Senior Test Analyst

Legal & General supports the savings, protection and retirement needs of around 14 million people, through our portfolio of retail and workplace businesses.

Our Retail division helps people enjoy a more colourful retirement, both directly and through their employers, including Lifetime Mortgages, Retirement Interest Only Mortgages and financial advice on our range of lending products.

We are the UK’s number one individual life insurer, and also provide Group Protection products for employers – all helping people to plan for the unexpected. We support home buying through our Mortgage Club – the UK’s largest – and our award-winning Surveying Services team. And our fintech team finds and supports socially useful start-ups and scale-ups working in the workplace, home, insurance and wealth areas.

Joining us means helping create brighter financial futures for all our customers. 

Are you a meticulous and proactive professional with a passion for ensuring high-quality software delivery? Join our dynamic team at Legal and General Retail as a Senior Test Analyst! In this role, you will be at the forefront of our Business Testing processes, applying best practice testing principles to deliver efficient and effective testing solutions. If you thrive in a collaborative environment and are eager to contribute to the success of our projects, we want to hear from you!

What you'll be doing:

• Owning the Test Analysis deliverables throughout the project lifecycle, applying best practice testing principles to ensure cost-effective testing while balancing business risk
• Complying with the agreed test methodology and standards to ensure good governance and record-keeping in line with Legal & General test principles and commercial interests
• Providing input into defining the appropriate test approach in collaboration with the Test Lead / Manager to ensure effective Business Test preparation and execution
• Conducting test reviews (including Static testing) throughout the development lifecycle to identify any artefacts that are not fit for purpose
• Determining the adequate level of Test Coverage in collaboration with the Test Lead / Manager, Business Analysts, and Business Users, and providing input into the testing estimates
• Performing Test Execution, involving leading business resources where required, raising defects on ALM or JIRA, and retesting defect fixes when deployed to the test environments
• Providing effective communication to Test Leads / Managers and Business users by reviewing progress reports, defect status, defining entry criteria to BAT, and making recommendations at exit from BAT
• Ensuring that appropriate prioritizing, planning, and contingency for customer issues are integrated into solution designs to align with L&G’s Consumer Duty Policy

Who we're looking for:

• ISTQB Advanced Test Analyst certification or equivalent experience
• Demonstrable understanding of a variety of test analysis techniques and their implementation
• Knowledge of BDD, TDD, and automation tool sets, and different test processes and methodologies
• Experience of creating and executing test scripts effectively
• Experience using JIRA, and ideally also the XRay plugin
• Strong understanding of the different drivers and needs of customers, distributors, and partners
• An understanding of IT systems, structures, and dependencies

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer: 

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes  
• Generous pension contribution  
• Life assurance   
• Private medical insurance (permanent employees only) 
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday 
• Competitive family leave 
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice 
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online   
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.

We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.

If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.