Ddat - Quality Assurance & Test (QAt) - Lead QAt

3 days ago

London, United Kingdom Home Office Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 251482**Salary**:

- £59,000 - £64,900-
**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- HO - Digital Data and Technology**Type of role**:

- Information Technology
- Quality**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 2Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Croydon - Lunar House, London - 2 Marsham Street (2MS)About the job

**Job summary**:
The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure. The Home Office has been at the front line of this effort since 1782. As such, we play a fundamental role in maintaining the security and economic prosperity of the UK.

The Home Office leads on immigration and passports, refugee protection, counter-terrorism, policing, fire services, and crime and drugs policy.

This is an exciting time to be at the Home Office. You’ll have a chance to shape the future and support our mission to deliver exceptional public services that work for everyone.

Our work is guided by these principles:

- We put user needs first
- We value delivery and outcomes over process
- We work in the open

Our flexible working policy ensures a healthy work-life balance. We also nurture talent and offer a broad range of learning and development opportunities that will help you flourish in your role.

We work hard to maintain a positive working culture and are committed to helping you fulfil your potential. We value diversity and provide an open, inclusive and supportive environment to help you do your best work.

You can keep up-to-date with our work on the Home Office DDaT blog.

**Job description**:
As a Lead Quality Assurance and Testing (QAT) Delivery Owner, you’ll oversee QAT projects, dealing with risks and issues and forming project stakeholder relationships.

You will work with delivery partners to make sure QAT is embedded by default into the development approach.

Working at project or programme level, you will promote and oversee quality outcomes and values across the organisation.

You will further develop your analytical, delivery management and leadership skills with a focus on helping the project team deliver high quality outcomes at pace whilst honing stakeholder engagement skills.

You will work with business stakeholders, understanding their needs and translating them into a QAT approach. Within the DDaT community, you will lead on sharing and collaborating with others to promote the value of QAT.

**Recruitment and Retention Allowance (RRA)**:
**Location**:
QAT base locations are primarily in Croydon, with a small number of roles in Central London. All QAT roles require flexibility of location, including working from supplier sites and other business locations across the UK and occasionally abroad.

**Person specification**:
Your main day to day responsibilities will be (but not limited to):

- Setting the programme or project level strategy for the initiation, delivery and development of QAT solutions.
- Working in collaboration with other delivery partners in QAT, DDaT and more broadly across the organisation, to ensure that effective and efficient QAT capabilities are developed and fully integrated into the software development process.
- Establishing and maintaining effective commercial partnerships, working with a diverse range of specialist QAT service providers to build multi-disciplined teams.
- Supporting QAT teams throughout the delivery process through the provision of technical guidance and support.
- Assisting in the design, build, deployment and improvement of QAT capabilities (people, process and technology) which support the implementation of QA, Testing and Software Development strategies.

You will also be expected to carry out the following day to day activities:

- Driving forward the development QAT capabilities within the QAT organisation, including continuous professional development and understanding of new and emerging industry leading technologies.

**Essential Criteria**

You’ll have a demonstrable passion for QAT Delivery, with the following skills or strong experience in:

- Defining QAT strategies at programme or project level, aligning to business goals and delivery approach (including within modern continuous integration/release and Agile environments).
- Ensuring critical activities including automation, performance, security, accessibility and acceptance are embedded within the QAT/development approach.
- Translating strategies into practical, risk-based plans, including test and assurance activities across the delivery lifecycle and coordinating technical dependencies, schedules, and cost/resource profiles.
- Working at leadership level, establishing and maintaining programme and project level stakeholder networks and actively engaging other leaders to communicate and agree complex strategies and technical plans.
- Leading a QAT service or team of QAT

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