Job Advert
Agenda for Change Band 6: £33,072 to £40,736 per annum
Full Time: 37.5 hours per week
Fixed Term/Secondment Opportunity to end March 2022 *
*(SLA/Secondment only in the first instance for NHS staff)
Who We Are
NHS Education for Scotland (NES) is an education and training body and a special health board within NHS Scotland, with responsibility of developing and delivering education and training for the healthcare workforce in Scotland.
NHS Education for Scotland is seeking an experienced Test Analyst to join their Delivery team within the Digital Directorate. The Delivery Business Unit aims to maximise NES’s return on its investment in digital products and services by focusing on ensuring we are delivering the right thing, to the right people at the highest quality.
What You Will Do
The postholder will play a key role in the development of products which will transform the way digital services are delivered within NHS Scotland, using cutting edge technologies and techniques.
Key tasks will include but are not restricted to:
- Working closely with developers, product owners and other delivery team members to ensure items of work deliver the value they are supposed to at the desired level of quality.
- To evaluate and provide information about the product to allow stakeholders to make informed decisions.
- Design and execute tests that explore known risks and uncover unknown risks.
- Exploratory, functional, browser, accessibility, regression and usability testing.
- Test automation development.
What You Will Bring
These will include but are not restricted to:
- Critical thinker, able to pose questions that uncover information
- Experience of testing web applications including aspects such as multi-browser, accessibility, regression and usability testing
- Excellent communicator who enjoys working in a collaborative environment
For Secondments
*Applicants who wish to apply on a secondment basis are strongly encouraged to discuss this with their current employer at the earliest opportunity.
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.
We actively encourage applicants from a range of backgrounds, regardless of gender, age, religion, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
https://www.careers.nhs.scot/about/who-we-are/
If you have any queries regarding the application portal or the recruitment process, please contact us at: NES HR Recruitment: recruitment.hr@nes.scot.nhs.uk