Senior IT QA Test Analyst

Company Name: OSN Employment Type: Full Time Monthly Salary: Unspecified Minimum Work Experience: 5-10 Years Minimum Education Level: N/A Listed By: Employer Career Level: Senior Description: Description Job Purpose Takes a lead role with the other IT QA Test Analysts in the development of the IT QA testing strategy, processes, test execution, ensuring test results meet agreed defined levels of quality, system test and system integration and technical testing acceptance criteria. Key Accountabilities Contributes to the creation of agreed IT test strategies that include requirements for all types of functional and technical testing (e.g. Performance, availability fail-over, security, etc) Contributes to the creation of test plans and assists in the identification of and scheduling of testing resource requirements Executes IT testing, produces timely and accurate test reporting and participates in raising defects and resolving issues that impede testing and escalation as necessary Contributes to the documentation and agreement of testing acceptance criteria with associated business and programme testing Ensures best practice, efficient and automated testing techniques are implemented Ensure that high quality Testing strategy and execution documentation is produced and maintained. Works closely with the development teams to ensure that planned releases are submitted to OSN CAB in a timely fashion, supporting the process of CAB submissions Requirements Qualifications, experience, skills and competencies Experience required: Substantial experience in Information Technology, typically possessing a minimum of 5 year's relevant experience, with a strong focus upon both functional and technical testing disciplines and software version control solutions Experience of test tools and testing automation capabilities Can demonstrate experience with Application Development & Maintenance (ADM) Programme and Project management methodologies such as PMI and Prince2 Experienced in applying Agile / Scrum methodologies Education requirement: Bachelor's or Master's degree in relevant field or equivalent work experience. Familiar with SQL, Java, .Net, Oracle, LDAP, HTML5, DRM, VMware, NetApp. Knowledge & Skills: Experience of current technologies and Pay TV industry trends Excellent organisational skills, communication skills and technical skills. A combination of strong technology skills and business acumen Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to communicate and present to senior level executives