Job summary
The NHSBSA has a number of IT services that it develops and supports, both digital and classic in nature.As an Automation Test Analyst your role is to provide a specialist manual and quality assurance testing and development and maintenance of automation of testing, with experience, knowledge and associated IT skills (underpinned by theory) to actively design, develop and execute manual and automated tests against new and existing services.
This will include significant skills, knowledge and experience across some or all of the following activities:
o Functional and regression tests o Scalable automation of tests o Performance & Load testing o Accessibility testing o Usability testing o Pen testing o Stress testing o Scenario / Story testing o Unit / Integration testing o Cross Browser testing oCloud deployment platforms and techniques
What do we offer?
- 27 days leave (increasing with length of service) plus 8 bank holidays
- Flexible working (we are happy to discuss options such as compressed hours)
- Flexi time
- Hybrid working model (we are currently working largely remotely)
- Career development
- Active wellbeing and inclusion networks
- Excellent pension
- NHS Car lease scheme
- Access to a wide range of benefits and high street discounts!
Please note that this vacancy may be closed early dependent on volume of applications. As a result, we would encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be an active member of the QA and Test community. They will be required to provide quality assurance to the business that systems and services provided are fit for purpose.
The role requires engagement in testing processes and services to meet business driven change initiatives. Researching, maintaining and applying knowledge of test automation, delivering technical and business test specifications and improving procedures, systems and services required to meet them. Shares knowledge with other staff members to improve, develop and/or maintain testing skills utilising multiple approaches to meet the business needs.
About us
Here at the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA), what we do matters.
We manage the NHS Pension scheme, process prescription payments and much more. Our services are used by NHS organisations, contractors and the public: we take pride in being part of something so meaningful, that touches millions of lives.
Just as we design our services around the needs of our customers, we place our people at the heart of our organisation. That's why when you join us, you'll be empowered and given the right support to help your career grow.
As one of the UK's Best Big Companies to work for, we're all connected to our values: Collaborative, Adventurous, Reliable and Energetic. We care about our people, our purpose, and your progress.
We strive to offer a fantastic colleague experience, where every voice is heard, and every colleague is supported and respected. Wellbeing, diversity and inclusion is at the centre of this, so when you join us, you can connect with our Lived Experience Networks who help us to bring our authentic selves to work.
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and circumstances. We are committed and proud to be a flexible employer and will endeavour to offer a working pattern that suits you wherever possible, whether that be hybrid working, flexible hours, job sharing and more.
Ready to join us on our journey to be a catalyst for better health? Apply today and see where the NHSBSA can take you.
We are people connected to care.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Specialist skills
- Evaluating, analysing, and interpreting information and requirements to inform the design and development of scalable automation testing
- Applying specialist knowledge, to define and create automated functional and regression tests using well structured-maintainable
- Designing, developing and delivering project test plans and test specification based on a variety of documents that outline both functional and non-functional
- Assurance of testing cycles for externally delivered projects, validating and approving documentation, and outputs of testing, escalating issues and risks
- Provide specialist QA and Automation Test advice and guidance, provide defect triage sessions with selected users, and third parties to resolve issues that affect bespoke services, third-party applications and configurable of the shelf products (CoTS) and services, to support swift resolution and delivery.
- Proactively engaging in conversations to support the on-going development and maintenance of your own skills and knowledge, including attending relevant Communities of Practice.
- Communicating complex information effectively across a wide range of people and levels of understanding, including both technical and non-technical audiences, to influence, negotiate and secure value based outcomes and sign of ahead of delivery of
- Regularly horizon scans to keep abreast of new and emerging technologies and standards to support innovative and creative delivery of QA and Test.
Staff
- Support relevant recruitment and selection in line with organisational
- Mentor and coach other team members, and apprentices to enable the on-going personal development and growth of skills within the
- Co-ordinate and allocate work to other team members in line with agreed delivery of services
Financial Management
- Maintain an awareness of financial and personal implications in the use of a range of
- Contribute to and prepare proposals for estimating new and existing pieces of
Relationship Management
- Identifying opportunities and engaging in partnership working with other individuals, groups and agencies within the NHS, DoH and other third parties.
