As a Lead QAT Analyst, you will lead the delivery of quality assurance across your project. You will take a user‑centred approach to Quality Assurance and Testing (QAT) and develop and implement QAT approaches to help meet user needs. You will work in collaboration with delivery partners to make sure QAT is embedded by default into the development approach. To help the QAT practise thrive, you will develop expertise in new and emerging tools and approaches and apply these to help the organisation deliver better success.
What will you be doing?
* Taking a user centred approach to implementing team or sprint level quality assurance and testing activities, providing practical, risk‑based solutions including formal test analysis, design and exploratory or experience‑based methods.
* Applying QAT practices to different technical delivery environments and delivery lifecycles including agile teams and continuous release pipelines.
* Working in collaboration with delivery partners in QAT, Home Office Digital and more broadly across the organisation, to ensure that effective and efficient QAT capabilities are developed and integrated into the software development process.
* Driving forward the development of QAT capabilities within the QAT organisation, including continuous professional development and identifying new and emerging industry‑leading technologies.
* Providing technical advice and assurance on the wider application of QAT solutions, influencing the effectiveness and delivery of quality practices throughout the team or sprint level.
Your skills for this role
* Translating complex or programme level QAT/Development strategies into practical, risk‑based quality assurance and testing activities across the delivery lifecycle, ensuring delivery against user needs, technical dependencies and organisational standards.
* Analysing a range of highly complex user needs, business requirements and technical designs at project or service level, identifying or assuring test goals, test case specifications and acceptance criteria.
* Working in a highly technical environment, requiring a broad range of internal and external integration, ensuring the deployment of a broad range of tools and test environment options including open source technologies, automation frameworks and modern platforms and accessibility compliance standards.
* Applying deep knowledge and experience of technical and business domains to a range of complex quality assurance and testing activities.
* Facilitating relationships at senior delivery level, including technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
Benefits
* Exceptional pension: Employer contribution of 28.97%.
* Generous leave: 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 with service), 8 public holidays, and 1 day for the King’s Birthday.
* Flexible working: Options include full-time, part-time, compressed hours, job sharing, and a hybrid model (minimum 60% on-site).
* Learning and development: Access to training, technical accreditations, and funded qualifications (subject to approval).
* Inclusion and recognition: A culture that champions diversity, enhanced parental leave schemes, annual bonuses, and recognition awards.
Please note: This role requires SC clearance. To meet national security vetting requirements, you must typically have been resident in the UK for at least five years.
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