Established in March 2002, Test Direct, now QualiTest Group, are one of the UK's leading providers of independent IT testing and quality assurance services across the full testing lifecycle for both the private and the public sector (via the G-Cloud framework) https://www.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/g-cloud/supplier/93185. We have an extensive track record of supporting our clients in successfully delivering major change programmes and we are passionate about the benefits of effective and efficient testing.

Responsibilities:• Organising the test team using resource planning in order to meet deadlines including the use of agile testing.• Producing test plans, test strategies, test matrices, test scripts, test cases and test reports.• Overseeing delivery to test via effective entrance criteria including unit test reports and release notes. • Keeping bug tracking systems up to date using organisational skills.• Co-ordinating User Acceptance Testing and also involvement in training of racecourse staff.• Dealing with 3rd party partners worldwide to resolve any issues that they have in regard to access to systems or general system queries. • Involved in the switchover of the software on our current systems to brand new systems with a new partner. o Daily meetings to go through the bugs and resolution of these also including conference calls. o Involvement in carrying out the actual testing on the new systems, including analysing reports. o Also including co-ordination of inviting 3rd parties to come in to test on the new software and systems prior to go live including the actual ‘hands-on’ testing with these 3rd parties, both UK and overseas based.• Controlling and enhancing the test environments. Overseeing build deployments subject to successful entrance criteria being met.• Approving and co-ordinating any server moves and any maintenance required.• Network change co-ordination to assist 3rd parties to connect to systems, also internal changes between test environments.

Day to day testing in regard to project and maintenance testing, along with liaising with other departments and customers (UK and abroad) in regard to integration with our systems.

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