Junior Tester
Job summary
The post holder should haveknowledge of Systems Development Testing andtoassistin the development, implementation and testing of Clinical systems and reporting tools to provide high quality clinical and management information to end users throughout the Trust. To provide testing support for enhancements of core hospitals systems.
Main duties of the job
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Assistin the provision of specialist knowledge on system development and testing to a range of end users across the Trust
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Assistin the development and implementation of robust systems for the collection of both clinical and management information to aid the smooth running of services and performance management
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Provide training and support on newly developed systems and work with end users on developing enhancements
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Investigate and develop new methodsofreportingusing the latest programming and analytical methodologies that are available
About us
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
We reserve the right to close the advert early in the event of high levels of interest. Therefore, early applications are encouraged.
Please note that, in line with UKVI regulations, this vacancy does not meet the eligibility criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker Visa route. As a result, we are unable to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this position.
We remain committed to fair and equal recruitment practices and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates who have the right to work in the UK.
Person Specification
Application Completion
- ALL sections of application form FULLY completed
Education Qualifications
- Educated to degree level in IT or equivalent experience/knowledge
- Agile Scrum
- Experience with automation tools such as Jest, selenium, Zephyr, Mocha, cucumber, nUnit or similar
- Educated to degree level in software testing (ISTQB or similar)
Occupational experience and abilities
- Minimum of two years' experience in Software testing and Quality Assurance (QA) role within the NHS or equivalent.
- Practical & theoretical knowledge of IT equipment, MS operating systems and applications.
- Working in an Agile environment
- Automated testing experience e.g. Jest, selenium, Zephyr, Mocha, cucumber, nUnit or similar
- Web development & programming skills to include HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, VB.
- Experience of the NHS or a customer caring environment.
- Experience of development
- Previous experience in IT support role
- Understanding of NHS Digital DCB-0129 - Clinical Safety Management
- Experience of working in the JIRA software
Knowledge & Skills
- Ability to communicate effectively at all levels
- Testing and quality assurance skills including compiling test scripts
- Data analysis and problem-solving skills
- Abilit to work under pressure with tight deadlines.
- Ability to think abstract - to ensure ability to not conform to the norm.
- Demonstrate good interpersonal skills
- Clear and constructive communication skills.
- Attention to detail
- Flexible approach to working practices
- Ability to work within a team and maintain effective working relationships
- Self-motivated and able to use initiative to effectively manage and prioritise a varied workload.
- Previous data input skills.
- Medical terminology
Other Requirements
- Organisational skills
- Logical
- Ability to Prioritise
- Innovative
- Resourceful self-motivated and ability to work unsupervised
- Can act on own initiative and advise junior members of staff
- Customer care attitude to clients
- Professional appearance
- Good time Management
- Able to accommodate flexible working hours and work at different sites
- Required to attend National Conferences/ Exhibitions and Courses where appropriate
- Able to concentrate to identify and resolve queries for users
- Customer focused behaviour
- Full driving licence and access to personal transport
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.
Employer details
Employer name
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Address
Castle Hill Hospital
Castle Road
Cottingham
HU16 5JQ
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.hey.nhs.uk/