Lead QA Analyst

Aucerna is the world leading provider of Integrated Strategy, Planning and Reserves solutions for the Oil and Gas Industry.

We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage applications from all qualified individuals. We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive work environment where every employee feels valued and respected. We will consider accessibility accommodations to applicants upon request.

• End to end testing of the Aucerna application suite (both products on the market and in R&D), from planning to post deployment.
• Designing, implementing, testing, deploying and maintaining testing suites to provide high code coverage.
• Reviewing and challenging functional specifications for specificity and testability, and contributing to the overall development of the automation test suite using CodedUI.
• Developing and owning test artefacts (including test plans and test scripts), both functional and non-functional
• Taking ownership of functional areas to ensure that appropriate business analysis and development activities are in place e.g. code reviews, appropriate unit test coverage, user story documentation.
• Executing functional, regression, non-functional (performance, latency, resilience, etc.) tests and managing defects
• Defining and tracking quality assurance metrics such as defects, defect counts, test results and test status.
• Assessing automation readiness, defining coverage and providing specifications for automated tests.

Person Specification

• 8+ Years of Experience in Software Quality Assurance, that encompasses all stages in software development and testing lifecycle
• Experience working within an Agile development environment
• Experience in using Test Asset Management and Execution tools such as Microsoft Test Manager, OnTime, HP Quality Centre, TFS.
• Experience in testing complex business processes.
• Familiarity with MS SQL and relational databases.
• Expert working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• Personable and enthusiastic team player and self-starter with the ability to take the initiative in resolving challenges.
• ISEB Qualifications or similar.
• Previous experience working as a Business Analyst.
• Experience with Dev Ops and Continuous Integration
• Automation experience (preferably using VBScript and C#) and working knowledge of one or more mainstream test automation tools such as CodedUI, QTP, Test Complete or Load Runner.
• Any experience of working within petroleum industry or a financial services organisation is highly desirable.
• Experience with auditing financial calculation results or background in accounting or finance.
• Experience with advanced financial evaluation techniques such as Monte Carlo simulations, decision trees, tornado diagrams, spider diagrams, portfolio management, efficient frontiers or real options theory.

The role can be based in London or Aberdeen and this can be discussed.