IT SW Manual Testing Specialist

Location Birmingham
Discipline: Test, Software, Business
Job type: Contract
Salary: £27.21p/h Inside IR35 Via UMBRELLA
Contact name: Laura Hopson

Contact email: lhopson@select-engineering.net
Contact phone: 01245403560
Job ref: 36799395
Published: 2 days ago
Duration: 12 Months
Expiry date: 07 May 2026 23:59
Startdate: ASAP

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

Duties: 

  • This is a fantastic opportunity to work on a new Special Vehicles Operations (SVO) facility where you will get up-close and personal with the companies most prestigious products.

  • To enable the company to meet our ambitious digitalisation plans, a Business Systems Delivery team has been established as part of the development of a class leading, high performing and best practice Transformation Organisation. This team is the crucial bridge between technical delivery and local site or global adoption, acting as the mechanism to maximise the value and benefit of the manufacturing systems programmes within the business.

  • The team combines Business Change, Training and Testing expertise to deliver a high-quality end user deployment experience. Together, they are accountable for managing the change and deploying the manufacturing systems programme content across the companies global footprint.

Role and Purpose:

  • Working for the Test Manager, you will work within one of our site-based testing teams (although some cross site support may occasionally be necessary), supporting User Acceptance Testing and Production Acceptance Testing of deliveries impacting manufacturing execution, quality and reporting systems.

  • You will be required to coordinate activities within these test phases, ensuring all agreed business requirements are successfully delivered, and that appropriate governance and compliance is met.

This will include the following activities:

  • Facilitating governance readiness sessions to assess suitability to enter each test phase.

  • Creating and executing appropriate manual UAT and PAT test scenarios and scripts

  • Using the company test management tooling (primarily HP ALM, but some Jira instances may be involved) to capture and evidence the UAT / PAT results.

  • Recording and tracking defects to resolution through a standard process

  • Engaging with stakeholders to support testing and report out on status.

  • Input to, or creation of, Test Completion Reports

Experience Required:

  • 5+ years’ experience in a similar Test Analyst role, including experience of the above activities in UAT

  • Experience in Manufacturing (Desirable)

  • Working with different stakeholder groups, some of whom may not be too familiar with testing processes, value and benefits

Skills:   

  • Proficient at HP ALM and Jira (the latter Desirable)

  • Knowledge of Manufacturing processes (Desirable)

  • Strong analytical skills e.g. statistical analysis and data flow testing

  • Waterfall or Agile delivery methodology

  • A good standard of English with strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills

  • Microsoft Office - PowerPoint, Word, Excel, SharePoint, etc.

Education:         

  • Qualified to ISTQB (or ISEB) Foundation level