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Testing Analyst
Digital & Information
Swindon, Newport, or Billingham – flexible and remote working options
Band D: £30,283

UK SBS is a public sector shared service centre providing high quality HR, Payroll, Finance, Procurement and IT services and expertise to our partners. We are proud of the part we play in enabling our partners to achieve the best outcomes for the British people and the UK economy.

It’s an exciting time to join UK SBS as we transform our business to be the leading UK public sector business service provider. We aim to become a very different organisation over the next few years as we move to a modern multi-platform, digitally enabled organisation.

Our people are the heart of our success. We are always looking for talented individuals to join our team and play a part in that success that’s why we invest and grow our workforce. In return for your talent and contributions, we offer flexible and family friendly working arrangements, a generous benefits package, an inclusive working environment that values your contribution, and opportunities to develop your skills and career with us.

The Testing team are responsible for providing software testing services for our internal and external clients. We work collaboratively with development, operations, and support teams across our company. We are working towards automating our manual tests as a whole team which would give you the opportunity to learn this exciting new testing field as part of your job.

Our work varies and keeps up with technology such as automation, as well as legislative change to ensure all systems work as expected.

If you have a keen interest in software testing, learning new tools and procedures, and developing your personal and technical skills then we’re the team for you.

You will be responsible for successfully managing a range of testing related duties such as:

• Carrying out functional and non-functional testing on IT Systems for scheduled releases and lead on designated DevOps, agile or waterfall projects. Deliverables include test plans, schedules, test assets and test artefacts
• Collaborating with development teams, business analysts and project managers to ensure appropriate tests are defined and developed to fit with client requirements. Ensure that requirements are understood, including recommendations with regards to test scope, approach, and effort
• Leading on the management of defects through to successful closure, including regular defect reports for a variety of stakeholders

To do this role well you will need:

• Educated to at least GCSE (or equivalent) qualification or proven work experience
• Knowledge of Software Testing practices and principles, and how testing adds value
• An inquisitive mind and ability to investigate, escalate, and resolve issues
• Experience of running test activities in small and medium projects including planning, test execution, reporting, and sign-off
• Strong analytical skills as required for problem solving, with excellent attention to detail

In return for your skills and experience, we can offer you flexible and remote working options for a 37hr week (full time) with start and finish times between 8am – 6pm, or part time hours to suit. Our team usually work from home and come into the office once or twice a week, but we are flexible on this too. If it helps, there is even flexibility on which office you base yourself from - Swindon, Newport, or Billingham.

More information on the role and our benefits can be found here.

For additional information and a confidential discussion please contact our Recruitment Team on [email protected].

We are an inclusive and Disability Confident employer and welcome all applications. To find out more, click here

Closing date for applications is midnight on Tuesday 12th September 2023. Interviews are scheduled for: 25th – 27th September 2023. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of quality applications.

Only online applications are accepted in the form of an up-to-date CV. If you are unable to apply online or do not wish to create an account but would still like to apply for a specific role, please contact our Recruitment Team at [email protected].

UK SBS does not hold a Home Office Sponsor Licence under the UK Immigration System, therefore candidates are required to have eligibility to live and work in the UK prior to applying.

We look forward to hearing from you.

We are UK SBS. We are creating a place where people love to work, a culture where we lead, we change, we deliver and we empower our people to be curious, take action and add value.