Software Tester

NHS; Beaconsfield; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

As the UKs largest specialist provider of diagnostic and healthcare solutions, our Digital team at InHealth continues to grow, to support our expanding range of services. Our Digital team is second to none, and InHealth is proud to be a great place to work. We're looking for a Software Tester to join our dynamic integration and development team on a permanent, full-time basis. You will support the main Patient Administration system based on Microsoft Dynamics Platform as well as other development and automation projects. You will be part of a small team consisting of two developers and a product owner working in line with Agile framework. This role will be critical to ensuring that high quality software releases are delivered, and testing is delivered to the highest technical standards. Ultimately, you will ensure that all released products work seamlessly and effectively and support the clinicians when caring for patients and make healthcare better in line with the company vision. This role is predominantly home based but would require travel to our office in Beaconsfield as required.

Main duties of the job

What you will do: This scope of this role is to support the integration and development teams in testing of all new projective releases and take full ownership of the role including creating relevant process and using appropriate technology and tools and methods. In addition to this, you will:

• Ensure each new feature and release meets production ready standards defined in each Sprint before deployment to the live environment.
• You will be responsible for creating test plans, scripts, use cases and all the collateral as required in line with jointly agreed testing approach.
• Analyse system specification relevant to releases and record test results. Chase bug fixes and perform retesting.
• Provide reporting on the progress of testing and raise and resolve any issues as they arise within the testing workflow.
• Be the focal point for all software testing conducted within the integration and development teams.
• Establish testing process that supports the Agile ways of working within the teams.
• Build a testing toolkit that best supports the workload and the team.

About us

InHealth is the UKs largest specialist provider of diagnostic and healthcare solutions. Our aim is to make healthcare better for patients by working collaboratively with the NHS to deliver a range of high-quality tests, scans, assessments and procedures. In the last year, we have supported more than 5 million people in their healthcare journeys, the majority of these are NHS patients and service users. As a people-focused organisation, our teams are integral in how we deliver our services and our values of Trust, Passion, Care and Fresh Thinking underpin everything we do, influencing the way we interact with patients, customers, and colleagues. Our mission is to provide high-quality services within local communities to over 7 million patients by 2030. We are committed to ensuring that patients receive a positive experience, maintaining a 97% patient satisfaction rate.

About you

• To be successful in this role you will have experience of testing solutions in an Agile environment working alongside development teams and end users.
• You will have used various testing platforms/solutions and an industry standard methodology (i.e. ISTQB) to design, plan and perform testing.
• You will be used to busy environments with backlogs and sprints planned to a rolling 12-month schedule.
• You will ideally have delivered testing for Robotic Process Automation solutions and came across Microsoft Dynamic solutions.
• Relevant experience as a Software Tester or similar role for at least 2-3 years.
• Experience in QA methodology.
• ISTQB Certified Tester would be an advantage.
• BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field preferred.
• Experience with GitHub, Azure DevOps.
• Familiarity of Microsofts CRM, Power Platform preferred.
• Familiarity of UIPath and RPA testing.
• Experience in API testing and Postman tool.
• Experience with Agile frameworks and regression testing.
• Experience with automation testing would be an advantage.

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.