Senior Quality Analyst

Role Overview

• Embed in refinement to identify risks and edge cases before development begins
• Define testable acceptance criteria with Product Owners and developers
• Produce test plans that make coverage decisions explicit and reviewable
• Run structured regression testing against completed work items and releases
• Lead exploratory test sessions, independently and alongside AI agents, to build a current picture of system quality
• Evaluate tests for the right risk, the right failure mode, and the right coverage pattern
• Hold shared ownership of the team's automated test coverage alongside engineers: audit what exists, identify gaps, and extend coverage at API and UI level
• Identify test data constraints that limit what can be tested; work with engineers to build the data infrastructure testing requires
• Develop the team's test frameworks and CI integration; surface structural gaps that prevent adequate coverage
• Classify defects, identify patterns, and surface root causes and trends to the team
• Triage quality issues from support alongside your own observations
• Maintain a running view of quality risk and feed it into the product backlog via the Product Owner

Requirements

• Practical experience in test planning, exploratory testing, and test management in an modern Agile environment
• Can read, evaluate, and reason about automated test suites: coverage decisions, failure modes, and structural quality
• Analyst mindset: treats quality as information, looks for patterns, connects findings to product and process decisions
• Has a structured, repeatable approach to learning unfamiliar software systems independently — can describe the method, not just the outcome
• Collaboration: works with developers and Product Owners from the start of a feature
• Technical literacy across API and UI testing: can understand how test frameworks, infrastructure, and test data interact, identify where each is limiting coverage, and drive improvements

Benefits

• 27 days of holiday per year plus bank holidays (with a buy option up to an additional 5 days)
• Enhance Maternity and Paternity leave
• AXA Health insurance including dental, optical and mental health
• Broadband allowance
• Home office stipend
• Life assurance (4 x basic salary)
• Encouraged and funded CPD