Job Introduction

Job Title:ICT Senior Test Analyst

Salary Banding:£32,000-£39,750

Job Location: Warrington

Contract Duration:Permanent

Hours (weekly): 35 working Monday to Friday

Are you looking for a role where you can work alongside both IT and business stakeholders to deliver independent testing and quality control? Do you want to work within a passionate, dedicated and flexible team?

Due to continued growth and significant investment into Digital and cloud-based transformation, Your Housing Group is expanding its Independent Test Function capability. We therefore have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Test Analyst to help lead the testing activities across all changes.

As an ICT Senior Test Analyst you will be a key member of the Test team, taking responsibility for scoping, planning, executing, documenting and delivering testing on a wide range of technology changes. You will help to improve quality across the change process, identifying improvement opportunities and challenging the status quo.

This is a great time to join an organisation that aspires to be a model of good practice for testing and change quality control, committed to continuous improvement in this area, protecting customers and our organisation and reputation in equal measure.

You will have strong relationships skills as you will be working closely with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, including colleagues within ICT Operations, Applications Support, Service Delivery, DevOps, internal Governance and Risk & Assurance and external suppliers.

You will use your previous housing and testing experience, alongside a logical and methodical approach, to assist ICT in focussing on our highest change risks, providing insightful and impactful test scoping and execution and reporting to the ICT Test Manager, Head of Testing and key stakeholders.

If you can demonstrate the following then we would love to hear from you!

• Experience of hand-on testing of software, hardware, digital platforms, IT infrastructure, telephony or business processes and static testing of documentation and other artefacts
• A good understanding of testing principles, approaches, techniques and tools
• Familiarity with test strategies and other testing artefacts
• The ability to transform requirements into clear, concise and readable positive and negative test scope and scenarios
• An open and flexible approach to your work, including the ability to work on multiple changes simultaneously, work alongside others as part of a dynamic delivery team and the initiative to work individually
• Good communication and presentation skills, including a strong attention to detail

Experience of using or supporting Housing sector systems and/or applications, e.g. Orchard, Accuserv, etc.

Prior to completing your application, please review the attached Role Profile to better understand the role and key responsibilities.

In addition to a competitive salary, our benefits include up 25 days holiday, plus Bank Holidays, pension scheme, Health Cash Plan Scheme and other excellent rewards such discounted gym membership and cinema tickets.

Your Housing Group is a new generation of housing provider, working efficiently and effectively to build as many quality houses as possible, thereby playing its part in solving the national housing crisis. With over 28,000 homes across the North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands, the business has a large portfolio of retirement living developments and an innovative private rental offer in Nuvu.

Closing date:4th July 2019

Should we receive a high number of applications, we may close this vacancy earlier than the date indicated above, therefore, you are encouraged to submit your application as soon as possible.

Your Housing Group values diversity and encourages applications from all communities. Your Housing Group operates a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for tenants or anyone who resides in a Your Housing Group property. It also operates the scheme for any applicants who declare they have a disability. Those applicants who meet the minimum requirements for the role as set out in the role profile will be guaranteed an interview. Some roles may be subject to probity checks which will override the scheme where a potential conflict of interest or a probity matter has been identified.

Your Housing Group