Vacancy Information
We have a fantastic opportunity available within our Business Intelligence function for a Test Analyst. If you love data, are methodical and like a challenge then you may be the one we are looking for. We use the latest Azure platform and Power BI stack by manually and automating our tests to assure the quality of our data, testing both the platform and reports for our internal customers.
We can offer you:
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25 days (5 weeks) annual leave, pro-rated, increasing with service (in addition to bank holidays), plus 1 additional floating day
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Management Bonus Scheme which is worth up to 10% of your salary
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Profit share: We want everyone to share in the success of the business, so we distribute 10% of our profits to all our employees who have at least 6-month service, or more, each year
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Private Medical Insurance which is free for you and subsidised for your dependants
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Permanent Health Insurance which is a replacement income scheme
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You will automatically join our Greggs pension scheme which is a fantastic way to save for your retirement and allows you to benefit from employer contributions and tax advantages
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Defined contribution management pension scheme
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Death in service benefit which provides a lump-sum payment equal to 4 times your year’s salary
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Colleague discount, up to 50% off our own-produced products
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Share save schemes that let you buy discounted Greggs shares, by saving a set amount of money over a fixed time, to have an even bigger share of our profits
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Career progression and learning and development
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Employee Assistance Programme; A free, confidential helpline, offering advice and support with financial, relationship, work-related and wellbeing issues, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Including a mobile app providing a range of wellness content on physical, mental, social, and financial wellbeing
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Perks and savings, such as digital gift card discounts, online cashback, in-store and online coupons and lifestyle offers
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Cycle to Work scheme
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A company who cares about our communities; the environment and being a better business! Click here to read about The Greggs Pledge
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Colleague Networks – internal groups where colleagues and their allies can share their own experiences, offer feedback on the way we do things at Greggs, and provide support to one another
About the role
- This is a full-time role, however flexibility in this will be considered
- We know that having a work-life balance is important, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role
- The base location for this role is Innovate House, Balliol Business Park, Newcastle, Ideally, you’ll live within one hour travel of this area
What you'll do
- Reporting to the Test Lead the role will be responsible for testing the Azure data platform pipelines and Power BI Reports created by the Data Platform developers and Power BI Analysts.
- Working in an agile/scrum methodology ensuring the Acceptance Criteria is well understood to support the creation and execution of Test plans and cases.
- Logging and retesting any bugs found along with regression testing for completeness.
- Automating test cases where applicable to support regression testing and CI/CD.
- Collaborating with Greggs stakeholders,
- Data Platform developers\Power BI Analysts to gain full understanding of the requirements to be delivered.
- As part of the scrum team give test estimates for scoping, planning and execution of manual and automated tests
- Participate in walkthroughs of the work items ready to test to ensure the basic acceptance criteria has been met before passing the quality gate into testing.
- Creation and execution of manual test scripts including running full regression tests and sharing results and risks with key stakeholders.
- Maintain traceability between test cases, requirements, defects and test results
- Logging issues within our defect tracking system and ensure collaboration with the team to resolution.
- Supporting UAT when required.
- Supporting the IT Test Lead to ensure the testing programme is in line with strategy and business needs.
- Keeping up to date with new technologies and sharing this information with the wider test team where applicable.
About you
You will fit right into this role if you have:
- Experience with Azure platform pipeline testing is a distinct advantage
- Working knowledge of MS Power BI Reports is a distinct advantage
- An ability to write SQL queries and analyse results
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- An ability to meet challenging targets and deadlines
- Customer focused
- Highly numerate with an ability to analyse, interpret and report on data
- Strong influencing and negotiation skills and able to challenge
- Excellent planning and organisational skills
- Self-motivated and willing to take accountability
- Clearly shows passion and drive
- Are supportive of an inclusive culture – recognising and valuing that difference is good
- Want to develop and are ready to work alongside some great people and have lots of fun on your Greggs journey!
About Greggs
Here at Greggs, we love what we do, and we have fun! What makes Greggs so special is our culture – the way we are, the way we behave and the way we support each other. We're hard-working, but above all else we're family; and it doesn't matter who you are, where you're from or what your favourite bake is, we’d love you to join us! We want everyone to feel welcome at Greggs and our colleagues to be able to be themselves at work, whatever their background, preferences, or views.