Test Engineer: Sponsorship Available

Digital Health and Care Wales

Job Summary

We have an exciting opportunity for aTest Engineer (Level 3) to support the Digital Services for Patients and the Public (DSPP) programme to develop and support the next generation of health and care digital services in Wales, including the NHS Wales App.

The NHS Wales app will be a user-facing solution that will connect patients and the public to Welsh health and care services and be accessible to anyone living in Wales to proactively manage their health and access to trusted information on health, care and wellbeing services.

We’re looking for:

Essential:

  • Hands-on experience in mobile test automation (Android and/or iOS).
  • Proven experience with Appium or similar mobile automation frameworks.
  • Experience writing automated test scripts.
  • Working experience with CI/CD tools.
  • Exposure to agile software development methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).
  • Experience executing tests on real devices and emulators/simulators.

Desirable:

  • Experience with BDD frameworks.
  • Experience testing native, hybrid, and cross-platform mobile applications.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud-based testing platforms.
  • Prior experience integrating test automation into a DevOps pipeline.
  • Experience with performance testing of mobile apps.

 

Main duties of the job

You will take ownership of the implementation of test process, activities and approaches defined to ensure successful delivery, coordination within the agile product team and quality reporting. This includes:

  • Responsible for planning the implementation, and reporting of elements in the QA strategy and test approaches
  • Collaborate with product leads to implement and report on the quality process and status at a work package level
  • Lead and plan the implementation of quality process improvements, testing and assurance activities in the delivery plan
  • Responsible for managing the delivery of test cases, data, scripts and criteria.
  • Develop and maintain relationships with national applications customers, including senior NHS clinicians, managers, and users, providing them with advice, support, and training.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Qualifications

Essential:

  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
  • ISTQB or equivalent software testing certification.
  • Strong understanding of software testing principles and QA methodologies.

Desirable:

  • Certification or formal training in mobile application testing or automation frameworks.

Knowledge

Essential:

  • Solid knowledge of mobile platforms (Android and/or iOS), including UI/UX guidelines.
  • Proficiency in test automation frameworks.
  • Familiarity with version control systems,.
  • Knowledge of test case management and bug tracking tools.

Desirable:

  • Understanding of mobile app architecture and lifecycle.
  • Knowledge of performance monitoring and log analysis tools for mobile apps.
  • Familiarity with accessibility testing for mobile applications.
  • Awareness of security considerations in mobile app testing.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to post-graduate level (or equivalent qualification / experience in an associated professional field)
  • Practical experience, working at this level, across the range of work procedures and practices.
  • Evidence of continuous professional development.

Desirable

  • FEDIP Practitioner, or equivalent recognised Intermediate Professional qualification.
  • Theoretical and specialist knowledge gained with the following certifications (or equivalent):
  • ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Foundation Level
  • ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation level – Mobile Application Testing.

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

  • Aware of principles, methods, techniques and tools for the effective management of the testing process and the execution of tests throughout the lifecycle of development or integration projects.
  • Aware of applying standards, practices, codes, and assessment and certification programmes relevant to the digital industry, and the specific organisation or business domain.
  • Aware of concepts such as Servant-Leaders; ceremonies, Stand-Ups, Sprints and Retrospectives; and the deployment of tools and techniques such as Backlogs and A/B Testing.
  • Aware of understanding and application of different development approaches e.g. iterative/ incremental methodologies (Agile, XP, TDD, SCRUM) or traditional sequential methodologies (Waterfall or V-Model), development and operational staff work collaboratively.

Desirable

  • Aware of a collection of methods, practises, tools and techniques, underpinned by the Agile Manifesto, that enable teams to deliver high value products and services in small, workable, increments.

Skills and Attributes

Essential

  • Attention to detail in applying specific quality standards to all tasks undertaken to ensure that deliverables are accurate and complete.
  • Goal Orientation in maintaining focus on agreed objectives and deliverables.
  • Work collaboratively with others to achieve a common goal.
  • Communicate effectively using the spoken word and in writing, such as reports and via emails.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Closing Date: 20 November 2025

To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.