Quality Assurance & Test (QAT) - QAT Analyst
| Posting date: | 09 December 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £41,300 to £44,191 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Plus RRA annual allowance between £2,500 - £4,000 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 December 2024 |
| Location: | Croydon |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 381317/1 |
Summary
Home Office Digital, Data and Technology designs, builds and develops services for the rest of the department and for government. Every year our systems support up to 3 million visa applications, checks on 100 million border crossings, up to 8 million passport applications and deliver 140 million police checks on people, vehicles and property.
The Home Office leads on immigration and passports, refugee protection, counter-terrorism, policing, fire services, and crime and drugs policy.
This is an exciting time to be at the Home Office. You’ll have a chance to shape the future and support our mission to deliver exceptional public services that work for everyone.
Our work is guided by these principles:
- We put user needs first.
- We value delivery and outcomes over process.
We work in the open.
Our flexible working policy ensures a healthy work-life balance. We also nurture talent and offer a broad range of learning and development opportunities that will help you flourish in your role.
As a QAT Analyst, you will deliver quality assurance across your programme. You will take a user centred approach to Quality Assurance and Testing (QAT) and develop and implement QAT approaches to help meet user needs. You will work in collaboration with delivery partners to make sure QAT is embedded by default into the development approach. You will actively seek guidance, coaching and support from specialists and domain experts in order to develop your skills. To help the QAT practice thrive, you will develop an understanding of new and emerging tools and approaches.
Working within a programme team, you will have an opportunity to promote quality outcomes and values. You will begin to develop your own analytical and delivery management with a focus on helping the programme team deliver high quality outcomes at pace whilst honing stakeholder engagement and continuous improvement skills.
You will work with business stakeholders, developing an understanding of their needs and translating them into a QAT approach. Within the Home Office Government Digital and Data Profession community, you will share, collaborate and promote the value of QAT.
Key Responsibilities:
- Taking a user centred approach to implementing team or sprint level quality assurance and testing activities, providing practical, risk-based solutions.
- Selecting, deploying and advising on a range of quality assurance and testing approaches and techniques appropriate to specific business problems and requirements including formal test analysis and design and exploratory or experience-based methods.
- Applying QAT practices to different technical delivery environments and delivery lifecycles including agile teams and continuous release pipelines.
- Working in collaboration with delivery partners in QA and DDaT to help ensure effective and efficient QAT capabilities are integrated into the software development process.
- Helping to drive forward the development of QAT capabilities within the QAT organisation, including professional development and increasing your knowledge of new and emerging industry leading technologies.
Other day to day activities may depend on the delivery approach, business area or requirements of the product team.
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