- Effectively engage and collaborate across multiple disciplines to ensure consistent approaches, methods, standards, and patterns are holistically applied
Information Management
- Contributing to, monitoring, maintaining and reporting on agreed testing metrics, reviewing own performance and adapt own approach to maximise the success and to meet agreed standards.
Delivery Management
- Preparing plans to enable the delivery of QA and Test activities for projects and programmes
- Proactively identify challenges that may affect delivery, providing mitigating actions and a decisive
- Creating and delivering tests to ensure the overall needs of the business are
In addition to the above accountabilities, as post holder you are expected to
- Undertake additional duties and responsibilities in line with the purpose of your role and as agreed by your line manager.
- Demonstrate NHSBSA values and core capabilities in all aspects of your work.
- Encourage an environment where your own and colleagues safety and well-being is promoted.
- Contribute to a culture which values diversity and inclusion.
- Follow NHSBSA policies, procedures, and protocols as they apply to your role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Specialist skills
- Evaluating, analysing, and interpreting information and requirements to inform the design and development of scalable automation testing
- Applying specialist knowledge, to define and create automated functional and regression tests using well structured-maintainable
- Designing, developing and delivering project test plans and test specification based on a variety of documents that outline both functional and non-functional
- Assurance of testing cycles for externally delivered projects, validating and approving documentation, and outputs of testing, escalating issues and risks
- Provide specialist QA and Automation Test advice and guidance, provide defect triage sessions with selected users, and third parties to resolve issues that affect bespoke services, third-party applications and configurable of the shelf products (CoTS) and services, to support swift resolution and delivery.
- Proactively engaging in conversations to support the on-going development and maintenance of your own skills and knowledge, including attending relevant Communities of Practice.
- Communicating complex information effectively across a wide range of people and levels of understanding, including both technical and non-technical audiences, to influence, negotiate and secure value based outcomes and sign of ahead of delivery of
- Regularly horizon scans to keep abreast of new and emerging technologies and standards to support innovative and creative delivery of QA and Test.
Staff
- Support relevant recruitment and selection in line with organisational
- Mentor and coach other team members, and apprentices to enable the on-going personal development and growth of skills within the
- Co-ordinate and allocate work to other team members in line with agreed delivery of services
Financial Management
- Maintain an awareness of financial and personal implications in the use of a range of
- Contribute to and prepare proposals for estimating new and existing pieces of
Relationship Management
- Identifying opportunities and engaging in partnership working with other individuals, groups and agencies within the NHS, DoH and other third parties.
- Effectively engage and collaborate across multiple disciplines to ensure consistent approaches, methods, standards, and patterns are holistically applied
Information Management
- Contributing to, monitoring, maintaining and reporting on agreed testing metrics, reviewing own performance and adapt own approach to maximise the success and to meet agreed standards.
Delivery Management
- Preparing plans to enable the delivery of QA and Test activities for projects and programmes
- Proactively identify challenges that may affect delivery, providing mitigating actions and a decisive
- Creating and delivering tests to ensure the overall needs of the business are
In addition to the above accountabilities, as post holder you are expected to
- Undertake additional duties and responsibilities in line with the purpose of your role and as agreed by your line manager.
- Demonstrate NHSBSA values and core capabilities in all aspects of your work.
- Encourage an environment where your own and colleagues safety and well-being is promoted.
- Contribute to a culture which values diversity and inclusion.
- Follow NHSBSA policies, procedures, and protocols as they apply to your role.
Person Specification
Personal Qualities, Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Working collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team setting, both internal and externally.
- Design, development and execution of manual and automated test approaches and frameworks.
- Management of own work and others work to meet deliverables.
- Working within Agile scrum teams; creating and estimating tasks.
- Pro-active approach to self-learning and continuous professional development.
- Specialist knowledge consistent with attainment of degree level qualifications.
- Business change and rationalisation of systems processes and services.
- Analysis of requirements, design and development of applications to meet business needs.
- Analysis, investigation and resolution of complex
- ICT issues, within new and existing services to enable business continuity and resolve major incidents.
