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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: Fixed Term, 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 Analysts to join our highly talented and growing team in the Health & Social Care domain, to collaborate and problem-solve some of the most complex challenges and contribute to the successful release of new and innovative software.
Do you want to play a key role in the development and delivery of software to the Scottish Health and Care sector by liaising and interacting with users?
Do you enjoy collaborating and problem solving with your immediate agile team and extended testing team colleagues?
Do you want to improve our SDLC processes by being an advocate for testing and quality, and sharing your knowledge with team members?
Do you enjoy getting involved early, having access to source code, databases or API’s?
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 be involved throughout the development lifecycle of our products and highlight risks that 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 Analysts offer a broad range of skills and experience, if you can offer some or all of these, we’d love you to apply:
- Ability to evaluate and provide information about the product to allow stakeholders to make informed decisions about key risk areas throughout the product lifecycle
- Ability to understand and document complex business processes to aid in the design and execution of tests that explore and uncover unknown risks
- Substantial experience of exploratory, functional, browser, accessibility, security, usability, and regression testing
- Confidence and experience of exploring SQL dBs and data/reports testing (Power BI)
- Highly effective communicator knowing how to make complex technical information and language simple for diverse internal and external stakeholders (both verbally and in writing)
- An ambition to constantly learn and improve
- Use of strong critical and out of the box thinking, experimenting and investigating systems to support quality assurance activities
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 Analyst role right now. You may be returning from a career break (e.g., 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 practical assessments) will take place on Tuesday 27 and Wednesday 28 August 2024.
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