Quality Assurance Analyst, AlphaSights
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3-5 days a week in office
Connecting businesses with industry professionals
Open for applications
Connecting businesses with industry professionals
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
On a mission to unlock humanity’s knowledge and power progress for professionals, businesses, and society.
Role
Who you are
- You will need to maintain a positive, problem-solving mindset, and be attracted by the challenge of delivering high quality support in a fast-paced environment
- You must be proactive, creative, and enjoy interacting with other people
- You will always be looking for ways to improve your own work while at the same time being committed to helping the wider team succeed
- You are excited to make the most of on-the-job and classroom-based learning, and the opportunity to dive into the field of IT through exposure to a wide array of different technologies, regions, and challenges
- Have 2 – 4 years of relevant experience in previous QA roles
- Attained a Bachelor’s degree, strong preference for relevant fields (Computer Science, Management Information Systems/Services, Computer Information Systems etc.)
- Experience within an agile environment
- Have solid technical troubleshooting skills & experience
- Experience with Jira, Azure DevOps or another significant bug tracking and project management system
- Experience using a test management tool
Desirable
- Experience testing APIs
- Experience writing code
- Experience with automated testing using Selenium, Cypress, or any other framework
What the job involves
- AlphaSights is looking for a self-driven QA Analyst to join the Software Engineering Team
- Working largely with the teams based in London/Portugal, you will also have the opportunity to work with teams based in other offices across EMEA, US and Asia
- The role of the QA Analyst therefore represents a visible and valued opportunity to have an immediate impact. Working alongside Software Engineering and Product Management, you will focus on supporting the user experience while vetting new and innovative products and features, as well as enhancing existing ones
- Create and manage test plans, test suites, and test cases across multiple projects
- Manually Test a variety of applications, tracking test execution data
- Provide feedback for UI/UX improvements/enhancements
- Create and track bugs/defects throughout the software development lifecycle in Jira
- Troubleshoot and debug user issues with applications
- Collaborate with Development and Product teams to identify parameters, environment configs and edge cases
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Businesses often invest significant time and effort into finding expert knowledge in a process that can be a difficult and arduous. AlphaSights bridges the gap between businesses and industry experts by sourcing people with relevant knowledge so businesses don't have to.
Through use of artificial intelligence, AlphaSights is able to provide an end-to-end service for businesses whilst rigorously complying with company requirements. A central, ever evolving system allows the company to keep on top of the new and most relevant industry professionals in real time to provide tailor-made and effective service.
AlphaSights supports private equity funds, hedge funds, consultancies, Fortune 500 companies and Social Impact & Non Profits.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Career progression
"AlphaSights has 2 instances per year in which employees can be chosen for elevation, as early as with 1 year experience the person can get a..."
Funding (1 round)
Jan 2008
$8.4m
SEED
Total funding: $8.4m
Company benefits
- A team-oriented, strong supportive culture that emphasises professional development and celebrating success
- Professional development opportunities that work to ensure that you’re supported, along with an opportunity for internal upward mobility as our growing team continues to scale
- Comprehensive medical benefits (health, vision, and dental)
- Subsidised lunch programme, corporate gym discounts, monthly team events, free breakfast & snacks
- Holiday allowance, excl. public holidays
Company values
- Results-orientation: Are you energized by results and outcomes?
- Drive: Do you excel beyond what’s asked of you?
- Adaptability: Do you thrive in an ever-changing environment?
- Humility: Do you view yourself as a constant ‘work-in-progress’?
- Empathy: Can you see the world through other’s eyes?
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Max Cartellieri
(Co-CEO)Has been a Consultant at McKinsey & Company and Investment Executive at BC Partners. Co-founder and CEO at Ciao for seven years.
Andrew Heath
(Co-CEO)Previously Associate at the Boston Consulting Group and Managing Director at GoIndustry.
People progressing
After joining AlphaSights back in September 2019 as part of the Lateral Recruitment function, Pip has helped to grow our teams across the business and elevate into the Senior Recruiter role.
After graduating in 2016, Will joined AlphaSights in our Client Services Team. In this time, he has worked on a variety of different projects and recently progressed into a Vice President role.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at AlphaSights
- We believe that investing in DEI is the right thing to do and is vital to driving progress. We go the extra mile to build teams of people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, because diversity of thought drives innovation and knowledge diffusion which creates value for our clients, employees and society
- Diversity. We strive to build diverse teams, so we heavily invest in identifying and attracting top talent with diverse backgrounds and experiences
- Equity. Fair and equal treatment is in our DNA. Our processes, culture and values are designed to ensure everyone is treated equitably and with respect
- Inclusion. Our community is vibrant and we want all employees to have a feeling of belonging at AlphaSights. Through our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) we provide support and community for employees globally
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