Senior Tester - #2162484

Senior Tester | Analytical Pipeline Migration & Data Gateway

Role Purpose

We are seeking a Senior Tester to provide end-to-end quality assurance across the RIPT Analytical Pipeline Migration (APM) and Data Gateway & Publications workstreams. The role will assure the complete journey:

Source Data → Analytical Pipeline → Data Transformation → API/Data Feed → Data Gateway → Public-Facing Product

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver risk-based test strategies, plans and scenarios across data and digital services.
• Test analytical pipelines, data transformations, migrations and source-to-target reconciliation.
• Validate data accuracy, completeness, consistency and business rules from source through to publication.
• Perform functional, integration, API, regression and end-to-end testing across frontend and backend services.
• Test publication templates, dashboards, automated feeds and public-facing services, including accessibility and responsive testing.
• Maintain traceability across requirements → test scenarios → evidence → defects → acceptance.
• Manage test data, environments, dependencies, defects and delivery risks.
• Identify opportunities for automation, particularly for API, regression, data validation and pipeline testing.
• Support UAT, business acceptance, release-readiness assessments and production verification.
• Work collaboratively with Product, BA, Data Engineering, Software Engineering and client stakeholders, providing clear quality and risk reporting.

Essential Experience

• 7+ years' experience across manual, automation and analytics testing.
• Strong experience in API/integration, data and end-to-end testing.
• Selenium/Java automation, BDD and CI/CD experience.
• Experience with Azure DevOps and/or Jira.
• Data validation, analytics and accessibility testing.
• Experience testing complex applications, workflows, user journeys, data processing and integrations.
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration across QA, development and analytics teams.
• Ability to translate requirements into effective test scenarios and provide evidence-based release recommendations.