Quality Assurance Analyst- Nenagh Based

As a key leader in our fintech-focused projects, you will guide test consultants through implementing innovative methodologies and tools across payment and POS solutions. Your role will involve mentoring and providing strategic direction to the team, ensuring that every deliverable meets the highest quality standards. Working within a high-performance environment, you’ll have the opportunity to shape cutting-edge payment technologies while accelerating your career in a fast-paced, dynamic sector.

This role is fully onsite in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. Responsibilities

• Direct a QA team, and gather information from business stakeholders to verify and prioritise a set of business requirements
• Prepare, execute and document test cases based on Business & Functional Requirements to ensure thorough testing of requirements in a fast-paced environment
• Work with clients to understand existing or new processes and systems in order to provide high quality advice and deliverables
• Work attentively with the Expleo testing services (functional, automated and performance) to deliver a seamless overall quality service
• Work closely with the clients’ Technical Architects and Developers and be able to ‘translate’ the business requirements to functional requirements for these teams
• Ensure that the scope of a design iteration doesn't vary unless authorised by the Business Stakeholders
• Report issues to management where these could have an impact on a major deadline
• Mentor less experienced analysts and motivate others to provide innovative solutions for team improvement
• Review test cases written by peers to ensure that all requirements are covered in test case documentation
• Re-test bugs to confirm that they have been corrected
• Review, mentor and assign tasks to junior QA staff
• Bring a quality focus to product releases
• Have a customer mind-set and eye for detail with applications under test

Qualifications

• A degree-level qualification in a Computer Science discipline
• ISTQB certification
• Non-functional testing experience within payments and POS environments essential

Essential Skills

• Strong background in API testing
• Proven experience on large-scale programmes in fintech, payments, or POS ecosystems.
• Excellent client-facing skills
• People management skills - introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other, encouraging mentoring and the transfer of knowledge by designing and delivering learning interventions
• Teamwork and emotional intelligence
• Good self-management – continuous performance is both a goal and a mind-set
• Have an innovative approach – a bold thinker and doer, matching creativity with vigilance
• High value on openness and transparency
• Ability to influence Stakeholders
• Excellent time management and the ability to work to tight deadlines

Experience

• Demonstrable experience in a Test lead position as well as 3 years’ experience testing across a variety of environments including fintech, payments & POS.
• Scoping and creating functional and non-functional test plans and test data, maintaining the integrity of the test environment
• Strong background in API Testing
• Test estimation and test planning experience essential
• Quality focused with attention to detail

Benefits At Expleo, we are committed to providing a competitive salary and substantial benefits offering with unique wellbeing, financial and employee recognition programmes.

We pride ourselves on our diverse and inclusive culture and offer a variety of family friendly policies and enhanced leave to help you achieve a healthy work life balance.

By providing significant learning and development opportunities, we encourage individual growth and success throughout your career with us.

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more!
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and question the status quo.

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”.

At Expleo, we understand that many people experience impostor syndrome throughout their lifetime, please do not let this discourage you from applying for this role. Our Talent Acquisition Team welcomes all CV’s and will consider your application in line with the values, requirements and role competencies.