IT Application Tester | Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 04 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £28,407 - £34,581 pa |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 May 2024 |
| Location: | Winchester, SO22 5DG |
| Company: | Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6187006/251-CORP7006IMT |
Summary
The post holder will work with the IT Application Operations and Testing Manager to develop and fully participate in system testing activity including documenting workflow & associated test scripts/test reports to support the Development and maintenance of IT systems across the organisation.
The post holder will provide a critical function in IT System lifecycles from assuring developed systems can be transitioned into live service in a safe and controlled manner to system updates, maintenance and decommissioning.
• Support the IT Application Operations and Testing Manager to create test documentation (workflow & scripts) from test strategy ensuring software will meet requirements
• Support the IT Application Operations and Testing Manager to participate in test design review meetings to ensure test design is adequate
• Document test scenarios from test design
• Execute test scripts/scenarios, logging defects by creating test issue reports/logs
• Support the IT Application Operations and Testing Manager to assign test issue severity rating
• Create test summary reports to document status of testing
• Maintain configuration management documentation for test environment
• Support the IT Application Operations and Testing Manager to hold test issue review meetings to ensure test issues are understood
• Manage defects through to closure by retesting when defects are allocated back to system test and closing without supervision
• Provide training to all other areas of the business to disseminate product knowledge
• Contribute to knowledge information systems to ensure known issues/system behaviour is captured and available centrally
• Communicate with external and internal customers where necessary
• Keep updated in all issues/areas of knowledge relevant to the post and upholding professional standards
• The post holder will be expected to cover out of normal office hours’ testing services to support regression test activity to fulfil the needs of the Trust
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
• Support the IT Application Operations and Testing Manager to design and review test strategies, ensuring testable and verifiable system functionality
• Support the IT Application Operations and Testing Manager to create test documentation (workflow & scripts) from test strategy ensuring software will meet requirements
• Support the IT Application Operations and Testing Manager to participate in test design review meetings to ensure test design is adequate
• Document test scenarios from test design
• Support the IT Application Operations and Testing Manager to design and create test data.
• Execute test scripts/scenarios, logging defects by creating test issue reports/logs
• Support the IT Application Operations and Testing Manager to assign test issue severity rating
• Create test summary reports to document status of testing
• Maintain configuration management documentation for test environment
• Support the IT Application Operations and Testing Manager to hold test issue review meetings to ensure test issues are understood
• Manage defects through to closure by retesting when defects are allocated back to system test and closing without supervision
• Provide training to all other areas of the business to disseminate product knowledge
• Contribute to knowledge information systems to ensure known issues/system behaviour is captured and available centrally
• Communicate with external and internal customers where necessary
• Keep updated in all issues/areas of knowledge relevant to the post and upholding professional standards
• The post holder will be expected to cover out of normal office hours’ testing services to support regression test activity to fulfil the needs of the Trust
• Any other duties in line with the salary and scope of the post
This advert closes on Thursday 18 Apr 2024
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