Senior QA Tester

Civil Service, City Centre, Manchester

Senior QA Tester

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Civil Service, City Centre, Manchester

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted today, 31 Oct | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: dc39f618d867485a89c57bfd907efb62

Full Job Description

  • 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.

    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.