Senior Quality Analyst

Woven between all the stages of the delivery process is the work of a Quality Analyst: the technologist who focuses on the complexity and risk inherent in building solutions. By collaborating with each team member—Developer, Business Analyst, Designer, etc.—they ensure quality is thoughtfully examined in both processes and technology. QAs are more than testers; they're team motivators and strive to inspire all teammates to weave quality into their mindsets and code.

Job 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

Job qualifications

Technical skills

• You 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
• You 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
• You are comfortable suggesting changes to both on premise and cloud architectures for enhancing quality
• You can perform different types of functional and cross-functional testing including performance and security testing across varied architectures
• You know how to best leverage metrics to improve lead time, deployment frequency, mean time to recovery and change fail rate
• You can design quality strategies and can produce one for the team
• Knowledge of user experience and user research including prototyping, personas and AB testing, which can be translated into a test strategy

Professional skills

• You enjoy influencing teammates and advocating for quality as a shared team responsibility
• You are passionate about ensuring the correct product is being built, not just that it is being built correctly
• You work in a communicative and collaborative way
• You thrive in safe, collaborative environments where different opinions, ideas and perspectives are freely shared

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If you have most but not all of the skills we ask for, don’t worry! You don't have to check all the boxes. Feel free to apply!

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Other things to know

Learning & Development (L&D)

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.

Benefits

We offer thoughtful, well-rounded benefits to support your personal and professional development goals and your health and well being. Benefits packages are periodically reviewed to provide the best work experience, ensuring everyone is supported on their journey with us. 
Some of the perks you will enjoy while working with us are:

• Enjoy a flexible benefits budget (restaurants/public transport/nursery/health insurance)
• Keep growing thanks to Learning budget 
• Enjoy 2 days extra days off per year for learning
• Unlimited Business Udemy access to learn
• Brush up your English, Spanish, Catalan thanks to free online classes
• Take care of your mental well-being thanks to ifeel app 
• Get a work from home budget 
• Team outing budget 
• Business trips will be stress free thanks to travel insurance 
• Enjoy working in an international, diverse and inclusive environment

Our contribution to the Tech community

Our job is to foster a vibrant community where technologists from all walks of life come together to build solutions that look past the obvious. One of the ways we do this is through publications. Here are some examples: Learning Test Driven Development by Saleem Siddiqui and Full Stack Testing book by Gayathri Mohan.

Job Details

Country: Spain
City: Barcelona
Date Posted: 01-16-2023
Industry: Information Technology
Employment Type: Regular

About Thoughtworks

Thoughtworks is a global technology consultancy that integrates strategy, design and engineering to drive digital innovation. For 28+ years, our clients have trusted our autonomous teams to build solutions that look past the obvious. Here, computer science grads come together with seasoned technologists, self-taught developers, midlife career changers and more to learn from and challenge each other. Career journeys flourish with the strength of our cultivation culture, which has won numerous awards around the world.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, we value diversity and it's one of our core values. Here at Thoguhtworks, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

Join Thoughtworks and thrive. Together, our extra curiosity, innovation, passion and dedication overcomes ordinary.

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