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We are looking for a
Agile Senior Test Analyst
for our Digital & Customer Experience Unit Department
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At Vodafone, we’re working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it's our human spirit, together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this.
We challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.
With us, you can be truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference.
Your place in the team
The Senior Test Analyst will represent functional testing and business quality expectations in key projects and programs. Senior Analyst will coordinate project tests under a given program and will be responsible to select a testing method that gives required coverage and prepare test plans and resource estimations accordingly. This role will own UAT entry and exit criteria and will be responsible to achieve them as per project schedule.
Beyond test analyst works this role is responsible to transform found issues into business risks. During triage meetings this role is responsible to represent detailed knowledge about every issues in every IT processes and protect business interest while requesting and scheduling fixes with developers.
This role is responsible to ensure smooth test execution by defect prioritization and classification.
You will be involved in the following tasks
Test Planning
- Prepare and maintain test roadmap
- Plan defect fixing and deployment windows
- Prepare UAT test plan and align it with the test strategy
- Determine scope and out of scope items and validate them with IT and business areas
- Establish communication channels with all the peer areas (IT, development, OPS and business)
- Prepare resource estimations
- Arrange UAT plans with peer test managers, stream and program managers
Test Design
- Determine which test techniques must be used and what should be content
- Optimize test suits and overview full test calendar
- Understand new product development items’ functionality
- Understand system capabilities and high level design of functions
- Collection information about every available documents, information which can be used as a test basis
- Cooperate with IT to understand design specifications.
- Cooperate with business parties to validate testable functions, requirements
- Gather functional requirements and create high level test calendar according to the planned functionalities
- Design end to end test calendars according to business requirements and system capabilities
- Prepare sanity instances and regression test suite
- Set up test execution test plan and sequence if required
- Administer test cases, instances in test management tool and link them to relevant business requirements
- Prepare test data and test data request to aim test execution
- Administer test cases, instances in test management tool and link them to relevant business requirements
- Have high level test calendar approved by all relevant business and IT parties
- Present new project capabilities and completed test calendar to peer test analyst and to delegated test experts
- Support test manager by providing test resource estimation
- Insert new functions delivered by CRs into test calendar in later phases of test process
Test Execution
- Act as super user during UAT execution and help test analysts, expert with knowledge sharing
- Confirmation that the system under test is compliant with all the gathered business requirements
- Execute business tests (sanity, UAT, live test and in special cases FUT) according to test calendar if required
- Coordinate test expert during test execution and help smooth test execution
- Administer every discrepancies from expected results and the results of test instances in test management tool
- Maintain and update test cases in test management tool
- Investigate side effects of defect fixes and execute holistic change related test (retest and regression) with proper administration in test management tool
Defect management
- Own defect triage meeting and represent, protect business needs, requests
- Gain a holistic understanding over every found defects regardless to the reporter units (IT, testing or business)
- Overview every defect by developers during triage meeting and set a fixing schedule that will support smooth test execution
- Work closely with defect and release management and ensure clear communication lines about found issues and fixing
- Track fixing schedule and ensure that developers deliver with quality in time
- Support go - no go by grouping issues into Go Live Critical (CLC) and not GLC groups
- Track defect administration and correct it wherever it is required
Reporting
- Support daily test status preparation by providing information about project’s test status and highlighting key issues
- Participate project status meeting and circulate testing status in details if required
- Support defect manager and/or defect triage lead by providing information about defects and emphasize their side effects if there is any
- Provide information for go / no go decision slide preparation
Agile test coordination
- Support sprint planning and act as SPOC to product owners
- Ensure that testing is represented in agile squads
- Responsible to track available testing capacity during sprint planning
- Coordinate test experts allocated to a given sprint
- Manage test knowledge transfers over sprints
We are looking for you if you have
- Completed IT BSC/MSC degree
- ISTQB CTAL (Certified Test Analyst) certification
- ISTQB CTFL Agile Extension certification
- ISTQB CTFL (Certified Tester Foundation Level) certification
- 10+ years of experience in test design and planning in a multinational company
- 10+ year experience in SOAP UI and SQL
- 8+ years of experience with JIRA and/or HP lifecycle application management systems
- 8+ years of experience in coordination of test experts
- 4+ years of experience in building agile testing squads
- 4+ years of experience in Agile delivery as part of squads
- Fluent English and Native Hungarian
Soft skills
- Able to overview complex IT architectures and system level cooperation
- Able to understand IT issues and translate them into business process effects
- Able to translate business requests onto (IT) system level
- Capable of resolving conflicts
- Team player
- Good analytical and strategic skills and focus
- Good interpersonal and influencing skills
- Strategic outlook, attention to detail
- Excellent presentation, written and verbal communications skills
- Proactive, can work individually but very good team player
- Able to synthesize complicated concepts and to simplify the complex issues
What we offer
- Cafeteria package & annual bonus
- Laptop & mobile phone (with RED unlimited voice and data tariff package)
- Hybrid way of working (working from home / from the office)
- Medicover Health Insurance
- Wellbeing program in the topics of sport, nutrition, relax and help (spiritual support)
- 4 paid days leave/year for charity projects
- Other discounts (e.g. sport opportunities, eye-glass allowance)
- Parental policy: we offer 16 weeks fully paid leave and upon returning to work, new parents can work part-time hours for 6 months whilst being paid their full-time salary.
- Learning opportunities (internal trainings and LinkedIn Learning)
- New green, digital headquarter that has almost zero emissions thanks to its solar panels installed to supply the building with renewable energy (11th district)
Get to know us
If you want to know more about us and what we do, then
- visit our website: https://careers.vodafone.com/
- follow our career page on Facebook: www.facebook.com/VodafoneKarrier
Vodafone is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised and rewarded.
We are committed to promoting Inclusion for All with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business. We actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey.
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