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Senior Quality Analyst

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Location: 1, 76-78 Wardour St, Soho, London W1F 0UR, UK 1, 76-78 Wardour St, Soho, London W1F 0UR, UK Manchester Piccadilly, London Road, Piccadilly, City Centre, Manchester, Greater Manchester, North West England, England, M1 2BN, United Kingdom Manchester St, Marylebone, London W1U, UK Posted: Aug 14, 2019

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<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Are you at your most motivated when your actions contribute to the correct product being built? Do you thrive on exploring how to minimise risk, such that it leads to delighting your customers and meeting their needs?</span></em></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thoughtworks is a global software consultancy with an aim to create a positive impact on the world through technology. Our community of technologists thinks disruptively to deliver pragmatic solutions for our clients' most complex challenges. We are curious minds who come together as collaborative and inclusive teams to push boundaries, free to be ourselves and make our mark in tech.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our developers have been contributing code to major organisations and open source projects for over 25 years. We have also been writing books, speaking at conferences and helping push software development forward, changing companies and even industries along the way. We passionately believe that software quality is driven by open communication, review and collaboration. That’s why we’re such vehement supporters of open source and have made significant contributions to open source tools for testing, continuous delivery (GoCD), continuous integration (CruiseControl), machine learning and healthcare.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As consultants, we </span><a href="https://www.thoughtworks.com/careers/hub/consultant-life"><span style="font-weight: 400;">work with our clients</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to ensure we’re evolving their technology and empowering adaptive mindsets to meet their business goals. You could influence the digital strategy of a retail giant, build a bold new mobile application for a bank or redesign platforms using event sourcing and intelligent data pipelines. You will learn to use the latest Lean and Agile thinking, create pragmatic solutions to solve mission-critical problems and challenge yourself every day.&nbsp;</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Woven between all of the stages of the development process is the work of a Quality Analyst: the technologist who focuses on the complexity and risk inherent in building solutions, and who helps to ensure the team stays on target to produce the correct one. By collaborating with each team member—Developer, Business Analyst, Designer, etc.—they ensure quality is thoughtfully examined in both processes and technology. QAs are more than testers; they’re team motivators and strive to encourage all teammates to weave quality into their mindsets and code.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You’ll spend time on the following:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Strive for quality to be built and aspire to 'shift quality to the left' by highlighting and putting measures for risk mitigations within the team as early as possible</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Be part of a wider development team, pairing with Devs and Business Analysts, Infrastructure Engineers, and Designers to embed the Quality and Testing mindset within different roles</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Work with stakeholders to understand user needs; identify, negotiate scope of testing along with bringing them onboard with the testing approach</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Offer improvements on code, tests, testability and suggest tools and frameworks to </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">avoid problems such as test case duplication, flaky tests, and maintainability&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Continuously produce and implement approaches to testing right from the beginning of product analysis to production; evolving it based on changing time &amp; circumstances</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Contribute to security and performance testing activities in the team</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Champion QA practices and tools to the broader tech community, through conferences, blogs and acting as a mentor</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here’s what we’re looking for:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience in Agile methodologies, code management, deployment strategies.&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Solid understanding of practices such as TDD, BDD, CI/CD</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and validation models such as Test Pyramid / Swiss Cheese</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience working with modern-day architectures, knowing how to test parts of the whole</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Comfortable with different types and techniques in functional testing and cross functional testing</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can put forward a test strategy for earliest feedback on issues</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Derive a holistic and detailed view of the system simultaneously</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Able to work in a team that is delivering cloud-based solutions such as AWS, Azure</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Knowledge of practices and tools for testing infrastructure as code&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Knowledge of strategies for change and release management of the product into production including versioning, audit-ability, traceability, and backward compatibility, roll-backs etc</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Having a customer centric approach through user experience and user research including prototyping, personas and AB testing</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach and tackle challenges from multiple perspectives</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You enjoy influencing others and always advocate for quality as a shared team responsibility, yet are open to change when needed </span></li> </ul> <p>We offer amazing benefits from the day you start including private medical insurance, travel insurance, income protection, critical illness, life assurance, pension scheme, child care vouchers, personal development budget, 25 days holiday and a ride2work scheme.</p> <p>We proudly, passionately and actively strive to make both ThoughtWorks and our industry more representative of the communities we serve. We promote diversity in all its forms and reject discrimination and inequality.&nbsp;</p> <p>Our diversity and award winning culture inspires our thought leaders and serves to nurture and develop amazing ideas. We believe this makes us a world leading destination of choice for all technologists.</p> <p>We’re also passionate about delivering quality by ensuring the most valuable use of our talents and experience. We aim to support different working patterns to ensure a diverse collective of people can call ThoughtWorks their home so if you’re looking to work with high profile clients, delivering digital transformation and innovation, get in touch and chat to us about working flexibly!</p>

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