Role Title: Network Test Specialist Duration: 6 Month contract
Location: Telford, Hybrid 2 days per week onsite
The Preventative Risking (PR) team within RIS is responsible for managing the risking and compliance referral processes for Self-Assessment (SA) registrations. Currently, the system identifies approximately 200,000 fraudulent registrations out of 1 million, resulting in an estimated 51 million to 219 million in lost SA repayment claims for the client (based on 2021/2022 figures).
SAS Enterprise Guide for table creation,
SAS Studio V and SAS RTENG to build the SA registration network,
SAS Viya 3.5 tools for risk assessment of new SA registrations.
The POC leveraged data from 20 different sources, most of which were already housed in the Minerva Oracle database. Previously, some data had to be transferred manually. However, the automated file transfers described in this Solution Design Document (SDD) will now move that data to the SAS platform using approved Enterprise Architecture (EA) integration patterns, with the initial phase, targeted for delivery in April 2026.
This role will form part of a new scrum team within Minerva Platform to develop and deliver the Ingestion and Risking within the SAS Platform including IDP. This role will be instrumental in designing, developing, and maintaining automated test frameworks and pipelines to support the deployment and validation of analytics solutions on the SAS Viya 4 platform.
Working as part of an Agile team participate in ceremonies and contribute to sprint planning, retrospectives, demos and reporting.
Utilise strong Stakeholder Management and communication skills to collaborate with developers, DevOps engineers, and Business Analysts to ensure test coverage aligns with business requirements and technical specifications
Design and implement automation test strategies and plans for SAS Viya 4 applications, for UI based Visual Analytics (VA) and Intelligent Decisioning (ID), as well as for integration testing of data pipelines.
Confirm the test data strategy to be used
Maintain and evolve the test automation suite to support regression, performance, and integration testing.
Troubleshoot and resolve issues in test environments, including SAS Viya containerized deployments (e.g., Contribute to test data management and environment provisioning strategies
Working in a collaborative agile environment
Test automation for data and analytics platforms, ideally including SAS Viya 4.
Scripting skills in Python, Shell, or similar languages and associated frameworks
Data Management and profiling
Familiarity with SAS Viya architecture and components (VA, ID, CAS etc)