Canada Life is improving its product and technology suite, resulting in substantial IT and Business Change. This places significant demands on the existing testing capabilities across Canada Life and their 3rd party partners.
Job title: Senior Test Analyst x2
Location: Potters Bar or Isle of Man
Job type: Permanent
Who we are
Canada Life UK looks after the retirement, investment and protection needs of individuals, families and companies. We help to build better futures for our customers, our intermediaries and our employees by operating as a modern, agile and welcoming organisation.
Part of our parent company Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life UK has operated in the United Kingdom since 1903. We have hundreds of respected and supported employees committed to doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues.
Canada Life UK is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions, and providing collective fund solutions to third party customers.
What we’re building
We now need 2 Senior Test Analyst to support the transformation and the future growth of the business within the IT function, so it can simplify our IT architecture by removing our legacy systems and investing in modernised, lower-cost technology systems, and deliver a digital platform that provides a single view of our customers.
Job summary
Canada Life is improving its product and technology suite, resulting in substantial IT and Business Change. This places significant demands on the existing testing capabilities across Canada Life and their 3rd party partners.
As a result, the QA Team is expanding to meet these demands and the Senior Test Analyst will be a key contributor to the IT department during this time.
Based in Bristol and reporting directly to the QA Manager, the Senior Test Analyst will lead the hands-on testing of projects, mentor junior team members and work with the REST of the team to implement the use of an agile delivery methodology and test automation framework.
There may be future permanent role opportunities in the Test Team.
What you’ll do
•Work closely with Business Analysts to define accurate and complete requirements and acceptance criteria.
•Adhering to "Best Practice" for test processes, test preparation and test execution.
•Carry out all test related activities in support of the business requirements
•Deliver Test Plans, Test Scripts, User Stories, and Acceptance Criteria & Tests in line with the identified project delivery methodology
•Manage the activities involved in delivering the specific test tasks.
•Ensure the quality of all developed functionality is future-proofed through the development and maintenance of an automated regression test pack.
•Prioritise your own work load as well as that of junior members of the project / scrum team.
•Mentor junior team members in all aspects of QA, agile methodologies and test automation.
•Use experience to ascertain relevant test coverage, such as applying a risk-based approach, and be able to highlight the risks to the business from a testing perspective.
•Work with the Test Lead & QA Manager to identify process improvement opportunities.
•Challenge requirements and existing processes to drive process improvement.
•Champion the implementation of an agile delivery and automated test approach.
•Support the Test Lead & QA Manager through the reporting of test metrics.
Who you are
Essential:
•Proven experience working with Business Analysts and other project stakeholders to define requirements and acceptance criteria.
•Comprehensive testing experience across different phases of testing e.g. System Testing, UAT as well as both functional and non-functional testing.
•Strong experience working within an agile development methodology as well as experience working within a waterfall delivery methodology.
•Insurance or Financial Services experience.
•Experience working with 3rd party suppliers and remotely located test teams.
•Excellent knowledge of manual testing methods and methods used to identify test scenarios and criteria.
•Knowledge of test automation best practice and exposure to test automation tools.
Preferable:
•ISTQB / ISEB qualified, preferably to Advanced or Practitioner level.
•Knowledge of automated test frameworks and experience of writing and maintaining automated tests suites.
•Experience using Jira / Zephyr for Test Case Management.
•Previous experience of testing on large scale projects / transformation programmes.
•Knowledge and experience of Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery and related best practices.
•Experience of BDD and TDD.
What you’ll like about working here
As a Canada Life UK colleague, you’ll receive a competitive salary and comprehensive reward package including income protection, private medical insurance and life assurance, along with a generous pension and bonus scheme. You’ll also receive the support you need with your personal and professional development.
Our focus is to have an engaged, committed and motivated work force, operating in a high performing and collaborative culture. We want to create an organisation that offers opportunities for all our people to develop their skills and talent, and build rewarding careers with us.
Diversity and inclusion
Canada Life is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our role as an employer of choice is to provide the right environment for talented people to do their best work, by respecting, understanding and valuing individual differences.