Systems Tester (7385)

The Guinness Partnership provides services to more than 140,000 customers in our 65,000 homes nationwide. With a turnover of £370m and a truly national presence, Guinness is one of the leading housing providers in the sector.

About the role
We currently have a requirement for a skilled Tester to join our IT team on a 12-month fixed term contract basis.  The Test team is made up of a Test Manager, 2 Senior Testers, and 6 System Testers, with a good range of business and industry specific experience.

The Team are working on numerous projects including replacing our current Asset Management System and integrating it into our core Housing System. 

The successful candidate will analyze requirements, develop test plans, cases and scripts to test newly developed Information Systems and changes to operational systems; document the test cases and scripts and report on test success criteria. In addition, you will support the testing of problem fixes during the maintenance of operational Information Systems and be involved in conducting or supporting other appropriate test phases, i.e. User Acceptance Testing, System Regression, Performance Testing, Operational Assurance Testing.

What we’re looking for
You’ll be an experienced System Tester with excellent attention to detail and the ability to prioritise and manage a varied workload.

The focus of this role is to take details from a design document and produce detailed stepped test scripts that everyone in the team can follow.  Therefore, excellent analytical skills with the ability to identify potential areas of risk in the design and create tests to ensure they don't result in system issues is paramount.

The successful candidate will need to be a strong communicator, comfortable speaking directly to business SMEs to understand how the business will use the system to write high quality functional test scripts. 
Must have willingness to learn new systems and be adaptable to new working environments and not afraid to ask questions of support from the rest of the team if needed. 
The team currently use Azure DevOps to support the testing process, so previous experience of using ADO would be advantageous.  Good knowledge of Microsoft Office.

Essential Qualifications:

• Qualified to ISTQB Foundation Tester level.
   

Desirable Qualifications:

• Educated to degree level in an IT related degree relating to application development
• Prince2 or equivalent
• Microsoft and/or Oracle Professional Certification

If you’re interested in finding out more about the key responsibilities of the role and/or to ensure you meet the essential criteria, please review the attached role profile.

The Guinness Partnership is an equal opportunities employer.  We are committed to equality of opportunity for all colleagues, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.