Senior QA Analyst (French speaker) | BPCE-SI

Natixis in Portugal is currently seeking a Senior QA Analyst (French Speaker) to join its BPCE SI (BPCE Solutions Informatiques) team, within the IT (Information Technologies) department, to work in a hybrid work model at the Lisbon or Porto office.

Position overview

We are looking for a Senior Manual Tester with at least 8 years of experience to help ensure the quality of our applications. The role focuses exclusively on manual testing and does not include the design, development or execution of automated tests.

Key responsibilities

• Analyse functional requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Define manual test strategies and plans, taking risks and priorities into account.
• Write and maintain test scenarios and test cases, and execute them manually.
• Perform functional, regression, exploratory and end-to-end testing.
• Identify, document and track defects through to resolution.
• Provide clear test reports and contribute to monitoring release quality.
• Work closely with product, business, development and testing teams.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to improving manual testing practices.
• At least 8 years of experience in manual software testing.
• Strong knowledge of testing methods, techniques and phases.
• Experience writing test plans, scenarios and test cases.
• Proficiency with a test and defect management tool, such as Jira, Xray or an equivalent.
• Ability to analyse requirements and communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders.
• Strong attention to detail, rigour, autonomy and analytical skills.
• C1 proficiency in French or higher, both written and spoken.

This position is dedicated exclusively to manual testing.

No test automation activities are expected

the role does not include writing test scripts or setting up or maintaining an automation framework.

We will only consider CVs in English.

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