Senior QA Tester - Lead Test Strategy for Public Services

DWP Digital; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

DWP Digital in Sheffield is seeking a Senior QA Tester to help modernise digital telephony services for the UK Government. You will lead a team of testers, drive test strategy, and ensure comprehensive, risk-based testing across releases.

Apply your skills in both manual and automated testing, define test requirements, and work with development to resolve issues while guiding stakeholders with clear results and timelines.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to a team of Testers and oversight to the products tested.
• Drive overall Test Process, set test strategy and approach for the project.
• Ensure breadth and depth of testing with risk-based planning.
• Plan system/acceptance tests, coordinating functional and non-functional specs.
• Oversee all levels of functional system testing for successful releases.
• Define test requirements and communicate risks to senior stakeholders.
• Shift-left driven processes to reduce defects early in the lifecycle.
• Produce and execute manual and automated test scripts with expected results.
• Analyse faults with development teams and agree remedial actions.
• Provide estimates for new work on behalf of the test team.

Skills

Technical leadership

Test strategy

Risk-based testing

System/acceptance testing

Functional testing

Non-functional testing

Shift-left

Manual testing

Automated testing

Test scripting

Fault analysis

Stakeholder communication

Job description

DWP Digital in Sheffield is seeking a Senior QA Tester to help modernise digital telephony services for the UK Government. You will lead a team of testers, drive test strategy, and ensure comprehensive, risk-based testing across releases.

Apply your skills in both manual and automated testing, define test requirements, and work with development to resolve issues while guiding stakeholders with clear results and timelines.