Supporting the business and our divisional offices, our Head Office functions cover all departments from our Executive Board through to our support functions such as Group Design and Technical, HR, Health and Safety, IT, Sales and Marketing, Commercial, Procurement, Group Finance, Corporate Affairs, as well as Legal and Company Secretariat. We also have a specialised function – Barratt Partnerships.
While the work varies from team to team, our key requirements don’t: you must be well organised, extremely helpful and resourceful, and able to use your initiative. You’ll understand that what you do is important, and impacts on your team, the department, and the wider business.
Reporting to the IT Quality Assurance Manager, you will be responsible for defining and executing the testing activities for software solutions.
You will be expected to:
- Define and execute the testing activities for software solutions, including system testing, integration testing, performance testing and supporting UAT.
- Be responsible for test planning.
- Prepare test scripts and test data ready for the execution of testing activities in the relevant environments.
- Write and execute SQL to assess the data required for testing.
- Organise and confirm the setup of the environments needed for testing, compiling and validating test data where required.
- Execute test scripts in the relevant environments.
- Be responsible for preparing testing status reports.
- Prepare and maintain activity schedules, written reports, and visual progress charts where required.
- Update the IT Quality Assurance Manager regularly regarding the status of testing activities.
- Provide technical guidance, support and mentoring to junior IT Quality Assurance team members and drive continuous improvement.