Senior Quality Analyst

Company Description

Who we are

We are one of the largest international law firms in the world. With over 30 offices across the globe, we strive to exceed the expectations of our clients, providing them with the highest-quality advice and legal insight, which combines the firm’s global standards with in-depth local expertise.

Our firm, work and people span jurisdictions, cultures, and languages. We offer our clients a truly international perspective. We believe every career should be rewarding and stimulating - full of opportunities to learn, thrive, and grow. That’s why we’re so proud of our inclusive, friendly, and team-based approach to work.

You’ll find our clients in commercial and industrial sectors, the financial investor community, governments, regulators, trade bodies, and not-for-profit organisations. But no matter who they are or why they’ve reached out to us, we provide a world-class service every step of the way. And that’s possible thanks to the entrepreneurial spirit and conscientious approach to work that you’ll find across all of our teams.

Whichever area of the business you join, you’ll become an integral part an innovative, diverse and ambitious team of people. Clifford Chance is a place where the brightest minds and the best of colleagues meet.

Job Description

The role

As a Senior Quality member, you will oversee testing of applications developed by custom development. You will be involved in end-to-end processes and metrics for software testing within the organization and own the implementation of integration and other level of testing. You will collaborate with project managers and software developers to establish reporting metrics, test scenarios, and efficiencies through manual testing and stream lining QA techniques to achieve quality objectives. This role demands someone who has:

• Ability to work effectively in a fast paced and changing business environment.
• Flexibility, adaptability and work in minimal supervision if required are must have to be successful in this role.
• Responsible for mentoring and assisting junior resources in the team
• Strong analytical skills, effectiveness in problem-solving, results-oriented, pragmatic, hands-on person.
• Mature and proactive with a high sense of responsibility and reliability.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, proven track record of building strong relationships and establishing credibility with key stakeholders across different lines of business and hierarchies.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

How you will influence:

• Cultivate and disseminate best practices of quality and help to remove impediments
• Assist and steer the testing/QA teams to implement the test approach and execution; Ensure stakeholder are informed of progress towards objectives
• Help improve the overall quality of products & applications by analyzing Sunny days and Rainy days scenarios
• Improve the overall health of projects/applications by working with development and quality specialists

 Key responsibilities

• Analysing the requirement from testing perspective
• Closely working with scrum master and product owner to identify the risk areas
• In depth regression testing which will cover all components
• Creating test plans and writing test scripts
• Managing the defects logged and tracking them till they get closed
• Learning the existing functionality of the BI application and share your feedbacks

Qualifications

Your experience

Skills and Qualifications

• Ability to independently create test data as per the requirements
• Experience in database testing
• Experience writing complex queries in SQL
• Excellent client communication skills
• Hands on experience in Testing Automation, preferably using Selenium
• Well versed with testing methodologies
• Previous experience of testing Microsoft applications
• Experience working with Agile methodologies
• Ability to find, file and manage bugs, aggressively driving quality
• Experienced in testing larger scale projects/ quick changes from planning to sign off
• Exposure to Defect Tracking tool i.e. TFS, JIRA, Azure Devops
• Must have proven ability to provide project estimates and work- breakdown schedules
• Must be extremely responsive, able to work under pressure in crisis with a strong sense of urgency
• Hands on experience on JMeter

Preferred but not mandatory

• ISTQB or ISEB certification foundation level
• Good understanding of Rally or similar test management tool

Education and Experience

• Requires Bachelors in Engineering Degree or equivalent
• 4+ years professional experience in testing

Additional Information

Equal opportunities statement

At Clifford Chance, we understand that our true asset is our people. Inclusion is good for our team and their families, our firm and society.

We are committed to treating all employees and applicants fairly and equally regardless of their gender, gender identity and expression, marital or civil partnership status, race, colour, national or ethnic origin, social or economic background, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation, or age.  This applies to recruitment and selection, terms and conditions of employment including pay, promotion, training, transfer and every other aspect of employment.

We have a variety of flourishing employee networks. These networks are a place for colleagues to share experiences and advocate for change wherever they see an opportunity for improvement.

Our goal is to deliver an equality of opportunity, an equality of aspiration and an equality of experience to everyone who works in our firm. 

Find out more about our inclusive culture here

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