Senior Test Engineer
Moorfields - A global leader in Ophthalmology
We are Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Founded in 1804, Moorfields Eye Hospital is a world-class centre of excellence for eye health services, ophthalmic research, and education.
With more than 2,300 staff we are proud to be supported by one of the most diverse workforces in the NHS. Every year we treat more than 700,000 patients at City Road in central London and at our 22 satellites sites, and, in partnership with the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre we lead one of the most impactful ophthalmic research programmes in the world.
We train many of the leading eye care clinicians in the UK and internationally and have a global reputation for quality and professionalism in ophthalmic care. In addition, we also operate commercial divisions that provide care to private patients in both London and the Middle East.
This is an exciting time to join Moorfields. The pandemic fast-tracked a huge amount of innovation which is changing the way we work and deliver care. Construction is under way on Oriel, our new eye care, research, and education centre being built in Camden.The new centre will be flexible and modern, enabling us to bring together healthcare, eye research and education under one roof for the first time.
If you want to be part delivering world class eye health services and you share our values: excellence, equity, and kindness, then we would love to hear from you!
Job overview
Electronic Patient Records (EPR) represents a major IT project in Moorfield’s excellence delivery programme. EPR will collate and consolidate the management of clinical records to support clinicians and colleagues across the trust in making more effective decisions, improving clinical outcomes and patient experience.
Our vision is to create a digitally enabled organisation that supports the delivery of efficient and effective patient care. We aim to achieve this through easy-to-use systems that provide staff and patients with access to the right information, in the right place, at the right time.To help us to achieve this vision, we are looking for passionate individuals to join our team.
You will be joining Moorfields Eye Hospital at an exciting time as we transform and innovate our QA process, ensuring our solutions are robust, scalable, and secure.
We are seeking a senior test engineer with cloud and automation testing expertise to implement and maintain testing frameworks for our applications and services.Experience in technologies (or similar)
- .NET applications
- PHP Framework; Selenium; Playwright; BDD
- Test automation for cloud-based technology
- Scripting Language e.g. Java; JavaScript; TypeScript; C#
- API Testing
You will be joining a team where your ideas and expertise are valued. You will apply best practices to deliver quality and reliable software services and collaborate with DevOps and operational teams to integrate testing into the CI/CD pipeline.
Main duties of the job
This role is part of the IT Operations, who are responsible for:
- Maintaining our IT services and ensuring they remain operational, performant, supported, fit-for-purpose and meeting the needs of our end users
- As IT subject matter experts, contributing to the design and development of new products and services
- Improving user experience in our systems and processes
- Proactively maintaining our IT service portfolio and reducing technical debt
- Helping to drive clinical innovation through technology
A senior test engineer is involved in test engineering activities at a complex level, and on large-scale projects / service delivery.
At this role level, you will:
- Identify and raise awareness of risks arising from the automation test results.
- Identify new and implement existing test frameworks to improve confidence in testing
- Be proficient in a range of coding languages (you may be an expert in only one)
- Mentor and advise other team members in testing practices
Working for our organisation
At Moorfields, we provide more than just an excellent career and great colleagues to work with. We also offer:
- Salary including High-Cost Area Supplement
- Opportunity to join the NHS Pension Scheme
- Free 24/7 independent counselling service
- Learning and development opportunities
- Easy and quick transport links
- A range of attractive benefits and discounts
- Access to Blue Light Card and other NHS Discount Schemes
- Free Pilates classes
- Full support and training to develop your skills
- Flexible working friendly organisation
And so much more! To see the full range of benefits we offer please see our Moorfields benefits document.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Leadership- Mentor and coach other members of the Testing team
- Operate within a Test Management Framework (example: International Software Testing Qualifications Board – ISTQB)
- Identity process improvement opportunities for test management, estimation, monitoring and control tools and help implement improvement initiatives
- Contribute to the development of quality assurance test standards, policies and procedures
- Contribute to ensuring enterprise architecture is scalable through test assurance
- Contribute to innovation and service improvement through new and emerging technologies (such as AI & Machine Learning) in the quality assurance testing process
- Design and execute a wide range of testing techniques and communicate test results to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Make decisions on the environment for testing, and can coach others
- Identify defects, alert the business to them, and help to prioritise them based on defect severity.
- Design and execute a wide range of non-functional testing techniques.
