposure to pension / payroll applications, either as tester or operationally is a significant benefit
• Have comprehensive test analysis skills to be able to interpret test requirements where limited information has been provided
• A good understanding of test methods, covering - system testing, regression testing, exploratory testing, negative testing and platform testing
• Have experience of working with the UAT/BAT teams to share knowledge and support final delivery to our clients is desirable
• Agile testing process is an advantage
• Experience of Microsoft Azure DevOps or JIRA
• Exposure to automated test tools an advantage
• Either SC (Security Check) or DV (Developed Vetting) clearances will be required, so any previous clearances (open or expired) is advantageous

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following technical experience, skills and behaviours:.

• Technical Standards and Processes: Delivers detailed test analysis against business requirements, exploring and clarifying gaps whilst adhering to the Test Policy/Strategy and STLC
• Technical: Support creation/shaping of test scenarios - ensuring that all such are easily understood and 'testable' 
• Behaviours: Good communication skills with experience of dealing with project stakeholders and business ambassadors
• Behaviours: Continuously develop a professional, technical, and commercially aware approach
• Behaviours: Reliably follows commitments and actions through to their completion and demonstrates accountability across the business needs
• Technical: Provides guidance on functional test automation opportunities, level of coverage, environment requirements, release controls, testing tools and data management.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of 5 year activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit, Sanctions & CIFAS checks.