Lead Test Specialist

**Lead Test Specialist**

**Contract Term: 6 Months**

**Contracting Authority: NHSE**

**Location: London, Hybrid working**

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**As a Lead Test Specialist your main responsibilities would be**:

- Planning, co-ordinating and executing test activities of multiple concurrent high-profile, high-risk changes before deployment into Live Service
- Leading the team to prioritise workloads, ensuring all work is delivered in agreed SLAs/deadlines
- Keeping stakeholders aware of the status of projects being managed e.g. timeframes, document requirements, and key operational issues through formal and informal communications
- Liaising with stakeholders to discuss business impact of issues found during test activities
- Using automated and exploratory test case design techniques and tools in an agile development environment
- Planning and contributing to the automation of existing tests, finding innovative ways to address problems found
- Keeping abreast of new developments in software testing methods and industry good practice
- This role is to work within a multi-disciplinary agile devops team with members in other locations, as such good communication is essential to the role

**You’ll have relevant experience in**:

- Specialist knowledge or experience of test and assurance practices, tools and techniques in an agile environment, including effective risk management, design and creation of complex test scenarios based on user stories and acceptance criteria, and the principles of continuous integration through automated test scripts for functional and integration, non-functional and/or data process testing
- Proven knowledge of key concepts of agile development - the agile lifecycle, the mechanics of scrums and sprints, the principles of continuous integration
- Proven knowledge of a number of complex health informatics operating systems, technical (Cloud/hardware) and data architectures, and how they interact in terms of technical and business requirements
- Proven knowledge of tools used for test automation, including bespoke, open source and commercial tools for functional and integration, non[1]functional and/or data process testing, including those that require coding skills in order to build a test framework
- Proven knowledge in back-end and front-end development technologies e.g. Python, Java, Kubernetes and Terraform
- Proven knowledge of working with AWS
- Proven ability to use structured test data and test environment provision to improve and enable functional and integration, non-functional and/or data process testing.
- Knowledge and understanding of data protection laws and technologies, their risks and the techniques employed to test them
- Non-functional testing including Volume and Performance, and Ready for Operations;
- Data process testing including data interface specifications, data management tools and anonymisation techniques
- Proven ability to use structured test data and test environment provision to improve and enable functional and integration, non-functional and/or data process testing

**Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.** ?

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**If you consider yourself to have a disability or if you are a veteran, and you meet the essential criteria for the role, PSR provides a ‘Guaranteed Interview’ scheme whereby you will have the opportunity to discuss this role and your suitability with a member of our PSR Sourcing team.**

***- Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas._