Software Testing Engineer: Sponsorship Available

Job Summary

Under the management of the EPR Test & Release Manager, the post holder will coordinate and manage testing across the D&I department.

The post holder will focus on ensuring the quality and safety of clinical systems within the Trusts digital environment becoming well-versed in their intricacies to facilitate the creation of robust test artifacts. Collaboration across departments and organizational stakeholders will be crucial, involving the creation, maintenance, and implementation of manual and automation test suites, test plans, and cases.

The role also involves championing quality and patient safety by providing specialized advice to internal staff, stakeholders, and external suppliers when required. The post holder will contribute to the development of future testing strategies, follow standards and policies, and stay abreast of recent technologies to enhance the overall quality of the software delivered by the D&I department.

Main duties of the job

The primary responsibilities for the post holder include the development and management of both manual and automated testing suites. Effective coordination with business analysts, clinical stakeholders, and technical leads is essential to ensure an accurate reflection of user needs in test scripts.

The post holder will also collaborate externally with agencies, clinical users, and trust staff to support the development of the D&I Software Testing service. Planning and managing workload according to agile methodologies, the post holder must navigate interruptions and adjust priorities as necessary. In addition to resolving software defects and queries, the role involves adhering to standards and policies, supporting change control mechanisms, and suggesting changes in policy or service design.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Create, maintain, and implement manual and automation test suites, test plans and test cases and help with the coordination of testing across departmental and organisational stakeholders.
• Champion quality and patient safety by supplying specialist advice to staff, stakeholders, and external suppliers to ensure clinical systems are delivered in safe manner which minimises clinical risk.
• Manage and drive the adoption of recognized best practice and policy and contribute to the ongoing improvement of methodologies to ensure that the software we deliver is of the highest quality.
• Work with business analysts, stakeholders, and technical leads to ensure tests scripts accurately reflect user needs.
• Develop automated testing suites, using selenium or similar technologies.
• Follow standards and policies in respect of the software development and testing lifecycles, you will be expected to support change control mechanisms and audit requirements. The post holder will also be expected to suggest changes in policy or service design, both within their immediate team and across the D&I department, which values everyones contribution to an effective and modern service.
• The post holder will also work with sensitive, sometimes patient identifiable, data whilst developing or supporting information systems.
• Upgrades and maintenance sometimes require working outside of normal working hours.
• Supply product support requiring strong analytical skills to investigate, find and resolve software defects and queries. Problems can arise in multiple areas, such as end user devices, networks, databases, and servers, so familiarity with these is essential. At times, the post holder may need to take responsibility for independent decisions related to resolution of time critical issues.