Technical Tester

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is looking for a Senior Technical Tester to help design, build and improve the digital services that support the NHS and wider health and care system. You will be a key contributor within an agile, multidisciplinary engineering team, developing accessible, high-quality and performant applications used by millions of users. You will work closely with designers, front-end and back-end developers, contributing to technical decisions and supporting the quality assurance of NICE's digital services. Interviews will take place in-person, in our Manchester office, and will include technical test as part of the interview process. Please note that this role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route, please refer to the Direct Gov website for more information with regards to eligibility. We reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications so please don't delay your submission.

• Ensure testing the quality and security of built applications.
• Work collaboratively as part of an Agile, multidisciplinary delivery team .
• Ensuring services meet accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2 AA) and follow NICE and GDS best practice.
• Supporting live services and helping identify and resolve technical issues.
• Working with the wider Engineering Team to ensure applications are built and deployed to a high standard with minimal issues.
• Create packages for deployment, Deploy and validate the success on the live environment.
• Maintain regular communication with the Agile, Development and Webops teams, escalating risks and issues as appropriate
• Ensure technical incidents for the live operational environment are communicated to the team effectively and in a timely manner.
• Produce and maintain appropriate management reporting documentation as required.
• Attend and contribute actively to Team meetings and agile ceremonies.
• Maintain documentation of the performance of NICE systems including Management Information reports as required.
• Support and contribute to the Transition/Development planning activity as required.
  
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