Job summary
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.
Main duties of the job
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.
About us
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley. With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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 Essential
- Knowledge of SDLC and STLC.
- ISTQB Certification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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 Essential
- Knowledge of SDLC and STLC.
- ISTQB Certification.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Degree or equivalent experience in Software Testing.
- ISEB/ISTQB Certification or relevant experience in Testing.
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- A creative and innovative self-starter with a thirst for knowledge
- Able to take responsibility for the Testing throughout the project lifecycle.
- Ability to converse fluently, logically and confidently with a wide range of levels of staff; possess good interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong analytical capability to assimilate and interpret complex requirements from a variety of sources and identify the necessary resources to satisfy them..
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills to develop good working relationships in overcoming barriers for the need to do formal Testing of updates to existing systems or for the introduction of new systems.
- Work with Trust users and third-party suppliers to ensure the product meets agreed requirements.
- Able to work under pressure to ensure that Testing is executed as agreed, and where delays are incurred, Quality Assurance is not compromised.
Desirable
- Experience with automated testing tools
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of Cerner Millennium and/or EPR systems.
- Advanced computer skills, including Microsoft Office suite.
- Ensures change control processes are in place and executed.
- Knowledge of system configuration and ability to perform impact analysis.
- Knowledge of interfaced systems and how to test such systems in a controlled environment.
- Knowledge of testing processes and governance.
- Knowledge of Clinical and Clinical Administrative procedures and processes.
Desirable
- Knowledge of automated Testing software
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Degree or equivalent experience in Software Testing.
- ISEB/ISTQB Certification or relevant experience in Testing.
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- A creative and innovative self-starter with a thirst for knowledge
- Able to take responsibility for the Testing throughout the project lifecycle.
- Ability to converse fluently, logically and confidently with a wide range of levels of staff; possess good interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong analytical capability to assimilate and interpret complex requirements from a variety of sources and identify the necessary resources to satisfy them..
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills to develop good working relationships in overcoming barriers for the need to do formal Testing of updates to existing systems or for the introduction of new systems.
- Work with Trust users and third-party suppliers to ensure the product meets agreed requirements.
- Able to work under pressure to ensure that Testing is executed as agreed, and where delays are incurred, Quality Assurance is not compromised.
Desirable
- Experience with automated testing tools
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of Cerner Millennium and/or EPR systems.
- Advanced computer skills, including Microsoft Office suite.
- Ensures change control processes are in place and executed.
- Knowledge of system configuration and ability to perform impact analysis.
- Knowledge of interfaced systems and how to test such systems in a controlled environment.
- Knowledge of testing processes and governance.
- Knowledge of Clinical and Clinical Administrative procedures and processes.
Desirable
- Knowledge of automated Testing software
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
