Quality Assurance Test Analyst

We are looking for a Quality Assurance Test (QAT) Analyst to join us in Cabinet Office Digital, a unit that offers back-office services for the whole of government, in key areas such as HR, Finance, Pensions, and shared services.

As a QAT Analyst, you will play a key role in delivering and improving our Interoperability One Data services. You will join our cross-functional agile delivery team. We are also part of a wider digital community, and have a great Testing Community of Practice.

Our programme is focused on transforming the Civil Service through the delivery of new interoperability services, including our Integration Hub, the Central Employee Identifier, and a newly automated Employee Transfers service.

As a Quality Assurance Tester, you will be accountable for the effective delivery of complex, high risk products and services.

The Quality Assurance Tester role will be based in the PD&I Directorate and initially in the Interoperability OneData Programme team.

Within COD, the Platforms, Data and Interoperability (PD&I) directorate provides first-class platforms and services for over 400,000 civil servants, including recruitment, data analysis, skills and learning solutions.

• enabling the Civil Service to identify skills and learning gaps in order to meet its business needs and helping employees to understand and enhance their skills in order to reach their full potential, by providing easy access to targeted learning and career development opportunities;Staff Transfers / Movers
• improving how civil servants move between roles in the Civil Service by delivering a staff transfer service that is fast, simple, consistent and provides an outstanding user experience and;Central Employee Identifier & Integration Hub
• providing a single unique identifier for every civil servant, connecting data held in different systems and using integration technology to enable data to be shared in a seamless and error-free way.

The Quality Assurance Tester will join an ambitious build team, playing a pivotal role in improving how people and data move around the Civil Service so that we become able to rapidly deploy the right skilled staff where we need them most.

As a Quality Assurance Tester, you’ll work in digital teams to define the technology and data needed to transform government services and processes.

You’ll have a vision for what good government services should look like, communicating this to both business and technology stakeholders, engaging closely with your build team colleagues to realise the vision.

You will ensure your project’s overall technical design conforms to design principles, meeting user needs and acceptance criteria, delivering a quality solution within time and budget.

Using agile methods you will enjoy working collaboratively with departments and multidisciplinary teams. Above all, you are passionate about wanting to make the Civil Service better, driving forward transformational change for the benefit of all.

• Test new and modified functionality to ensure there are no major defects in each release of new products, enhancements or fixes.
• Ensure impact assessments are testable to produce test scripts taking a business and operational view.
• Work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary agile framework alongside business analysts, configuration leads, developers, and users as part of the delivery team.
• Design and execute a wide range of testing techniques and communicate test results to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Create and review documentation ensuring traceability back to source and analyse them for adherence to business objectives and consistency, challenging as appropriate.
• Contribute to building a testing strategy / methodology for our builds.
• Contribute to Change Management
• collaborating with customers and Subject Matter Experts
• who will be helping with testing.
• Use automation test scripts and be willing to upskill yourself or other team members on this where necessary.
• Use Accessibility testing, upskill your knowledge and sharing this with other team members, and work closely with external Accessibility auditors to WCAG2.2 standards to identify accessibility fixes as needed.