Release Readiness Assistant

Job Reference: 178965BR

Nottingham Support Office

Permanent

Full-time

**Overview of the role**:

- As customers are changing, so are we: focusing on really understanding our customers’ needs and making the most of our great products and services to optimise the online shopping experience and drive growth.
- Working in the Digital Operations team, you will collaborate with various teams across the business including Category, Supply, Logistics, IT, Store Operations, Marketing, and the CSC.
- **About the opportunity**:
As a Release Readiness Assistant, you will form part of a tight-knit team that plays a crucial role in supporting the Release Readiness Assistant Managers in troubleshooting website issues, testing new functionality and ensuring our website provides the best customer journey across all our platforms.
- You’ll have a passion for getting it right for our customers, a keen eye for detail, and a pragmatic approach.
- Responsible for the testing of the customer-facing digital releases as they move through our test environments onto the live site.
- Completing testing within strict timeframes and to a high standard.
- Taking ownership of raising, tracking, retesting defects, ensuring that the team are updated on progress throughout the process.
- Responsible for the creation of test plans for each release, covering exploratory and functional testing.
- Communicating any impediments to progress in a timely manner to allow the Release Readiness Assistant Managers to prioritise and ensure the correct decisions on resolution are taken.
- Supporting out-of-hours testing for releases on go-live mornings, plus any ad hoc requirements.

**About you**:

- You will have an inquiring mind, be pragmatic, and hold a strong passion for the business.
- Be able to identify patterns and trends and be comfortable asking questions.
- You will be proactive in your approach, taking ownership of your work.
- Work cross-functionally and build strong working relationships with others regardless of their level (e.g. developers, senior managers).
- Enjoy change and working in a dynamic environment, with the confidence to work through the highs and lows.
- Problem-solving, attention to detail, a structured approach, and a desire to improve business processes will be some of your core skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and technically savvy with the ability to learn multiple different systems.

**Benefits**
- Competitive holiday allowance (with the option to buy more days)
- Boots Retirement Savings Plan pension scheme
- Discretionary annual bonus scheme
- Enhanced Maternity / Paternity / Adoption leave pay
- £100 gift card for colleagues expecting/adopting a baby
- Flexible benefits scheme (via salary sacrifice) including financial wellbeing support, gym membership, holiday buying, dental cover, life assurance, restaurant discount cards, activity passes and much more (exclusions may apply, eligible roles only)
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme offering free, independent and confidential counselling and support, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- Generous staff discount (with enhanced discounts for Boots brands, Boot Opticians and Boots Hearingcare)
- Access to corporate third-party discounts, including retail, cinema, holidays and more (UK only)
- Access to the Boots Benevolent Fund, a registered charity that offers support to eligible current and former colleagues in the UK, as well as their immediate relatives, at times of financial hardship.
- Excellent onsite facilities, including; staff shop, opticians, gym, coffee shops, cafeteria, outdoor seating spaces, dry cleaning service and excellent travel links including on campus bus stops

**Hybrid Working**

At Boots we're proud to offer our Support Office team members a hybrid working approach, because how we work is central to our ability to compete, innovate and win together. Our hybrid, flexible approach to work is based upon empowerment, accountability, care and trust and includes a balanced mix of remote and office-based working (our Head Office is based in Nottingham).
- **Why Boots**

Our mission is to help everyone to feel good. This starts internally - with every colleague and every team. In our stores and pharmacies, our warehouses and our Support Office, we work together, putting our customers first and our colleagues at the heart of everything we do. We aim to attract, develop and retain the best people, with a huge range of opportunities for you to continue to grow with usjust bring your passion and commitment and we’ll do the rest.
- Diversity, equity and inclusion is at the centre of everything we do in our business. 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.
- **What’s next**

We do accept speculative and unsolicited CVs submitted to Boots contractors and employees by any means oth