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Software Tester
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Business Analyst/Software Tester
Salary: £45,000 – £65,000 per annum
Due to the nature of the projects, candidates must be a British citizen with no dual citizenship – no sponsorship available.
Candidates must be comfortable working in a hybrid environment, with a combination of on-site and home working.
Key Responsibilities
- Work with customers, product owners and delivery teams to elicit, analyse and document business requirements, processes and acceptance criteria.
- Facilitate workshops and stakeholder interviews to understand current-state processes, identify improvement opportunities and define future-state solutions.
- Produce clear functional requirements, user stories, process maps, use cases and supporting documentation.
- Model business processes using BPMN 2.0, including end-to-end workflows, decision points, exceptions, roles and system interactions.
- Translate business requirements into structured test scenarios, test cases and measurable acceptance criteria.
- Plan and execute functional, integration, regression, exploratory and user acceptance testing.
- Record, prioritise and manage defects through to resolution, working closely with developers and stakeholders.
- Maintain traceability between business requirements, user stories, test cases and delivered functionality.
- Support release planning, demonstrations, user acceptance testing and post-release validation.
- Identify opportunities to improve business analysis, quality assurance and test automation practices.
- Develop and maintain automated tests using tools like Playwright, with experience of AI-assisted test generation, test maintenance or intelligent testing tools being highly desirable.
- Use testing evidence, logs and results to communicate solution quality, risks and release readiness clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
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- Demonstrable experience in a combined Business Analyst, Test Analyst / Quality Assurance role.
- Practical experience of requirements elicitation, stakeholder management, process analysis and software testing.
- Strong working knowledge of BPMN 2.0, supported by experience producing process models for business and technical audiences.
- A recognised business analysis qualification, such as BCS Business Analysis, or equivalent practical experience.
- A recognised testing qualification, such as ISTQB Foundation, is desirable.
- Experience of testing web-based business applications (and in particular Microsoft Power Apps).
- Experience of test automation using tools like Playwright is highly desirable.
- Exposure to AI-assisted testing, including AI-generated test cases, self-healing tests, intelligent test selection or natural-language-driven automation, would be advantageous.
- Experience of Azure DevOps, Jira.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, written communication and stakeholder-engagement skills.
- Ability to work independently across both business analysis and testing activities while collaborating effectively within a multidisciplinary delivery team.
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