QA Tester

Join us as a QA Tester in our Digital Workspaces Test team, working across all things Desktop related. You will enable our colleagues to deliver for our customers by ensuring that any changes to Desktop software/services are rigorously tested. You’ll need to be good a delivering information to people, technical and non-technical, in this role as you will communicate updates to relevant business users. You will collaborate with our Release, Product and Project teams to ensure that testing is effective and that User Acceptance Testing is conducted efficiently. You will triage and escalate any defects to colleagues, and maintain full traceability of defects, tests and requirements. We are looking for passionate and innovative people to join our team and help to deliver real value, sharing knowledge and lessons learned with our QA Testing community. We’re a learning organisation and you’ll have the opportunity to invest in your skills and career in the way that works best for you, whether that is coaching, book budgets, online courses, or formal certifications.

• Experience of establishing professional relationships with a range of stakeholders

Personal Statement:

• Experience of communicating with other teams and sharing knowledge.
• Experience reviewing requirements, specifications and defining test conditions.
• Experience of executing test scripts and developing reusable test collateral.
• Experience of test planning and estimation.
• Experience of the defect management process, acting as a conduit between differing roles to drive resolution of issues preventing delivery of testing activities.

DWP is the UK’s largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year, and support over 25 million daily users.

You’ll help us deliver a once-in-a-generation transformation of government products and services. We use fresh ideas and leading-edge technologies to create innovative, scalable and user-centric digital solutions on an epic scale. The DWP products and services we maintain and modernise will be used by nearly every person in the UK, at key moments in their lives. Delivering World-Class Products

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model – you’ll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub. Pay: We offer competitive pay of £37,497. Pension: You’ll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%. Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 24 days and rising to 26 days over time. You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You’ll also get all the usual public holidays. We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
• Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with ‘I Can Be Me in DWP’
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it’s even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Sports and social activities
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.