Testing and Assurance Specialist
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 20 Tachwedd 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £44,241 i £48,085 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 03 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Nottingham |
| Cwmni: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 437383/3 |
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Have you led user acceptance testing (UAT) and assurance activities in complex digital environments?
Can you bring your testing expertise, attention to detail, and communication skills to help us deliver reliable, accessible, and user-focused digital services?
If so, we would love to hear from you!
This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the quality and reliability of DVSA’s digital services, ensuring that colleagues across the organisation can access secure, intuitive, and efficient tools when they need them most. You’ll play a key part in testing and validating systems to deliver a seamless experience for users, helping maintain high standards of performance and usability.
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) helps keep Britain moving, safely and sustainably. We do this by helping people through a lifetime of safe and sustainable journeys, helping them keep their vehicles safe to drive, and protecting them from unsafe drivers and vehicles.
We’re working hard to:
- make roads safer
- improve services for our customers
- make road transport greener and healthier
- harness the potential of technology and data
- grow and level up the economy
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
Find out more about what it's like working at DVSA.
The Testing and Assurance Specialist plays a critical role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and user focus of DVSA’s digital services. Working within the User Services Testing and Assurance Team, the postholder will provide both strategic oversight and hands-on delivery of UAT across a diverse range of devices, applications, and operating systems.
As the subject matter expert for testing and assurance, the postholder will embed best practice and standards across DVSA’s digital estate. They will ensure testing activities are effectively planned and executed in alignment with DVSA’s change programmes, avoiding scheduling conflicts and supporting seamless integration with wider transformation initiatives.
This role is central to driving continuous improvement, ensuring testing processes are robust, repeatable, and responsive to evolving user needs and emerging technologies. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with internal teams, delivery partners, and cross-government colleagues to ensure DVSA’s testing and assurance practices align with industry-leading standards and government-wide methodologies.
By providing expert guidance, assurance oversight, and strategic input, the Testing and Assurance Specialist will help DVSA deliver high-quality, accessible, and secure digital services that meet user needs and comply with relevant policies and regulations.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
- Being responsible for ensuring User Services Testing and Assurance team carry out testing activities against the required standards and processes.
- Overseeing the writing, or providing specialist assistance to stakeholders, of test scripts and user stories.
- Ensuring that there is an effective plan to schedule testing in conjunction with the pipeline thereby ensuring that no conflict of timings or resource occurs across DVSA.
- Engaging with key stakeholders to ensure that planning for testing is supported at all times and by all stakeholders.
- Undertaking sign off of all end test reports to confirm that appropriate processes and procedures have been undertaken.
Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.
For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
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