Ddat Lead Quality Assurance and Test

7 months ago

London, United Kingdom Home Office Full time

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

- 325474**Salary**:

- £57,000 - £67,100- National: £57,000 min - £62,700 max. London: £61,000 min - £67,100 max. Suitability for an additional Recruitment and Retention Allowance of up to £9,950.00 will be assessed at interview.**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- HO - Digital Data and Technology - Quality Assurance and Testing**Type of role**:

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

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- London, Manchester. (All QAT roles require flexibility of location, including working from supplier sites and other business locations across the UK and occasionally abroad).About the job

**Job summary**:
Team members have specialised knowledge and a calling to build on it. We want the best people to come to the Home Office and work in the diverse roles and communities they’re passionate about. This is how we produce exceptional outcomes.

The Home Office has created a government-led bespoke career framework that enables career planning, while ensuring our people can be the best they can be. The framework includes Heads of Role, who are industry specialists. They build communities, set standards for what ‘good’ looks like, and ensure we have the right people in the right jobs at the right time.

We also have a profession management unit, which aims to provide the best professional experience to all our technical staff with a real passion for - and focus on - continuous professional development. We invest heavily in our people as part of growing our collective capability.

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

**Job description**:
Quality Assurance and Testing (QAT) is an important part of the Home Office mission. Everyone is responsible for quality, and we have a team of skilled people who make sure quality is delivered in the most effective way. This means getting fast feedback, understanding how a service performs, and helping the development team to make more informed decisions. We value automating as much of the test effort as possible allowing our team of specialists and domain experts to undertake better evaluations.

You can see more here Quality, Assurance and Testing - Home Office Careers

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.

There is a link to how it feels to work in QAT on our GOV.UK site here: Day in the life of a QAT'er

**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 skills**
- 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, incl

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