Companies House

Band C1 (IT) Senior Test Analyst

Other benefits include: Pension Scheme, 30 days A/L, 10.5 days Statutory Holidays, a wide range of Family Friendly Policies.

Main Team Role:

The successful candidate will be part of a team responsible for testing Companies House web based internal and external services.

This includes perform structured system testing and automation scripting using HP’s Quick Test Pro and line management duties addressing the development and training needs for junior staff member.

Role of advertised post within team:

• Provide advice to project managers on suitable testing procedures for their project work together with resource estimates.
• Create and maintain test plans and scenarios derived from system functional specifications.
• Analysis of technical and functional specifications in order to generate effective and economic test cases.
• Automation of test scripts using HP’s Quick Test Pro
• Perform structured system and integration testing and setting up regression paths for future projects
• Track and resolve problems arising from the test and support process, ensuring they are either resolved or suitable workarounds are put in place.
• Create full documentation of the test runs and procedures for audit purposes
• Perform a quality assurance role against test case production.
• Training/Mentoring of junior team members.

Core & Job Specific Competencies:

Essential

1. Experienced test Analyst with a minimum of 3 years experience working in an Agile driven development lifecycle
2. Excellent communication and mentoring skills, able to communicate effectively and credibly with a diverse audience at all levels.
3. High degree of self-motivation to achieve the required results
4. An extensive technical literacy of the following is required:
   1. a. QTP
   2. b. Quality Center
   3. c. TSL Scripting
   4. d. Unix Scripting
   5. e. Assyst
   6. f. XML
   7. g. SQL
   8. h. XBRL
   9. i. Visual Basic
   10. j. Oracle
   11. k. Javascript
5. ISEB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing

Desirable:

6. ITIL Foundation Certificate in Service Management

Advantageous:

7. ISEB Practitioner Certificate in Software Testing
8. Experience of MongoDB and JSON

Opportunities Offered:

This is a senior role within the test team, and provides an opportunity to shaping the future approach to testing within Companies House. 

Candidates will be required to undertake an activity as part of the recruitment selection process.

The Civil Service is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and which promote equality of opportunity. We also offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet our minimum selection criteria.

We will not tolerate discrimination on any of the following: gender, marital status, sexual orientation, race, colour, nationality, religion, age, disability, HIV positivity, working pattern, caring responsibilities, trade union activity or political beliefs - or any other grounds.

To apply

To apply please download the online application form, and complete this providing the necessary and relevant information to help support your application. You will also find some monitoring forms, which you will need to download, complete and return to us with your application form.

Application form
Monitoring forms to be completed
Annual Report and Accounts 2011-2012
Companies House Strategic Direction
Business Plan Summary 2011-2012
GOV.UK

Please send your completed application form and monitoring forms to hrrecruitment@companieshouse.gov.uk

If you require any additional information, then please contact Kelly Williams in the HR team via email hrrecruitment@companieshouse.gov.uk  or telephone 029 20380818.