Please note the location of this job is Chichester (West Sussex) or working from home

About Direct Life

We combine innovative technology with great people skills to deliver a unique, winning combination of on and offline services for our customers and business partners. Working here, you can directly evolve these further, make a real difference, fulfil ambitions and get a fantastic sense of achievement.

In line with our mantra of ‘Life Made Simple’ our new digital life insurance broker, Money For Them, launched in Feb 2020 offers traditional life insurance policies digitally through a mobile first service. The mission is to make the buying journey associated with life insurance as easy as possible on mobile and to test a range of new associated services. We’ve started with 2 products live, taking inspiration from outside financial services and fast moving consumer goods companies. And it’s no surprise we want to do more and bring lots of ideas into the market.

We are ready to hire more people to help us deliver further experiments.
It’s a 37.5 hour week, with:

Test Analyst

As a test analyst you will be responsible for the design and execution of test strategies along with the maintenance of an automated test suite that supports our customer journeys, delivering high quality solutions to agreed deadlines

Key responsibilities

• Carry out functional/non-functional and user acceptance testing to ensure that high quality standards are achieved at all times for all software releases
• Develop, maintain and run a suite of automated or manual test plans
• Record software defects and work with team members to troubleshoot any problems with systems in production
• Work with cross-functional teams to deliver on a common goal
• Identify and define opportunities for process improvements, measurements for those improvements and the implementation and roll out process to ensure that overall quality standards and customer expectations are met or exceeded

Experience/Skills

• A deep understanding and experience of Agile software development processes
• Experience of Selenium Webdriver and C#
• Previous manual testing experience throughout the full software development life cycle including test planning, scripting, execution and analysis
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to develop relationships with team members and customers
• Outstanding communication skills
• Organisational and time management skills
• Excellent attention to detail and methodical approach to problem solving Strong understanding of available data and data architecture Ability to identify and recognise technical dependencies
• A professional accreditation (such as ISTQB / ISEB) would be an advantage

What we offer

It’s a 37.5 hour week, with:

• Attractive salary
• Smart city centre offices
• Birthday day off
• Perkbox (lots of local discounts and freebies)
• Share of our bonus pot
• Generous holiday entitlement (up to 30 days plus all the bank holidays)
• Life Cover
• Private Medical Insurance
• Pension Scheme
• Eye Care vouchers
• Employee Assistance Programme (24/7 helpline)
• Social and fundraising events

How to apply

In the first instance please provide your CV along with explaining why your experience and ambitions will be a perfect fit for the above.