Uat Assistant

260181BR

**UAT Assistant**:
Nottingham Support Office

Permanent

Full-time

**Role - UAT Assistant**

**Contract: Permanent**

**Shift pattern: Full time**

**Location - Nottingham Support Office**

**Closing date: 19th September 2025**

**Recruitment Partner: Matthew Nelligan**

**About the role**

The Boots Digital Implementation team are looking for a talented UAT assistant to help improve our online customer experience. This opportunity is a permanent role working 37.5 hours-per-week, 5 days a week at our Nottingham D90 head office

**Key responsibilities**

You will support the Digital Assistant Release Manager by conducting UAT, targeted, exploratory, and regression testing across multiple environments as part of an agile-driven release process. Role responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

- Partnering with teams cross-functionally to understand the elements of each release.
- Raising, tracking, and retesting defects, ensuring the digital implementation team are updated on progress throughout the process.
- Creating and maintaining clear, comprehensive UAT scripts and test scenarios to ensure coverage aligns with business requirements and release goals.
- Communicating any impediments to progress in a timely manner to allow the Digital Assistant Release Manager to prioritise to ensure correct decisions on resolution are taken.
- Supporting out of hours testing for releases on go-live mornings, as well as any ad hoc requirements.

**It would be great if you also have**
- Hold a foundation ISTQB qualification with a strong understanding of the 7 principles of testing, alongside practical experience in various testing areas.
- Have experience creating and maintaining clear, structured UAT scripts and test scenarios to ensure thorough and consistent test coverage.
- Have strong verbal and written communication skills, confidently collaborate across teams, and is proficient in tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
- Embraces change with confidence, work effectively under pressure, and navigate the demands of a dynamic business with tenacity.
- Manage tasks independently, meet tight deadlines, and support regular overnight deployments and occasional weekend work as required.

**Our benefits**
- Boots Retirement Savings Plan
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Generous employee discounts
- Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
- Flexible benefits scheme including option to buy additional holiday, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and much more.
- Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.

We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you - find out more at boots.jobs/rewards. Exclusions may apply, eligible roles only. _Please note, any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate._

**Why Boots**

At Boots, we foster a working environment where consideration and inclusivity help everyone to be themselves and reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all. As the heart of everything we do at Boots, with you, we change for the better.

**What's next**

If selected for interview then Matthew will be in touch with you to dicuss next steps

This role requires you to complete a **Pre-employment check** after receiving an offer. Depending on your location you will be asked to submit either a DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service), PVG (Protection of Vulnerable groups) or an Access NI Check.

Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.

**Closing date**

30-Sep-2025

**Business Area**

Support Office

**Function**

Digital

**Shift pattern**

Full time - weekdays

**Keywords**

UAT testing
Coding
7 principles of Testing
release of new pages
debugging the errors

**Hours per week**

37.5

**Latitude,longitude 1**

52.927182,-1.183948

Weekdays

**Is this a Global Brands req?**

No

**Airport**

No

**Should this appear on the No7 Beauty Company website?**

No

**Company**

Non Stores

**Division**

Non Stores

**Should this vacancy be excluded from being posted onto the Boots.jobs career site?**

No

**Region**

East Midlands

**Area**

East Midlands (non stores)

**Store**

Nottingham Support Office

**Req Posted Date**

03-Sep-2025

**County**

Nottinghamshire

**Country**

UK

**Address 1**

Recruitment Service Centre (D94)

**Address 2**

Thane Road

**Address 3**

Nottingham