Senior QA Tester

Are you an experienced Tester? Do you want to find new ways to solve problems and achieve big things? Would you love the opportunity to transform products and services that impact some of the most vulnerable citizens? Then get in touch! 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., 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., When giving details in your CV you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below: + Lead criterion: Providing testing leadership and guidance determine the most appropriate strategies to deliver quality solutions in a SaaS environment

• + Effectively managing your own workload proactively and supporting others, leading delivery of testing to high quality and value. + Developing and maintain reusable test collateral such as test cases and data etc. + Acting as an escalation point for defects or issues preventing delivery of Testing activities and facilitating their resolution. + Driving collaboration by aligning teams and activities and highlighting the key dependencies, impacts, risks and priorities around user experience or technical needs. + Leading reviews of test practices and provide guidance on improvements and lessons learned to your team and community.
• An initial sift may be conducted using the lead criterion stated above. Candidates who pass the initial sift will progress to a full sift.
If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact sam.hackett@dwp.gov.uk., If you’re successful at sift stage you will be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams. There, you will be assessed against the experiences listed in the essential criteria. Sift and interview dates to be confirmed. Questions in Advance To help you prepare and settle into the interview you will be sent the experience based questions in advance of the interview, 7 days prior to your interview. These questions should be treated as confidential and should not be shared. The interview panel may ask you other questions which will not be shared in advance, including follow-up questions, and those about your experience. Candidates should be asked further probing questions if their response is deemed to require further information to determine suitability for the role. Candidates are strongly encouraged to secure their interview slot promptly to ensure fairness in preparation time with the questions provided in advance. Interviews will take place from early December 2024. Further information Find out more about Working for DWP For Hints and Tips on completing your application visit Applying for jobs at DWP Digital. A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made. Reserve list candidates will be posted in merit order by location. Reasonable Adjustment At DWP we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce. We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia. If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should: Contact Government Recruitment Service via DigitalRecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs. Complete the “Reasonable Adjustments” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional. For further information on reasonable adjustments, terms and conditions and how we recruit visit the How We Recruit, page The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. 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DWP have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: + Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours. + Generous annual leave – at least 23 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (pro–rata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave. + Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme. + Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly). + Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 year’s continuous service. + Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes. + An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Women’s Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more. Salary Information Pay for this role is from £40,201 to £43,347. Our offer to successful candidates will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated at interview. Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer should maintain their current salary. Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion may move to the bottom of the grade pay scale or 10% increase in salary whichever would be the greater.