- Use of version control systems such as Github/Gitlab, SVN
- Frameworks and approaches to automation within a Continuous Deployment environment.
- Translating requirements into user stories to create deliverable features.
Desirable
- Awareness of digital channel shift and approaches.
- Knowledge of design principles (Object oriented design; common design patterns; responsive web design; security by design; government service design).
- Working knowledge of cloud, Windows and Unix environments.
Experience
Essential
- Software development lifecycle, including where, why and when quality assurance and testing processes fit into the lifecycle of an application or service.
- One or more of the following frameworks: Agile, Java, Ruby, Selenium, HTML/ CSS/ JavaScript, SQL, BDD, TDD
- Communicating complex technical information easily to both technical and non-technical people.
- Mentoring, coaching and sharing best practice with a range of staff.
- Proactive approach to learning and keep abreast of latest technologies to keep skills up to date and adaptable to change.
- Writing and maintaining testing documentation.
- Presenting work to peers, communities and user groups
- Selenium Webdriver or Watir frameworks
- Test tools and principles in: Cross Browser testing, Accessibility testing
Desirable
- Identifying, assessing and managing risk.
- GDS type design principles in action - "coding in the open"
- GDS Digital Standards.
- Use of Browser Stack or Selenium Grid.
- Accessibility Tools (Wave, Tenon & axe)
- Performance Test Tools (JMeter / Gatling)
- Security testing methods (Pen Tests, XSS, SQL injection)
- SQL and its use in one or more DBMS (Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server).
- Spring
- Jasper
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree calibre with relevant in-depth knowledge of the subject matter, OR
- Relevant experience of the subject matter
Desirable
- Qualifications in appropriate IT certification (eg ITIL, TOGAF, Agile, ISTQB etc)
Person Specification
Personal Qualities, Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Working collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team setting, both internal and externally.
- Design, development and execution of manual and automated test approaches and frameworks.
- Management of own work and others work to meet deliverables.
- Working within Agile scrum teams; creating and estimating tasks.
- Pro-active approach to self-learning and continuous professional development.
- Specialist knowledge consistent with attainment of degree level qualifications.
- Business change and rationalisation of systems processes and services.
- Analysis of requirements, design and development of applications to meet business needs.
- Analysis, investigation and resolution of complex
- ICT issues, within new and existing services to enable business continuity and resolve major incidents.
- Use of version control systems such as Github/Gitlab, SVN
- Frameworks and approaches to automation within a Continuous Deployment environment.
- Translating requirements into user stories to create deliverable features.
Desirable
- Awareness of digital channel shift and approaches.
- Knowledge of design principles (Object oriented design; common design patterns; responsive web design; security by design; government service design).
- Working knowledge of cloud, Windows and Unix environments.
Experience
Essential
- Software development lifecycle, including where, why and when quality assurance and testing processes fit into the lifecycle of an application or service.
- One or more of the following frameworks: Agile, Java, Ruby, Selenium, HTML/ CSS/ JavaScript, SQL, BDD, TDD
- Communicating complex technical information easily to both technical and non-technical people.
- Mentoring, coaching and sharing best practice with a range of staff.
- Proactive approach to learning and keep abreast of latest technologies to keep skills up to date and adaptable to change.
- Writing and maintaining testing documentation.
- Presenting work to peers, communities and user groups
- Selenium Webdriver or Watir frameworks
- Test tools and principles in: Cross Browser testing, Accessibility testing
Desirable
- Identifying, assessing and managing risk.
- GDS type design principles in action - "coding in the open"
- GDS Digital Standards.
- Use of Browser Stack or Selenium Grid.
- Accessibility Tools (Wave, Tenon & axe)
- Performance Test Tools (JMeter / Gatling)
- Security testing methods (Pen Tests, XSS, SQL injection)
- SQL and its use in one or more DBMS (Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server).
- Spring
- Jasper
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree calibre with relevant in-depth knowledge of the subject matter, OR
- Relevant experience of the subject matter
Desirable
- Qualifications in appropriate IT certification (eg ITIL, TOGAF, Agile, ISTQB etc)
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
