Development QA Tester
Job summary
This post is fixed term/secondment for 21 months due to funding
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated QA Tester to join our dynamic Digital and Data team at Public Health Wales. You'll play a key role in developing and delivering high-quality digital solutions that support national health services. Working closely with senior technical leads and your team, you'll contribute to designing, building, and maintaining systems that improve digital health services in Wales. It's a great time to join us as we're adopting new technologies and growing our technical professions.
The role sits within the Research, Data and Digital Directorate and contributes directly to the organisation's strategic goals. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams, senior leaders, and external partners to help shape effective, future-ready services across the health system.
If you're passionate about crafting solutions with population-level impact, this is your opportunity to make a real difference.
Main duties of the job
- Assist with planning and executing testing activities to support quality standards for secure and interoperable systems.
- Use testing tools under guidance and contribute to basic test automation, following established best practices.
- Work with team member and stakeholders to ensure testing aligns with technical, clinical, and business requirements.
- Apply agile and user-centred testing practices and collaborating with diverse teams.
- Follow data protection, cyber security, and national standards in all testing activities.
- Assist with defect tracking and troubleshooting, helping maintain system reliability through effective testing.
For further information on Public Health Wales please visithttps://phw.nhs.wales/
About us
We are Public Health Wales - the national public health agency in Wales. Our purpose is 'Working together for a healthier Wales'. We exist to help everyone in Wales live longer, healthier, happier lives. Together with our partners, we work to increase healthy life expectancy, improve health and well-being, and reduce inequalities for everyone in Wales, now and for future generations.
Our teams work to prevent disease, protect health, and provide leadership, specialist services and public health expertise. We are the leading source of public health information, research and innovation in Wales. In a world facing complex health challenges, our work has never been so important.
We are guided by our Values, 'Working together, with trust and respect, to make a difference'. We are committed to building an inclusive workplace that values equality and diversity. We welcome applications which represent the rich diversity of the communities we serve and are supportive of flexible working arrangements, including part time roles and job sharing.
To find out more about working for us and the benefits we offer please visit https://phw.nhs.wales/careers/
For guidance on the application process, please visithttps://phw.nhs.wales/working-for-us/applicant-information-and-guidance/
Job description
Job responsibilities
Join Public Health Wales as a QA Tester and play a pivotal role in transforming how we deliver digital and data services across the organisation.
As a QA Tester, you will help deliver robust digital solutions that support Public Health Wales' goals. Working with product owners, architects, and user researchers, youll ensure systems are user-focused and meet high standards, while contributing to best practices and continuous improvement.
What Youll Do
- Assist with testing activities from concept to deployment, supporting quality and timely delivery.
- Use modern testing tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Playwright, Postman, Azure DevOps, JMeter) to validate and maintain high-quality solutions.
- Participate in test planning and execution, contribute to test automation, and follow high quality assurance standards.
- Follow secure testing practices and comply with DPIA and cyber security requirements.
Work with team members to support collaboration and learn from technical discussions.
Share knowledge and provide support to colleagues, helping promote best practices in testing and team development.
What Youll Bring
- Experience of supporting testing and validation activities to maintain quality in digital solutions.
- Foundational knowledge of quality assurance, basic test automation, and modern testing practices.
- Good communication skills, with the ability to explain testing processes and quality standards to non-specialist audiences.
- A collaborative approach, with a willingness to learn and support team objectives.
- Desirable: Professional certifications (e.g., ISTQB, Agile), experience with test automation tools (e.g., Selenium, Playwright, Postman) and scripting languages.
- A Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
The Job Description and Personal Specification provide full details.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
- Degree in a technical, digital or scientific discipline OR equivalent qualification OR equivalent level of knowledge and skills.
- Foundational knowledge of software testing in Agile teams.
- ISTQB Foundation Level Certification.
- Awareness of accessibility standards and WCAG compliance.
- Knowledge of RESTful APIs and microservices.
- Awareness of clinical safety standards (with support/training).
Experience
- Experience of designing and executing test cases in a structured environment.
- Experience using tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Postman, Azure DevOps.
- Hands-on use of C#, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript for testing and automation.
- Exposure to Agile delivery and DevOps practices.
- Ability to ensure high standards of data quality.
- Experience of Jest for JavaScript Testing or other JavaScript Testing Framework.
- Experience of SQL or other database testing framework.
- Familiarity with cloud-native testing tools and concepts (e.g., Azure, Docker).
- Experience working with or supporting Clinical Safety Officers.
- Exposure to SonarQube, Application Insights or performance profiling tools.
Skills and Attributes
- Ability to trace requirements through to test results and defect closure.
- Strong documentation and analytical skills.
- Ability to organise work and meet tight testing deadlines.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to support integration, regression and user acceptance testing.
- Welsh Language Skills are desirable at levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh, or willing to learn.
Other
- Ability to travel between sites in a timely manner to meet the needs of the service.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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.
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.
Employer details
Employer name
Public Health Wales
Address
2 Capital Quarter
Tyndall Street
Cardiff
CF10 4BZ
Employer's website
https://phw.nhs.wales/