Senior Technical Tester

NICE – The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence; Manchester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Flexible working

Blue Light Card discounts

27 days annual leave

Inclusive staff networks

Tailored development

Job summary

NICE – The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is seeking a Senior Technical Tester in Manchester to design, build, and improve NHS digital services. You will work with designers, front-end and back-end developers in an Agile team, focusing on accessible, high-quality and performant applications used by millions.

Interviews will be held in person at our Manchester office. The role may not be eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship; closing date is 23 November 2026.

Qualifications

• Proven experience testing complex software systems, including REST APIs and databases.
• Experience in multi-disciplinary Agile delivery teams across the software development lifecycle.
• Proven experience planning, executing and managing accessibility testing of web applications against WCAG 2.2 AA standards.

Responsibilities

• Test quality and security of built applications.
• Collaborate within an Agile, multidisciplinary delivery team.
• Ensure accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2 AA) and align with NICE and GDS best practices.
• Support live services and help identify and resolve technical issues.
• Work with Engineering to deploy high-quality applications with minimal issues.
• Create deployment packages and validate success on live environments.
• Maintain communication with Agile, DevOps and Delivery teams, escalating risks as needed.
• Produce management reporting and attend Team meetings and ceremonies.
• Document performance of NICE systems and support transition/development planning.

Skills

REST APIs testing

Agile team collaboration

Data integrity verification

End-to-end testing

Test planning

Tools

Playwright

WebdriverIO

Cypress

Postman

Job description

NICE – The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Senior Technical Tester

The closing date is 23 November 2026

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is looking for a Senior Technical Tester to help design, build and improve the digital services that support the NHS and wider health and care system.

You will be a key contributor within an agile, multidisciplinary engineering team, developing accessible, high-quality and performant applications used by millions of users. You will work closely with designers, front-end and back-end developers, contributing to technical decisions and supporting the quality assurance of NICE's digital services.

Interviews will take place in-person, in our Manchester office, and will include technical test as part of the interview process.

Please note that this role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route, please refer to the Direct Gov website for more information with regards to eligibility.

We reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications so please don't delay your submission.

Main duties of the job

• Ensure testing the quality and security of built applications.
• Work collaboratively as part of an Agile, multidisciplinary delivery team .
• Ensuring services meet accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2 AA) and follow NICE and GDS best practice.
• Supporting live services and helping identify and resolve technical issues.
• Working with the wider Engineering Team to ensure applications are built and deployed to a high standard with minimal issues.
• Create packages for deployment, Deploy and validate the success on the live environment.
• Maintain regular communication with the Agile, Development and Webops teams, escalating risks and issues as appropriate
• Ensure technical incidents for the live operational environment are communicated to the team effectively and in a timely manner.
• Produce and maintain appropriate management reporting documentation as required.
• Attend and contribute actively to Team meetings and agile ceremonies.
• Maintain documentation of the performance of NICE systems including Management Information reports as required.
• Support and contribute to the Transition/Development planning activity as required.

About us

We are passionate and proud of the work we do and the impact we make.NICE offer:

Generous NHS PensionSecure your future with one of the most rewarding pension schemes in the UK.

Flexible workingEnjoy a healthy work-life balance with options like remote working, compressed hours and flexible start/finish times.

Exclusive discountsSave on shopping, dining and more with a Blue Light Card.

Time to rechargeStart with 27 days' annual leave plus bank holidays.

Inclusive staff networksJoin supportive communities like Women in NICE, Race Equality Network, Disability Advocacy and NICE and Proud - we celebrate diversity.

Tailored developmentGrow your career with personalised learning and development opportunities.

Job responsibilities

To be considered for this role, you should be able to particularly demonstrate the person specification criteria in the job advert in your application. However, applicants should be able to demonstrate all essential criteria through the entirety of the recruitment process to be considered for the job. Please see job description attached for full list of responsibilities.

Person Specification

Experience

• Proven experience testing complex software systems, including REST APIs, databases and integrations. Ability to validate data integrity, error handling, system interactions and end-to-end business processes using appropriate technical testing approaches.

Experience

• Proven and demonstrated experience working as part of a multi-disciplinary agile delivery team, through all phases of the software development lifecycle.

Experience

• Proven experience planning, executing and managing accessibility testing of web applications against Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 Level AA standards

Experience

Skills/Knowledge

• Demonstrable experience designing, developing and maintaining automated tests using tools such as Playwright, WebdriverIO, Cypress, Postman or equivalent.

Skills/Knowledge

• Proven experience defining and implementing test approaches for complex software projects. Ability to analyse requirements, identify risks, design effective test coverage, apply appropriate test techniques and balance manual, exploratory and automated testing.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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