Senior Development Quality Assurance Tester
Job summary
This post is fixed term/secondment for 21 months due to funding
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivatedSenior 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
- Contribute to planning and executing comprehensive testing strategies to ensure scalable, secure, and interoperable systems meet quality standards.
- Provide technical expertise in quality assurance, test automation and mentor/support colleagues in applying best testing practices.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure testing aligns with technical, clinical, and business requirements.
- Apply agile and user-centred testing practices and collaboration with diverse teams.
- Ensure testing processes comply with data protection, cyber security, and national digital infrastructure standards.
- Support defect management, assist with troubleshooting quality issues, and help ensure systems perform reliably through rigorous testing.
- For further information on Public Health Wales please visit https://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
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
- Bachelor of Science degree, or equivalent experience delivering similar outcomes in an associated professional field.
- Applied knowledge of software testing in Agile teams.
- Professional certification e.g. Professional Scrum Developer, Microsoft certified, Agile/Scrum testing certification, ISTQB Certified Tester - Foundation Level (CTFL)
- Knowledge and experience of APIs, RESTful services and Microservice Architectures.
Experience
- Experience in designing and maintaining automated test frameworks using C#, Selenium and Playwright.
- Experience in designing advanced API test suites in Postman and test strategies when using standards such as FHIR.
- Experience of data validation strategies and collaborating with data engineers to ensure data integrity across systems.
- Familiar with applying cloud-native testing practices and contributing to test strategies for microservices and containerised environments (e.g., Azure, Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience in developing and maintaining QA documentation standards, reviewing and approving test documentation across teams and supporting audits and compliance activities.
- Familiarity in building and enforcing unit test frameworks, refactored tests and ensuring coverage using dynamic analysis tools.
- Experience in collaborating with developers on testability, including mocking Entity Framework and testing Razor/Blazor components.
- Experience in designing, implementing and maintaining automated test pipelines.
- Experience in using cloud-native testing tools to execute scalable, distributed tests and has advised on tool selection and integration into cloud-based QA strategies.
- Knowledge of applying clinical safety standards in QA processes, collaborated with clinical safety officers and contributed to DPIAs and safety case documentation.
- Experience assessing testing efforts, ensuring compliance with WCAG standards and provided guidance on inclusive design and testing practices.
Skills and Attributes
- Capable of leading QA involvement in Agile ceremonies, aligning sprint goals with tools like Azure DevOps Boards, Git and YAML pipelines.
- Ability to influence a team to work within the BDD framework.
- Ability to lead in defect triage meetings and drive root cause analysis.
- Skilled in writing Acceptance & End-To-End Tests in Playwright and Selenium.
- Knowledge of JavaScript Testing Frameworks.
- Skilled in Database Testing Frameworks.
- Skilled in System, Integration and API Testing.
- Skilled in managing test dependencies.
- Skilled in running tests within containerised environments using Docker.
Other
- Ability to speak Welsh
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/