Test Analyst

Job Details:
To plan, execute, enhance and maintain a best practice QA approach to software delivery for Virgin Holidays based on agile ways of working for our websites & core reservation systems functionality.

Role Purpose:
Collaborate with the business to clarify the expected behaviour of new or modified functionality.
Prepare and maintain test data.
Create manual test cases and execute the agreed level of testing in priority order.
Create automated test cases and execute the agreed level of testing in priority order.
Maintain & contribute to the existing automated regression test suite.
Retest bug fixes and maintenance releases and include coverage in the automated test framework.
Sprint planning, story preparation, estimating QA work & assisting with sprint reviews & retrospectives.
End of sprint regression testing.
Plan & execute Live release testing on ‘go-live’ sessions
Adapt to & enhance/improve the web team agile way of working.
Determine & cater for ‘in scope’ website & peripherally associated functional QA coverage.
Define & maintain QA coverage resulting from new functionality.
Perform tests across the defined and logical list of browsers & mobile devices.
Work with key business stakeholders to ensure successful implementation of business processes within the organisation to ensure optimal quality for customers with Virgin Holidays.
Assist & recreate production issues when required as part of the live support rota.
Provide QA support for production maintenance fixes and releases.

Requirements:
Recommend tools & process changes in the teams best interests.
Recommend quality of QA approved code & content changes to production systems.
Raise impediments with most logical owner & follow through to resolution.
Assist other team members on new technologies & ways of working where applicable
Ability to adjust to & adopt our ‘agile’ way of working.
Confidence to stand up for QA approach at Virgin Holidays.
Flexibility to deal with iterative releases & live deployment verification.
Ability to pick up & contribute to the automation framework.
Experienced web tester with cross browser & device QA experience.
Demonstrate high levels of attention to detail.