Senior Test Analyst – Manual QA

Role Overview

• Understand business requirements and system functionality
• Create manual test scenarios, test cases and test scripts
• Execute functional and non-functional tests: (acceptance, regression, integration, exploratory, compatibility, load and security)
• Identify, record and track defects, ensuring proper documentation
• Support the Product Owner in defining acceptance criteria
• Participate in the validation and sign-off of deliveries (sprints and releases)
• Plan and manage test cycles, ensuring adequate coverage
• Evaluate test results and recommend continuous improvements
• Create and maintain test documentation (plans, evidence, test data sets)
• Build mocks, stubs and simulators for test execution
• Support version sign-off and validation of system integrations
• Monitor and maintain test routines in controlled environments
• Support the development team in validating deliveries

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in IT (completed)
• Strong experience with manual testing in complex systems
• Knowledge of test and defect management tools
• Experience with agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban)
• Knowledge of BDD, ATDD or Specification by Example
• Basic test automation knowledge (advantageous, not mandatory)
• Knowledge of API testing and system integration testing
• Experience with performance and security testing (OWASP — a plus)
• Test data generation and log analysis