Test Analyst London, England
Job description
The Test Analyst will take a leading role in the testing for any assigned project and associated sub programme. This testing will be done in accordance within a test framework. This role will require contribution to the Systems and Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Regression Testing and Performance Testing activities.
The role also requires hands-on testing application expertise of LGT’s clinical applications to ensure project deadlines and change requirements are met. The Test Analyst will need to work closely with Project Managers, the Test Manager transformation team and clinical and technical stakeholders throughout their working day. The post holder will oversee all phases of the testing life cycle through implementation and into BAU.
The ICT Test Team plays a pivotal role in ensuring that all changes and implementations are rigorously tested to identify and eliminate any software issues, thereby reducing the clinical safety risk. This is a very busy team involved in multiple projects, changes or issue fixes and so you will need to be someone who is proactive, enjoys a challenge and can handle pressure.
LGT is looking for a good team player with attention to detail and excellent analytical and organisational skills who can multi-task and work to tight deadlines to ensure that testing is delivered on time and to a high quality consistently.
Experience in testing Cerner Millenium would be beneficial.
The post holder will be responsible for:
- Performing clinical application and integration testing.
- Delivery to testing programme timelines involving all relevant user testers and third-party staff.
- The set-up of User Acceptance Testing for all programme modules and application releases.
- Ensure that all resources required for testing are available, including people, locations, test environments, and test scripts.
- Work with all members of IT to ensure compliance with robust test plans.
- Coordinate with the Solution Design and Integration and/or Applications Team (including third parties) to ensure robust and detailed interface functional testing.
- Development of test scenarios and scripts with the respective application teams.
- Maintaining a testing tracker/plan and respective documentation, including issue logs and defect lists.
- Contributing to the Test Library: test scripts, test plans, test outcomes, test tracker.
- Working with third parties to ensure that test scenarios and scripts are comprehensive, useful and tracked.
- Knowing when to escalate to senior management for information purposes, ratification or decision-making.
- Interpretation of highly complex data models and workflows to understand the best approaches to testing.
- Making judgements about testing methodologies, and selecting the optimum tools available.
- Making judgements from a range of options on how to design and implement test plans and monitor their progress.
As an organisation, we’ve made significant improvements for patients and staff in the last two and-a-half years. This is reflected in our most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection (from February 2020), which found improvements across the organisation and gave us an improved rating of “Good” in the Well-Led and Effective domains, in addition to the rating of “Good” that we had already achieved in the Caring domain. Our staff culture change programme has been key to the Trust’s improvement journey, as we’ve stabilised our workforce by reducing vacancy rates and improving staff retention. We’ve also significantly increased the representation of minority ethnic leaders across our clinical and corporate teams.
The post holder will:
Ensure all test results and system defects are documented in the appropriate issues repository, to agreed standards, for future reference and tracking outstanding items.
- Provide regular assurance reports on testing to the Test Manager.
- Ensure that there is a detailed log of all testing activities (across technical delivery, application delivery, data conversion and interfaces delivery) to support audit.
- Coordinate application and integrated testing efforts and the relevant staff.
- Knowledge of SDLC and STLC.
- ISTQB Certification.