- Communicate non-functional test results to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Make decisions on running types of non-functional testing.
- Coach and mentor others.
- Identify defects, alert the business to them, and help to prioritise them based on defect severity.
- Demonstrate a good working knowledge of different tools and techniques, and can train others.
- Advise others on testing techniques and frameworks.
- Effectively research, plan and train others within the team.
- Think creatively, ask the right questions and critically evaluate and communicate findings to a larger team.
- Lead investigative work into problems and opportunities in existing processes.
- Drive the collection of information and the creation of recommendations for improvements.
- Absorb large amounts of conflicting information and use it to determine solutions.
- You can own an issue until a new owner has been found, or the problem has been mitigated or resolved.
- Financial management
- Understand how to balance cost versus value – including the safe and efficient use of install, running and maintenance of software
- Consider the impact of user needs
- You know how to analyse current processes, identify and implement opportunities to optimise processes, and contribute to the implementation of proposed solutions.
- You can support specific activities to improve processes.
- You can spot or identify deficiencies.
- You can take inputs and establish coherent frameworks that work.
- Responsible for ensuring that the quality assurance management platform is kept up-to-date with all testing activities across your portfolio of projects.
- Produce relevant reports in a standard format and agreed timeframe.
- Add a commentary that provides an interpretation of the data set.
- Develop and maintain a network of professionals to enable continuous learning and a community which can share, learn, and keep up to date on the quality assurance testing, and broader technology and data landscape
Other Duties:
- Occasional work may be required outside of core business hours to support major projects / programmes
- All other reasonable request
We do not offer visa sponsorship for roles unless clearly stated in our adverts, so please consider this before applying.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria- Degree, or equivalent relevant level of experience
- Relevant quality assurance testing certification, or equivalent experience
- Relevant management / leadership qualification, or equivalent experience to degree level
- Service management qualification or equivalent experience (example: ITIL)
- Delivery management qualification or equivalent experience (Agile, PRINCE2, etc)
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience in the role of a test engineer, or equivalent role and proficiency with one (or more) scripting languages
- Experience of working within a test management framework (ISTQB, etc)
- Experience championing quality to drive successful and improved outcomes
- Experience of supporting the transition of products from Delivery into Live Service – including service transition and assurance activities
- Experience testing a broad variety of products and services using client, server, web, and integration technologies
- Mentoring and coaching others
- Awareness of good financial management practices
- Experience of management products / services in healthcare (NHS)
Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria- Responsible for quality assurance testing activities for assigned projects / services
- Contribute to service improvement and re-design initiatives
- Systematic and methodical approach to problem solving
- Knowledge of one (or more) integrated data interfaces technologies (data in and out) including XML
- Knowledge of software testing in different project delivery environments (Agile, Waterfall, etc) and testing standards
- Good domain knowledge and ability to keep ahead of digital and technology initiatives
- Good communication skills – tailoring your message for audience, providing and receiving highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information, able to communicate technical information in a simple way to stakeholders
- Able to prioritise work
- Meet set targets or metrics
- Autonomous working and can delegate appropriately
- Use quality assurance testing, delivery management, and service management tooling
Personal qualities
Essential criteria- Relentless focus on user needs and experience
- Problem-solving mindset – focusing on improving outcomes
- Seeing the bigger picture - understand how your work and the work of your team supports wider objectives and meets the diverse needs of stakeholders
- Able to work well within a busy environment
Due to the nature of this position, employment is subject to proof of eligibility to work in the UK, completion of a satisfactory DBS disclosure and two references. We do not offer visa sponsorship for roles unless clearly stated in our adverts, so please consider this before applying.
Our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of our organisational culture. As part of our pledge to take positive action in recruitment we encourage applications from under-represented candidates including BAME (Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic) and Disabled candidates as we work towards a representative workforce that is able to provide the quality, the dignity and respect and to deliver above and beyond.
Moorfields is a flexible working friendly organisation, and we are committed to helping our employees achieve a work-life balance that is beneficial for health and wellbeing, motivation levels and job satisfaction. Every employee of the Trust has the right to request to work flexibly.Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
If we receive sufficient applications, we will close this ad prior to the closing date. You are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.
If you would like to discuss any reasonable adjustments before applying or would like an accessible version of any recruitment documents, please contact the recruitment team at [email protected].
https://www.moorfields.nhs.uk/work-for-us