Digital Transformation Test Lead

Job summary

The Test Lead is an integral member of the Digital Operations team, reporting and supporting the Digital Operations Testing and Training Team Lead across a broad range of projects.

The Test Lead is responsible for the design, creation and execution of test scripts which fully cover all functional and non-functional requirements with a system under test. The Test Lead is also responsible for supporting the creation of test plans in line with the overall Test Policy.

Investigates and supports staff on a variety of complex test processes and scripts, presenting information in such a way to ensure senior staff that digital systems have been robustly tested to go live safely.

The post holder will have specialist knowledge of different testing criteria, and be able to select the correct testing mechanisms for the trust to carry out for digital upgrades and new systems.

The post holder will manage testing element of large and complex digital projects.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will need to be able produce specialist testing criteria from complex business requirements and user stories.

Be responsible for both testing directly and leading other specialist and non specialist team members in testing a digital system.

Work directly and communicate effectively with users and stakeholders in order to establish test requirements.

Responsible for writing and maintaining test plans for digital systems

The post holder must have a knowledge of a range of different testing mechanisms such as regression, penetration and functionality testing and ensure the trust undertakes system testing rigorously

Use specialist knowledge on testing to be able to authorise system go live for complex and new digital systems preparing the test policy, strategy and scripts for others to follow.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care