Senior Quality Analyst

Summary

Join Thoughtworks as a Quality Analyst and play a pivotal role in ensuring the quality of our software and products. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, advocating for quality from the initial stages of development. Responsibilities include exploratory testing, suggesting code improvements, contributing to automated testing, and coaching team members. You will leverage your expertise in various testing methodologies and technologies to build reliable and maintainable solutions. Thoughtworks offers a supportive and collaborative environment where you can grow your career and contribute to a global tech community. We value a culture of continuous learning and development, empowering our employees to thrive.

Requirements

• Have worked as a Quality Analyst as part of a wider development team, pairing with Devs, Business Analysts, Infrastructure Engineers, and Designers to embed quality and testing mindsets within different roles
• Have experience testing with Java
• Have experience with agile, code management, deployment strategies and release management
• Familiarity with practices such as TDD, BDD, CI/CD and models such as Test Pyramid and Swiss cheese
• Be comfortable suggesting changes to both on premise and cloud architectures for enhancing quality
• Be able to perform different types of functional and cross-functional testing including performance and security testing across varied architectures
• Know how to best leverage metrics to improve lead time, deployment frequency, mean time to recovery and change fail rate
• Be able to design quality strategies and can produce one for the team
• Have knowledge of user experience and user research including prototyping, personas and AB testing, which can be translated into a test strategy
• Enjoy influencing teammates and advocating for quality as a shared team responsibility
• Be passionate about ensuring the correct product is being built, not just that it is being built correctly
• Work in a communicative and collaborative way
• Thrive in safe, collaborative environments where different opinions, ideas and perspectives are freely shared

Responsibilities

• Advocate for quality being built into software and products and aspire to 'shift quality to the left' i.e. highlight and put measures for risk mitigations within the team as early as possible
• Collaborate with cross-functional teammates to embed quality at every stage of product evolution from ideation to customer usage
• Regularly carry out exploratory testing to gain insights and uncover potential risks
• Offer improvements to code, tests, testability and suggest tools and frameworks
• Examine end-to-end processes including test coverage across all layers of the tech stack, ensuring quality is embedded throughout
• Contribute to the creation of a reliable and maintainable automated testing suite to ensure simple, effective analysis of failures and avoid any test case duplication
• Alter team approach based on standards and regulations in certain industries
• Coach the client's team and encourage them to adopt a quality mindset
• Advocate QA expertise to the broader tech community in Thoughtworks, speaking at conferences and acting as a mentor for junior-level QAs

Benefits

• There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. This means your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow. We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys
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