Job vacancy: Solutions Assurance Tester, Arden and GEM Commissioning Support Unit, Leicester

Job summary

Main area: Administrative and Clerical
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 880-6430969-A

Employer: Arden and GEM Commissioning Support Unit
Employer type: NHS
Site: St Johns House
Town: Leicester
Salary: £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 05/08/2024 23:59

Solutions Assurance Tester

NHS AfC: Band 6

Arden & GEM is a leading Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) working across the health and care system in England to provide transformational solutions, business support and clinical services. We work in partnership with other health and care organisations to design, develop and deliver better care for patients that improves health outcomes while making efficient use of resources. Regardless of function, specialism, or location, we are all united in our commitment to improving health and wellbeing for everyone.

Our services are built on a strong foundation of experienced people who build great relationships, a commitment to NHS values and a thorough understanding of our clients and the challenges they face.

Arden & GEM CSU is committed to supporting the redeployment of our at risk employees. In line with our policy, staff at risk may be given preferential consideration to posts that could be considered suitable alternative employment. We reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. We apologise if you experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To act as Solution Assurance Tester for Arden and Greater East Midlands CSU (AGEM
CSU), supporting application specifications and developing the required knowledge to
support an Oracle Database infrastructure.
As a Solution Assurance Tester, you will be expected to:
• Evaluate, analyse, and interpret highly complex information and requirements to
inform the design and development of system deliverables.
• Applying specialist knowledge, to define and create functional tests using well
structured-maintainable code.
• The post holder will be required to maintain constructive relationships with a broad
range of internal and external stakeholders. This includes the CQRS technical
development team, management team, NHSE/I and other key customers.
• As a Solution Assurance Tester, you will be required to attend daily agile
development stand-up meetings, participate in relevant internal and external working
meetings and provide information on testing outcomes and expertise.
• Provide and receive highly complex information and communicate results via test
packs and through sprint demo requirements. In addition, communicate a range of
assurance issues which can be complex and tailor these to the required audience.
• Design, develop and deliver creative and innovative approaches to execute test
plans and test specification based on a variety of documents that outline both
functional and non-functional requirements.
• Contribute to the review and development of an integrated approach to solution
assurance and support the annual CQRS process assurance audit through collation
of evidence.
• Proactively engaging in conversations to support the on-going development and
maintenance of your own skills and knowledge,
• Implementing standards and policies, pro-actively identifying and proposing
improvements or enhancements to meet changing
• Planning work of own and other team members to achieve agreed objectives,
prioritising multiple and sometimes conflicting deliverables, escalating as appropriate,
any issues which may impact deadlines
• Analyse user stories and/use cases/requirements for validity and feasibility
collaborating closely with other team members and departments
• Execute all levels of testing (System, Integration, and Regression) and develop
automation/test scripts when needed
• Detect and track software defects and inconsistencies and provide timely solutions.
Apply quality engineering principals throughout the Agile product lifecycle
• Create logs to document testing phases and defects reporting bugs and errors to
development teams. Help troubleshoot issues
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• Design and implement test plans to highly complex requirements provided by NHSE/I
and primary care specifications and lead all testing requirements within the CQRS
system.
• Contribute to the development of solution assurance strategies and the development
and implementation of improvement programmes in accordance with the CSU
• Supporting the Senior Assurance Tester monitor CCN commercials to ensure
budgetary compliance and opportunities for efficiencies within the assurance
process. Attend impact assessment planning meetings to support the management
of resource costs and budget for the testing team.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

Educated to Degree or equivalent level in a computing, engineering, analysis or related subject or equivalent experience
Experience of working on large scale, complex, tight deadline projects.
Substantial experience of working as a Software Tester
Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
Experience in an Agile methodology

Desirable criteria

ISTQB
Experience of working with the NHS

Please submit your application form without delay to avoid disappointment; we will close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

Please check the email account (including your junk mail) that you supplied as part of your application on a regular basis following the closing date and throughout the recruitment process, as this is how we will communicate with you.

All new entrants to the CSU for a permanent position will be subject to a 6 month probationary period. For new entrants appointed on a fixed-term basis, the probationary period is between 1 and 6 months.