Lead QA Tester

Department of Work & Pensions
Lead QA Tester: Pay up to £60,781 plus 27.9% employer pension contributions, hybrid home working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. Are you a hands-on Test Lead? Do you like helping other Testers be at their best? Do you want to deliver expert QA Testing services across a variety of projects? Do you want to help us build effective, available, and accessible products and services that are used by millions of people? This is a great opportunity for a Lead QA Tester to lead and execute non-functional testing within our Digital Payment Services team at DWP Digital. We’re looking to you to lead and deliver successful outcomes on our Application Development Work Programme – this includes changes that are critical to initiatives which cut across DWP Digital and which support the build of modern services which reimagine the payments landscape. Payments, payment processing and accounting applications are core to DWP. We are the biggest payer in the UK, serving 22m citizens and making circa £200bn in payments annually. We generate 1/3 of the UK’s BACS traffic. And most importantly we get money out on time and in the form that best works for our users, often when they need it most. The scale of what we do is outstanding, and our purpose is unique. We’d love you to join us. Delivering World-Class Payments As a hands-on Lead QA Tester, you’ll decide and deliver the appropriate depth and breadth of testing for our payment products, using a risk-based approach. And you’ll make sure our test suites are stable, robust, and reliable. Day to day you will: Ensure that best practices are in place, and drive improvements by sharing knowledge and resources across teams. Ensure that usability, accessibility, security, stability, and capacity are embedded in the development of citizen services. Lead and execute non-functional testing, working alongside testers and digital practitioners to deliver consistent solutions and strategies Challenge current processes and help improve ways of working – you’ll identify tooling that will drive innovation and improvement Identify risks and develop plans for mitigation and contingency. Work with key stakeholders and technical decision makers to define strategic vision for products and citizen services. Some of the technologies we currently use: Scripting languages e.g., Shell, Unix MS Windows server and desktop OS LoadRunner RDBMS structures SQL Plus SOAPUI / XML UFT One What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Proven track record of executing and leading functional and non-functional testing specifically; performance, resilience, and security Strong experience in ERP systems such as Oracle e-Business Suite, in particular Payment and Accounting functionality Experience of building manual and automated test solutions, and knowledge of testing tools Ability to identify, design and execute tests and strategies from NFRs and articulate to technical and non-technical stakeholders in a concise and logical way Experience of driving process improvements by research and sharing knowledge with resources across teams Experience of impacting and planning deliverables based on people and capability, reviewing, and managing expectations You can maintain performance levels for you and your team in challenging circumstances Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You’ll join us in your choice of our brilliant digital hubs in either Blackpool, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield We also have all the tools and tech we need to enable our people to work flexibly. We work a hybrid model, so you can expect to be in the office 40% of your time (most people do 2 days a week) and the rest home working. Pay: In return for your skills, we offer competitive pay of up to £60,781. Pension: You’ll be eligible for a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of up to 27%. Annual Leave: You’ll get a generous leave package starting at 26 days and rising the 31, plus all the usual bank holidays, and the option to take extra days off on flexi leave. We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: Flexible working, flexi hours and flexi days Hybrid working: some time in a hub with the team, some time at home Family-friendly policies Time off volunteering and charitable giving Bring your authentic self to work with ‘I Can Be Me in DWP’ Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket Sports and social activities Working in an award-winning environment and culture Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. Click ‘Apply’ for more information and to start an application on Civil Service Jobs