Senior Test Engineer

We're proud of our team and recognise the significant contributions they make to patients here in the UK and globally. When you join Moorfields Eye Hospital you can help us continue to deliver excellence and equity in patient care through kindness and compassion for all.

Main area IT Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (Project Role) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (per annum pro rata inclusive of HCAS) Job ref 273-EPR-

Site Moorfields Eye Hospital NHs Foundation Trust Town London Salary £44,806 - £53,134 per annum pro rata inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 19/06/:59

YOU MAKE US MORE

Join Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At Moorfields, people's sight matters-and so do the people who make it possible.

For over 200 years, Moorfields has been at the forefront of ophthalmic care, research, and education. With more than 2,300 dedicated team members and over 700,000 patients seen annually across our City Road site and 22 networked sites, we are proud to be a global centre of excellence.

We're also a vibrant community where kindness, equity and excellence shape every aspect of our work. Whether it's pioneering research through our partnership with UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre or training the next generation of global eye care leaders, we're united by one mission-delivering world-class eye health, sustainably and at scale.

Construction is well underway on our groundbreaking new centre in Camden, a joint initiative between Moorfields Eye Hospital, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Charity This modern, flexible facility will bring together eye care, research, and education under one roof-enabling transformative innovation and collaboration like never before.

Could you be part of this future? Make us more.

Job overview Electronic Patient Records (EPR) represents a major IT project in Moorfield's excellence delivery programme. EPR will collate and consolidate the management of clinical records to support clinicians and colleagues across the trust in making more effective decisions, improving clinical outcomes and patient experience.

Our vision is to create a digitally enabled organisation that supports the delivery of efficient and effective patient care. We aim to achieve this through easy-to-use systems that provide staff and patients with access to the right information, in the right place, at the right time. To help us to achieve this vision, we are looking for passionate individuals to join our team.

You will be joining Moorfields Eye Hospital at an exciting time as we transform and innovate our QA process, ensuring our solutions are robust, scalable, and secure.

We are seeking a senior test engineer with cloud and automation testing expertise to implement and maintain testing frameworks for our applications and services.
Experience in technologies (or similar)

• .NET applications
• PHP Framework; Selenium; Playwright; BDD
• Test automation for cloud-based technology
• APi Testing

You will be joining a team where your ideas and expertise are valued. You will apply best practices to deliver quality and reliable software services and collaborate with DevOps and operational teams to integrate testing into the CI/CD pipeline.

Main duties of the job This role is part of the IT Operations, who are responsible for:

• Maintaining our IT services and ensuring they remain operational, performant, supported, fit-for-purpose and meeting the needs of our end users
• As IT subject matter experts, contributing to the design and development of new products and services
• Improving user experience in our systems and processes
• Proactively maintaining our IT service portfolio and reducing technical debt
• Helping to drive clinical innovation through technology

A senior test engineer is involved in test engineering activities at a complex level, and on large-scale projects / service delivery.
At this role level, you will:

• Identify and raise awareness of risks arising from the automation test results.
• Identify new and implement existing test frameworks to improve confidence in testing
• Be proficient in a range of coding languages (you may be an expert in only one)
• Mentor and advise other team members in testing practices

Working for our organisation At Moorfields, we provide more than just an excellent career and great colleagues to work with. We also offer:

• Salary including High-Cost Area Supplement
• Opportunity to join the NHS Pension Scheme
• Free 24/7 independent counselling service
• Learning and development opportunities
• Easy and quick transport links
• A range of attractive benefits and discounts
• Access to Blue Light Card and other NHS Discount Schemes
• Free Pilates classes
• Full support and training to develop your skills
• Flexible working friendly organisation

And so much more! To see the full range of benefits we offer please see our Moorfields benefits document.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities Leadership

• Mentor and coach other members of the Testing team

Test management

• Operate within a Test Management Framework (example: International Software Testing Qualifications Board - ISTQB)
• Identity process improvement opportunities for test management, estimation, monitoring and control tools and help implement improvement initiatives
• Contribute to the development of quality assurance test standards, policies and procedures
• Contribute to ensuring enterprise architecture is scalable through test assurance
• Contribute to innovation and service improvement through new and emerging technologies (such as AI & Machine Learning) in the quality assurance testing process

Functional testing

• Design and execute a wide range of testing techniques and communicate test results to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Make decisions on the environment for testing, and can coach others
• Identify defects, alert the business to them, and help to prioritise them based on defect severity.

Non-functional testing

• Design and execute a wide range of non-functional testing techniques.
• Communicate non-functional test results to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Make decisions on running types of non-functional testing.
• Coach and mentor others.
• Identify defects, alert the business to them, and help to prioritise them based on defect severity.

Technical breadth

• Demonstrate a good working knowledge of different tools and techniques, and can train others.
• Advise others on testing techniques and frameworks.
• Effectively research, plan and train others within the team.

Test analysis

• Think creatively, ask the right questions and critically evaluate and communicate findings to a larger team.
• Lead investigative work into problems and opportunities in existing processes.
• Drive the collection of information and the creation of recommendations for improvements.
• Absorb large amounts of conflicting information and use it to determine solutions.

Ownership and initiative

• You can own an issue until a new owner has been found, or the problem has been mitigated or resolved.
• Understand how to balance cost versus value - including the safe and efficient use of install, running and maintenance of software
• Consider the impact of user needs
• You know how to analyse current processes, identify and implement opportunities to optimise processes, and contribute to the implementation of proposed solutions.
• You can support specific activities to improve processes.
• You can spot or identify deficiencies.

Service focus

• You can take inputs and establish coherent frameworks that work.

Service reporting

• Responsible for ensuring that the quality assurance management platform is kept up-to-date with all testing activities across your portfolio of projects.
• Produce relevant reports in a standard format and agreed timeframe.
• Add a commentary that provides an interpretation of the data set.

Community of practice

• Develop and maintain a network of professionals to enable continuous learning and a community which can share, learn, and keep up to date on the quality assurance testing, and broader technology and data landscape

Other Duties:

• Occasional work may be required outside of core business hours to support major projects / programmes
• All other reasonable request

We do not offer visa sponsorship for roles unless clearly stated in our adverts, so please consider this before applying.

Person specification Education / Qualifications

• Degree, or equivalent relevant level of experience
• Relevant quality assurance testing certification, or equivalent experience
• Relevant management / leadership qualification, or equivalent experience to degree level

Experience

• Experience in the role of a test engineer, or equivalent role and proficiency with one (or more) scripting languages
• Experience of working within a test management framework (ISTQB, etc)
• Experience championing quality to drive successful and improved outcomes
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