Job summary
- Main area
- 317 IT - Testing
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 317-2024-34-23-DR
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Regent Point
- Town
- 317 Regent Point
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
- Interview date
- 09/09/2024
Employer heading
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Test Analyst
Band 5
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
Role responsibilities will include manual testing of new systems, upgrades and bug fixes. Maintenance of automated scripts and preparing test plans and sign off reports.
- Interview date: 9th September 2024
- 37 hours 30minutes /week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
Main duties of the job
- Requirements analysis.
- Creation of test scripts.
- Creation of test plans and test sign off reports
- Updating existing test scripts in Excel.
- Reporting and management of defects.
- Strong attention to detail with a thorough and robust attitude.
- Able to deal with tight deadlines and regular pressure to deliver releases into a clinical environment.
- Able to work remotely and with minimal supervision.
- Experience of Performance, Stress, Accessibility and/or Usability testing would be beneficial.
- Experience of Test Automation would be beneficial.
- Experience of working within the NHS would be beneficial.
Working for our organisation
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, we have around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- This post will require the post holder to work in the Test team under the direction of the Test Manager to demanding deadlines. The post will assist in improving the quality of systems delivered by IT by assisting the Test Manager with testing of new systems and changes to existing systems
- The purpose of the role is to assist the Test Manager by performing administrative and functional tasks within the test process
- Coordinate test activities between multiple delivery teams, arranging meetings, maintaining and following up action lists, raising defect reports on behalf of other teams where appropriate
- Coordinate small department projects by keeping plans up to date, reporting to project management office, and liaising with other delivery teams to execute tasks
- Complete Test documents including but not limited to test requirements, test entry and exit criteria, test scripts and test reports
- Monitor and track progress of defects ensuring these are kept up to date in regards to schedules and status
- Working with the Test Manager to prepare documentation for Project Gateways.
- Assist Test Manager with system testing activities
- Maintain professional relationships with users and peers to facilitate a productive dialogue relative to the Test Processes
- Create and maintain documentation including keeping track of issues for future analysis
- Update the eRecord regression testing suite as optimisations are tested.
- Perform other duties and undertake special projects as requested by line management.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria
- Educated to at least HND level in an IT related subject or significant experience in an IT Test role
- Possess technical certification or qualifications
Desirable criteria
- HND in an IT related subject
- Certification in RPA
- ISTQB Foundation
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of SDLC
- Knowledge of Test Management
- Experience of IT Systems Development
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience working within IT Test in a large organisation
- Experience of working in the NHS
- Experience of working as a Systems Developer or Project Coordinator
- Good understanding of hardware and software, processes and systems
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to converse fluently, logically and confidently with a wide range of levels of staff; possess good interpersonal and communication skills
- Excellent computer skills including the use of Microsoft Office packages
- Ability to perform as an effective team player, and on own initiative
- Ability to explain the Test Processes to colleagues within the IM&T Directorate
- Must have excellent documentation writing skills to correctly reflect requirements and results within test scripts.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, building effective professional relationships with end users, departmental system administrators and departmental managers
- Effective communication skills, both verbal and written, are essential with the post holder expected to liaise with individuals up to Directorate Manager within the Trust
- Good documentation filing skills
- Ability to coordinate meetings
Desirable criteria
- Excellent customer service skills
- Establish and maintain informal internal or external relationships to gain knowledge that can be adopted and adapted to the improvement the IT department
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Tom Stirling
- Job title
- Test Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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