Junior QA Analyst – Population Health Analytics
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| Job Type | Permanent |
| Area | Homebased, United Kingdom |
| Sector | IT |
| Start Date | |
| Job Ref | LH10037 |
- Description
Salary: £25,000 to £30,000 + benefits
Population Health Analytics is a huge growth area for our client. They have customer solutions holding billions of records and use entirely cutting-edge Microsoft Azure cloud technology to deliver their services. This new role is permanent and will involve working with the QA Manager in a highly passionate team supporting a wide range of health and care organisations to improve the health of their populations.
The successful candidate will assist the QA Manager in the continuing design and implementation of fit for purpose Quality Assurance for Population Health Analytics, ensuring outstanding quality in their customer deliverables.
The Population Health Analytics team is supporting a wide range of regional and national projects to improving the health of the population. The current worldwide COVID-19 crisis has proved that utilising timely data and insight can help save lives. The team has been in the thick of things developing analytics solutions to help manage the crisis. Their team are highly experienced and passionate about health and care; using technology to help improve the health and care of the nation. This role provides the successful candidate the chance to contribute to Population Health Analytics programmes throughout the country.
Key Responsibilities:
· Developing of Test cases for Software applications, Power BI Reports and Dashboards
· Execution of tests and recording outcome of tests, escalation of defects and identified opportunities for product improvement
· Collaborating with members of the development team to provide QA feedback and drive-up product quality e.g. exploration and resolution of defects identified
· Maintain and enhance existing Test suite
· Assisting with the QA process, planning, tracking, and reporting of test executions for defined product releases
· Perform accurate functional and Data Validation testing on Power BI Reports/Dashboards
· Collaborating with other software testers and implementation staff to facilitate the testing of the software and where required, third party integrated software
· Assist in the development and implementation of processes, protocols and procedures to improve the quality of our software and customer deliverables
· Assist the development and consultancy teams in investigating and resolving problems with software
· Other Duties – as required by the team from time to time
Experience (Required):
· Between 2-4 years software testing experience; of which some QA experience would be desirable
· Understanding of software testing techniques and QA processes
· Some experience in diagnosing, reporting and tracking data quality and software issues
· Experience with databases, with hands on knowledge of SQL
· Experience with data analysis and business intelligence/data visualisation software, Power BI (or similar)
· Experience developing test cases for data verification
· Experience using a professional Test Management system e.g. Quality Centre, Quality Manager, Jira
· Experience of working within a team of software testers, developers/data analysts in a software development environment
· Ability to work in a structured environment e.g., with defined test cases and an aptitude to think more widely about the context of such work and broader interdependencies
· Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and oral)
Experience (Desirable):
· Experience of quality assurance and data validation of analytics and business intelligence products
· Knowledge of or work experience within the health or social care sectors
· With knowledge of health and/or social care data sets and clinical coding
· Experience of remote working in a geographically dispersed team
· Knowledge of the end-to-end software development life cycle
· Experience of working in an Agile Scrum team
Qualifications:
· ISEB Foundation/ISTQB qualification in Software Testing (desirable)
· A Bachelor’s Degree in related subject (desirable)
Personal Attributes:
· Passionate and enthusiastic about your craft with a love of sharing knowledge
· Analytical, data-oriented with a sharp eye for detail
· Ability to organise, co-ordinate and prioritise day to day workloads in a dynamic environment
· Ability to work through problems, identify and implement robust solutions quickly and independently
· Ability to use a varied set of technical platforms and components
· Aptitude to quickly grasp new concepts and information
· Methodical and thorough approach to problem solving
· Strong inter-personal and communication skills
· Passionate about Quality
Job Title: Junior QA Analyst – Population Health Analytics
Location: Homebased
Salary: £25,000 to £30,000 + benefits
Job Type: Permanent
Job Reference: LH10037
Wilde Associates is working in the capacity of an Employment Agency for this role
