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Flexible Location: Based throughout Scotland, NES is a remote friendly employer supporting office and hybrid working. We’re happy to talk about how you want to work.
Work Pattern: Full Time, 37 hours per week
Fixed-term or Secondment** until 31 March 2026
**For NHS applicants, an NHS secondment will be offered in the first instance. For non-NHS applicants, a fixed-term or secondment would be considered.
You must have eligibility and entitlement to work in the UK which is required to be maintained throughout your period of employment.
Who We Are
NHS Education for Scotland (NES) is the national health board with statutory responsibilities to effect sustainable change through workforce development, education and training across the health and social care system in Scotland, while working at UK level with partner organisations.
NES Technology Service (NTS) has created a strategic programme for the transformation of digital based services to allow NES to become a leading digital organisation in Scottish Health, digital by default and fully aligned with the Scottish Government’s technology strategies.
Our Technology
We are in the business of providing safe, secure and innovative technology products and services that aim to improve outcomes across education, training, workforce, health and care in the public sector in Scotland. Using modern cloud-based technology we deliver sustainable products and services for the future.
The Opportunity
We are looking for two Test Leads to join our highly talented and growing team, to provide exceptional leadership on the testing of our products within the Health & Social Care domain.
Do you enjoy working as part of a highly skilled multi-disciplinary agile team?
Do you enjoy collaborating and problem solving with a wide range of stakeholders, to ensure you are delivering maximum value and continually improving our testing process in line with our changing landscape?
Do you want to play an important role in delivering the Digital Health and Care Strategy for Scotland?
Do you enjoy working at pace and being adaptive to an ever-changing environment?
Working within the Product & Delivery Business Unit (Test Team) you will have the opportunity to shape and lead on the rigorous testing strategy that is essential for NES Technology’s business and this will directly inform the development and delivery of digital services for health and care professionals and the general public.
Does this sound like you?
What We Love to See
Test Leads offer a broad range of skills and experience, if you can offer some or all of these, we’d love you to apply:
- A confident leader with skills including vision, decision-making, motivation, conflict management, resolution and adaptability
- Ability to communicate effectively with other teams and working with them to ensure the successful delivery of our products
- Broad understanding of the key roles within an agile team and experience of developing relationships to work efficiently together to deliver excellence
- Extensive specialist experience in software testing and proven experience of leading the planning, execution, and documentation of testing
- Extracting, Transforming and Load, with the ability to model source to target mapping to identify potential risks and facilitate test idea generation
- Experienced in using SQL
- Extensive experience of structured exploratory testing
- Experience of testing web applications including multi-browser, platform, accessibility, security and usability testing
- Firm understanding of testing web APIs
- High level communication skills including patience and perseverance, preparation, persuasion and emotional intelligence
- Ability to work on own initiative, to organise and prioritise own workload and that of your team, and to meet strict deadlines
- Mentoring, coaching and line management experience
Benefits Which Matter
As a valued employee of NHS Scotland, you can enjoy an extensive range of benefits including:
- Life-work balance - with opportunities for flexible working and hybrid working
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- Annual incremental salary progression (up to the maximum of the salary band) plus annual NHS salary scale review
- Annual Leave - 27 Days increasing in line with service plus 8 days public holiday
- NHS discounts and more
Diversity and Inclusion
Developing a successful national service for Scotland is impossible without ensuring we consider the diverse needs, perspectives and backgrounds of everyone in Scotland in our work.
We are focused on hiring the very best talent available for NES, and actively encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and aim to ensure everyone is treated fairly, with respect and has a positive recruitment experience – regardless of the outcome.
It’s not essential to be in a Test Lead role right now. You may be returning from a career break (eg maternity, paternity, caring for others) or returning after working in another field. Your experiences elsewhere can bring a fresh perspective to our work.
If you are considering applying and feel it would be helpful to discuss this initially, please contact Fiona McLaughlan, Test Manager fiona.mclaughlan@nhs.scot
Next Steps
**NHS candidates will be considered firstly on a secondment basis, and so are strongly encouraged to discuss this with their current NHS employer at the earliest opportunity, ideally prior to application.
Our recruitment process is currently 100% remote and if successful you would initially work remotely, working from our offices as operationally required.
All applicants who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail.
Online interviews (including a presentation and exercises) will take place on Thursday 22 August & Friday 23 August 2024. The presentation and exercise topics will be sent to candidates selected for interview.
For further information please refer to the Job Information Pack below.
Unless otherwise stated the deadline for applications is 23:59 hours on the closing date. Please note, CVs will not be accepted.
If you have any queries regarding the NHS Scotland National Recruitment Portal or the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to contact our recruitment partners, the East Region Recruitment Service, at: EoS.ERRS@nhs.scot