Senior Test Analyst bei CIPD

Senior Test Analyst

12 months fixed-term contract

Circa £50,000 + benefits

Full-time (35 hours per week)

Wimbledon (hybrid and flexible working)

The role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Test Analyst to play a key role in a large-scale transformation program aimed at replacing our core platform and its integrations. This involves migrating critical functionality into systems such as Salesforce, MDM, and other internal applications. You’ll be working within a fast-paced Agile environment with multiple parallel workstreams, and you will effectively manage testing activities across squads, collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and ensure comprehensive end-to-end test coverage across complex data pipelines and integrated systems.

What you’ll be doing

• Analysing business and technical requirements to design and execute comprehensive test cases.
• Collaborating closely with project managers, development teams and stakeholders to ensure testing aligns with project timelines and requirements.
• Performing functional, integration, system, regression testing and exploratory testing.
• Collaborating across workstreams to identify dependencies and avoid conflicting implementations.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Validating data integrity across CRM, MDM, databases, and data warehouse layers.
• Performing data comparisons between legacy and target systems.
• Participating in requirements grooming and defecting triage meetings.
• Executing cross-functional end-to-end test scenarios during each project phase.
• Raising, tracking and verifying defects in a timely manner.
• Helping troubleshoot issues.
• Identifying test coverage gaps, environment issues and systemic risks.
• Proactively communicating test progress, risk exposure and quality metrics to program stakeholders.
• Supporting UAT and providing documentation for release sign-offs.
• Conducting post-release/ post-implementation testing.
• Contributing to automation of regression suites using Playwright.

What you’ll need to be successful

• Significant manual testing experience in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong experience in cross-system integration testing.
• Exposure to multi-module systems (e.g., finance, membership, billing).
• Experience with test management tools (e.g., Asana, JIRA).
• Hands on experience with API testing.
• Experience with automation testing using Selenium or Playwright.
• Experience in agile/hybrid environments.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong analytical abilities and attention to detail to identify, analyse and troubleshoot software issues and defects.
• Flexibility to adapt to changing business requirements, priorities and timelines.
• Ability to context-switch across multiple workstreams and maintain visibility on shared objectives.

• Knowledge of data validation or SQL.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., ISTQB, CSTE)
• Exposure to systems involving real-time data dissemination or high-volume processing

About us

We’ve been championing better work and working lives for over 100 years. We help organisations thrive by focusing on their people, supporting our economies and societies. We’re the professional body for HR, L&D, OD and all people professionals - experts in people, work and change. With over 160,000 members globally – and a growing community using our research, insights and learning - we give trusted advice and offer independent thought leadership. And we are a leading voice in the call for good work that creates value for everyone.

There has never been a more interesting or important time to join us. We offer an inclusive and dynamic culture and a wide range of professional development opportunities, as well as excellent benefits such as 28 days’ holiday with an option to buy and sell days, £125 personal development allowance, access to an award winning pension scheme and a commitment to wellbeing including a cashback health scheme. Click here to review the full list of our benefits.

If this role describes you and your career aspirations, click apply. 

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Please note, we reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore, we would urge you to submit an application as soon as possible.