Key responsibilities and expectations
* In summary, the post holder will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our healthcare and NHS Fleet Solutions systems. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining automated test cases using C# and Playwright.
* Over time, you will understand user journeys and manual test cases and be expected to convert them into automated test cases.
* You will be responsible for setting up the test runs to execute as part of the CI/CD pipeline.
* Your role will involve collaboration with Business Analysts, Test Analysts / Engineers, and Developers to maintain high-quality standards throughout the software development lifecycle.
* You will be expected to mentor / upskill QA Analysts and Junior QA Analysts in terms of the Automation framework and best practice.
* To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
* To lead, inspire and motivate others to high performance by agreeing clear goals and objectives, providing support and guidance and creating opportunities for development.
* To contribute to the develop of a culture of high engagement, where staff are empowered and entrusted to provide the best services and care for patients.
* To promote and facilitate innovation and continuous improvement to deliver better services for service users and patients.
Required experience and skills
* Degree level or equivalent plus additional specialist knowledge acquired through post graduate diploma level or equivalent relevant experience.
* Good level of knowledge around all aspects of QA testing and an understanding of the wider software development lifecycle, underpinned by theory and professional experience.
* Previous experience in a QA role.
* Substantial experience of creating and executing automated test strategies – both UI driven and coded as part of a CI pipeline.
* Substantial experience of creating and executing manual test strategies.
* Experience writing coded tests using C# and the Playwright framework.
* Experience of working in an Agile environment.
* Engaging with project stakeholders.
* Experience testing web-based applications and demonstrates examples of security testing.
* Possesses advanced complex data management / manipulation skills, including detailed working experience of a mainstream development IDE.
* Also advises using advanced and highly-developed technical skills, within an operational IT, technical, or systems management function in a pro-active team-based environment.
* Ability to challenge requirements and collaborate with developers to find solutions.
* Contribute to organisational digital strategy by defining QA automation roadmap aligned with Trust objectives.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
This advert closes on Monday 15 Dec 2025
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