Job description
As part of the Digital, Data and Technology Services (DDaT) team, you will be responsible for driving the testing activities within in a given project/product; ensuring that new and amended systems, configurations, packages, or services, together with any interfaces, perform as specified (including security requirements) and ensure that the risks associated with deployment are adequately understood and documented. Testing includes the process of engineering, using and maintaining test-ware to measure and improve the quality of the software being tested.
You will review requirements and specifications and define test conditions. To design test cases and test scripts and support data mapping back to pre-determined acceptance criteria - recording and reporting on outcomes. Analyse and report test activities and results. Interpret, execute and record test cases in accordance with test plans. Identify and report issues and risks within related product.
To develop an understanding of the role of testing within product/service development, as a tool for design improvement as well as a validation process.
