The Role

At Unite Students our aim is to create a Home for Success for our students, using technology and data to empower them to find their home and have a great stay with us, and a great experience throughout their student life.

Reporting to the QA Lead, the QA Analyst will be part of the IT quality assurance team responsible for ensuring the quality of our systems. They will be responsible for testing new and changed features and functions of internal and external facing systems, websites and mobile apps, following test best practice to deliver this they will work closely with product owners, developers and other QA analysts to ensure all software meets required acceptance criteria, and any issues are identified and resolved.

This role will require a strong understanding of testing methodologies, risk management and quality assurance processes . Your strategic oversight will ensure that all test related activities are managed and delivered on time and within budget while integrating the enterprise test strategy into the technology estate.

What You`ll Be Doing

• Managing and Maintaining Test Automation suites and pipelines
• Ensure effective stakeholder relationships are maintained, ensuring reporting and updates are provided on progress and any issues raised.
• Deliver all required test tasks for allocated systems and ensure product quality meets agreed requirements.
• Create defect records for all issues found during testing and ensure they are tracked and progressed until resolved.
• Review user stories and requirements to ensure that acceptance criteria are testable and unambiguous
• Extract test cases from story acceptance criteria
• Liaise with product owners, end user and developers
• Prepare, run and maintain test scripts
• Complete compatibility testing on multiple browsers and devices
• Run and maintain regression packs
• Raise, track and retest defects in Azure Dev Ops
• Define test tasks to ensure that acceptance criteria are met
• Review supplier test evidence against coverage and provide feedback
• Develop and maintain product knowledge for all systems allocated for project testing
• Build relationships with relevant business users and support teams, including product owners, subject matter experts and developers
• Keep up to date with testing best practice and guidelines

What We`re Looking for in You

• Experience with test automation tools, for example Cypress and Patrol
• Knowledge of test processes and methodologies
• Experience testing Finance systems including Oracle Fusion
• Experience testing HR Systems
• Experience working with HR Asset data
• Experience of testing web and enterprise applications
• API, Pact or Contract Testing Experience
• Ability to write clear test scripts
• Demonstrable ability to be able to communicate clearly and concisely with end users and developers
• Knowledge and use of Azure Dev Ops or equivalent

What You`ll Get in Return

• An annual bonus so you can share in the company`s success
• 25 days` paid holiday
• Pension - based on how much you save, we`ll contribute 1% more
• Flexible working opportunities
• Shared Parental Leave - 18 weeks full pay
• Other benefits include, ShareSave, Bike to Work, Charity Match, amazing discounts and more!

About Unite Students

Founded in 1991, Unite Students is a FTSE 100 business and the UK`s leading provider of purpose-built student accommodation. You can find us in 25 leading university towns and cities, with over 70,000 students calling US home! We are driven by our values, culture, and a commitment to develop diverse and inclusive teams, filled with positive energy and new ideas.

Instinctive inclusion. We know that to create and maintain a happy healthy organisation, we have to work hard to ensure inclusion isn`t just what we do but who we are.

People make Unite Students. Employees, students, and neighbours all contribute to building environments where we can all thrive.

Room for Everyone

We`re proud to be an employer that embraces individuality, and we`re passionate about building inclusive teams. We focus on creating a collaborative culture where you can be you, where your voice is heard, and where you can truly belong. We take great pride in being rated Gold Investors in People and are constantly striving to provide the highest standard of learning and development opportunities and professional pathways for our people. Building a home for success, for both our employees and students, requires exceptional people with a passion for creating room for everyone, doing what`s right, keeping US safe, and raising the bar. Join us as we build better experiences for students that live with us.

We are US.