Senior Quality Assurance & Test (QAT) Analyst
| Posting date: | 25 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £44,720 to £52,130 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Recruitment Retention Allowance (RRA): Up to £7,300 is available for candidates who demonstrate exceptional skills and experience evidenced at interview stage. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 August 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 418526/2 |
Summary
The Quality Assurance and Test (QAT) function in the Home Office is one of the largest in the industry, involving circa 850+ specialists. We use new technology, platforms and ways of working to help development teams meet user needs and make the delivery of services even better. Joining our team will mean you are well positioned to help shape the future, providing a balanced and data-driven approach to Quality Assurance to best support the effective delivery of Home Office goals
As a Senior QAT Analyst, you will deliver quality assurance across your project or at sprint level. 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. To help the QAT practice thrive, you will develop knowledge of new and emerging tools and approaches and apply these to help the organisation deliver better success.
Working within a programme team, you will have an opportunity to promote quality outcomes and values. You will further 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. As part of the DDaT community, you will share, collaborate and promote the value of QAT.
Your tasks and responsibilities will include (but not limited to):
- Taking a user centred approach to implementing team or sprint level quality assurance and testing activities, providing practical, risk-based solutions including formal test analysis, 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 QAT, DDaT and more broadly across the organisation, to ensure that effective and efficient QAT capabilities are developed and integrated into the software development process.
- Driving forward the development of QAT capabilities within the QAT organisation, including continuous professional development and identifying new and emerging industry leading technologies.
- Providing technical advice and assurance on the wider application of QAT solutions, influencing the effectiveness and delivery of quality practices throughout the team or sprint level.
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