Senior QA Tester

at  Department for Work and Pensions

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We’re looking for an outstanding Senior Tester, who wants to contribute to exciting digital services for the UK Government.
Our work is integral, you will help build and test solutions that enable the Department to deliver quality services consistently that meet the needs of our agents, colleagues and claimants.
You will need excellent attention to detail, a commitment to quality, a belief in the benefits of faster feedback and the ability to make decisions to manage well assured services.
You will collaborate with others, actively seek input from colleagues and value a multi-disciplinary team over hierarchy.
The successful candidate will work within the Technology Services area and the Communication and Collaboration Team to help work on items such as Sensitivity Labels and Cross-Government Collaboration projects DWP is leading on.

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a Senior Tester you will:

• Provide technical and strategic leadership for multiple Testers across product teams.
• Proactively share knowledge, solutions and support our internal communities along with mentoring, coaching, and supporting your peers.
• Drive the identification of tooling and solutions to aid constant improvements, ensuring we build the right product in the right way.
• Lead reviews of test practices and be willing to challenge assumptions and current processes to help us improve. Reusing and evolving our strategies and tools.
• Work alongside other Testers as well as other roles within the teams around you and the wider community to deliver consistent solutions and strategies.
• Drive teams to take a risk based, context driven approach to testing assessing and understanding the risks to drive decisions.
• Understand Agile and Waterfall delivery principles, methodology and approaches.
• Lead the traceability of testing, risks, defects, and report progress to appropriate stakeholders across several teams.
• Identify and drive resolution of defects or issues preventing delivery of Testing activities.
• Maintain full traceability of defects, tests and requirements.

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NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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