Home Office Careers – Senior Quality Assurance and Test Analyst

Overview

Position Title: Senior Quality Assurance and Test Analyst

Company: UK Home Office

Location: Manchester, UK

Job Description

As a Senior QAT Analyst, you will deliver quality assurance across your project or at sprint level. You will take a user centred approach to Quality Assurance and Testing (QAT) and develop and implement QAT approaches to help meet user needs. You will work in collaboration with delivery partners to make sure QAT is embedded by default into the development approach. To help the QAT practice thrive, you will develop knowledge of new and emerging tools and approaches and apply these to help the organisation deliver better success.

Working within a programme team, you will have an opportunity to promote quality outcomes and values. You will further develop your own analytical and delivery management with a focus on helping the programme team deliver high quality outcomes at pace whilst honing stakeholder engagement and continuous improvement skills.

You will work with business stakeholders, developing an understanding of their needs and translating them into a QAT approach. As part of the DDaT community, you will share, collaborate and promote the value of QAT.

Responsibilities:

• Taking a user centred approach to implementing team or sprint level quality assurance and testing activities, providing practical, risk-based solutions including formal test analysis, design and exploratory or experience-based methods.
• Applying QAT practices to different technical delivery environments and delivery lifecycles including agile teams and continuous release pipelines.
• Working in collaboration with delivery partners in QAT, DDaT and more broadly across the organisation, to ensure that effective and efficient QAT capabilities are developed and integrated into the software development process.
• Driving forward the development of QAT capabilities within the QAT organisation, including continuous professional development and identifying new and emerging industry leading technologies.
• Providing technical advice and assurance on the wider application of QAT solutions, influencing the effectiveness and delivery of quality practices throughout the team or sprint level.

Requirements:

• Translating QAT and development strategies into practical, risk-based quality assurance and testing activities across the delivery lifecycle, ensuring alignment to user needs, technical dependencies and organisational standards.
• Working in a technical environment, requiring a broad range of internal and external integration, ensuring the deployment of a broad range of tools and test environment options including open source technologies, automation frameworks and modern platforms.
• Developing yourself and the wider team through a range of activities that achieve current business goals, help to meet future challenges and build a capacity for change.
• Analysing a range of complex user needs, business requirements and technical designs at project or service level, identifying or assuring test goals, test case specifications and acceptance criteria.
• Establishing and maintaining relationships with multiple delivery partners including technical and non-technical stakeholders, communicating the goals and progress of quality assurance and testing activities as an embedded member of the delivery team or across a specialist area of delivery.
• Applying knowledge and experience of a specific technical or business domain to enable the delivery of quality assurance and testing.