Senior QA Engineer - Hackajob

Grade B - £39,390 - £47,121 (National Framework) or £44,792 - £52,523 (London Framework – if you are London office based or homebased and live within the boundary of the M25). There is also an additional homeworking allowance of £553 per annum for those working from home.

Contracted Hours: Full time 37 hours per week however compressed or flexible hours may be considered.

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: This role is fully home-based however we can accommodate hybrid and office-based working or talk to us about flexible working.

Closing date: Wednesday 8th May 2024 at 11.59pm

This role is NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

Are you committed to helping us regulate health and social care within England?

When thinking about what drives you every day in your job, what keeps you motivated and passionate about your work what comes to mind? For 3000+ people at the CQC we end each day knowing that we have made a difference to the lives of those most in need in our communities. We make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and encourage care services to improve. We are looking for people who are caring, demonstrate integrity and work well as part of a team to join with us and share in this sense of achievement. If you would like to help us, make a positive impact to health and social care within England, then read on.

Why this could be a great role for you….

Technology is key to the delivery of CQC’s core purpose. Our Technology team does what matters most by providing high quality, customer centric technology solutions and services to CQC colleague, providers and the public through the use of modern, agile and innovative technology.

We’re looking for a n expert in QA Engineering to join us in our developing Tech team. As the successful candidate for this role, yo u will;

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W ork with cutting edge technology and a variety of testing tools

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Have th e freedom to contribute to and propose improvements to our current and future automated testing approach

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B e involved in a multi-disciplinary Software Development process involving DevOps and Software Engineers , in ject ing quality across the board

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H ave access to a range of Microsoft certification and training paths as part of your development and other testing related courses and certification

On top of this, y ou’ll be working with a s et of talented and passionate individuals in the context of Agile teams or on standalone projects , in a supportive environment where your opini ons and ideas are value d.

What we can offer you...

Your health and wellbeing are important to us and are supported through our benefits scheme ;

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27 days’ annual leave, rising with service to 32.5 days, plus 8 Bank Holidays

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NHS pension scheme, with around a 14% employer contribution

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Free employee assistance service 24 hours a day

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Discounts to supermarkets, high street stores, electronics and fleet cars

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Discounted gym vouchers

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Cycle to work scheme

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Internal reward scheme where you could earn yourself a voucher or two!

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Equipment for homeworking

We want to make working for CQC a great experience for everyone, and to role model a diverse and representative culture. To support an inclusive environment where colleagues feel empowered to bring their whole self to work, we support a variety of staff networks, including the Race Equality Network, LGBT+ Equality Network, Carers Equality Network, Disability Equality Network and Gender Equality network.

We want to support you to succeed and be your very best with opportunities for training and development along with the support of experienced managers and mentors.

What you will bring…

You should be educated to degree level or have an equivalent qualification and experience of QA and testing of enterprise software or cloud-based solutions together with experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform.

Accountabilities

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Analyse changes to, or the development of, products and services and plan design in both functional and non-functional environments.

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Run and manage appropriate functional and non-functional tests to ensure that requirements have been fully met.

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Identify the most effective techniques, data sets and tools to use including non-functional testing tools.

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Automate and run tests in a continuous integration environment utilising manual testing by exception.

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Manage communications between projects to control integration and dependencies.

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Communicate defects or trends clearly to Software Engineers, outlining how defects are identified and the possible causes .

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Think innovatively around problems in order to improve not just the code, but also the processes.

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Use knowledge of testing tools and techniques in order to deliver continuous improvement, providing constructive challenge where required .

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Design, or provide assurance for, appropriate risk-based end to-end system integration test models.

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Work as part of multi-disciplinary teams to co-develop products or business change.

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Build trust with people across roles encouraging learning through lessons learned.

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Ensure effective and efficient services are built, meeting user needs and optimising test practices.

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Raise risks with stakeholders in a timely manner and mitigate those risks early to reduce possible cost

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Visualise, articulate, solve complex problems and concepts and make disciplined decisions based on available information.

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Ensure that business solutions align with the vision, mission, objectives , strategy and the business and user needs and identify and recognise viable solution or controls.

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Utilise a range of contemporary technologies including cloud platforms, open source and ‘ aaS ’ services to better enable and enhance the delivery of QA Engineering services.

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Stay abreast of industry developments to make cost effective use of new and emerging tools and technologies.

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Utilise a breadth of knowledge from across the wider technology and digital professions, strengthening the effective delivery of services.

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Relevant professional awareness includes architecture, continuous integration and deployment, coding and scripting languages.

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Engage and collaborate with people across departments and professions and communicate the importance of quality to departments and other stakeholders.

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Provide feedback in a positive and empathetic manner.

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Have the appropriate knowledge , skills and experience to actively promote diversity and equality of opportunity, treat everyone with dignity and respect and avoid unlawful discrimination

Essential Skills and Experience

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Educated to degree-level, professional qualification or equivalent experience

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Experience providing estimates to the required level of accuracy for backlog items.

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Experience facilitating the definition of acceptance criteria and acceptance tests.

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Experience providing visibility to end to end quality of the developed system

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Experience creating and maintaining automated and manual acceptance tests for each developed user story.

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Experience recording accurate outcomes of acceptance tests and regression tests and collaborating with team to answer queries regarding issues identified .

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Experience working as part of multi-skilled, multi-disciplinary Agile teams delivering Web applications.

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Knowledge and experience of Web technologies such as HTML, XML, SSL, Drupal, LAMP stack etc.

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Experience working within a DevOps culture, with continual integration, continual testing and continual deployment of code

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Knowledge and experience of a broad range of testing including but not limited to BDD, TDD, System Testing, Regression Testing and Integration Testing and non functional testing e.g. Load and Stress Testing

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Knowledge and experience of a range of tools such as Selenium, Cucumber, Gerkin, JMeter, Postman, SOAPUI, Protractor, Git.

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Experience of adapting to change, applying engineering principles to new technologies

For an informal discussion or further information on the role, please contact Kehinde Benson, QA Engineering Manager, at Kehinde.Benson@cqc.org.uk

Individual adjustments...

We are committed to being open and transparent around our processes and we endeavour to offer every candidate the opportunity to perform at their best throughout the recruitment process. We seek to support candidates to identify potential challenges and work with them to identify and facilitate reasonable adjustments as appropriate. Should you require assistance and/or would like to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact a member of the team via email: recruitment@cqc.org.uk

CQC is committed to promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where all our people can flourish and reach their full potential. We know diverse teams allow for a more creative and productive environment and therefore encourage applications from everyone regardless of: age, gender/sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability, ethnicity or sexual orientation.

Our Values

Excellence – Meeting our challenge to be a high-performing organisation Caring – Treating everyone with dignity and respect Integrity – Demonstrating our passion for ‘doing the right thing’ Teamwork – Enabling us to be the best we can