Test Analyst — Functional Public Sector
Type: Contract
Location: Dublin, Hybrid
Salary:
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What’s involved:
- Plan, coordinate, and execute functional, integration, system, UAT, regression, and release testing
- Develop, manage, and execute manual test cases and test scenarios
- Write and maintain automated tests using Playwright
- Test complex, custom-built full-stack web applications developed in .NET
- Use Azure DevOps for test creation, management, execution, and defect tracking
- Identify, log, track, and manage defects through to resolution
- Manage test data and use SQL to run queries and update data
- Validate system changes against business requirements and acceptance criteria
- Work closely with development teams in Agile environments
- Communicate defects, risks, and quality concerns to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Support regression testing, release validation, and production issues
- Contribute to test documentation and continuous improvement of testing processes
- Support end users of custom full-stack web applications where required
What you need:
- 5+ years' experience in software testing
- Strong functional testing experience across manual, integration, system, UAT, and regression testing
- Hands-on experience testing complex .NET/full-stack web applications
- Experience writing automated tests using Playwright
- Strong hands-on experience with Azure DevOps for test management and defect tracking
- Working knowledge of SQL, including running queries and updating data
- Experience with test data management and defect lifecycle management
- Experience working closely with development teams in Agile environments
- Strong requirements validation and business requirements testing experience
- Experience testing enterprise-level software solutions across medium and large-scale projects
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, and communication skills
- ISTQB or equivalent testing certification is desirable
- End-user support and incident management experience is desirable
- Experience with security aspects of public-facing websites is desirable
What’s on offer:
- 12 Month contract
- Hybrid working – 2 days onsite and 3 days from home
- Opportunity to work on complex enterprise-level applications