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Senior Test Engineer

University of Bath - Digital, Data & Technology Group

Location: Bath
Salary: £37,999 to £45,163 Grade 7, per annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Placed On: 9th October 2024
Closes: 27th October 2024
Job Ref: CH11830R

About the role

Reporting to the Head of IT Portfolio Management, this role will be responsible for establishing and leading a new Quality Assurance and Testing (QAT) practice. The Senior Test Engineer will define QAT policies, strategies, utilise test automation where appropriate to implement best practices and drive excellence in software and service testing. 

Working with the IT Portfolio Team, the Senior Test Engineer will support the delivery of projects within the IT Projects portfolio, through the implementation of appropriate test and quality assurance frameworks and processes that integrate with the Project Management Framework and ITIL processes. 

The role will work with colleagues and key stakeholders across the organisation to define and implement consistent approaches to business acceptance testing ensure the quality assurance of technology related projects and services. 

You will collaborate with technical delivery teams across the department to ‘shift testing left’, educating, empowering and enabling delivery teams to embed Quality Assurance and Testing best-practices within their day-to-day work. 

This role will also represent QAT practice at the regular Change Advisory Board (CAB) to ensure appropriate quality assurance around changes to live IT services.

Previous experience of the following:

  • Establishing and leading a QAT team, ideally in an academic environment.
  • Building sustainable relationships across key IT and University wide stakeholders.
  • Supervising or managing and developing an effective team in a complex environment.
  • Test automation using industry-standard tools (e.g., Selenium, JUnit, TestNG).
  • Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, tools, and best practices. 

What we can offer you:

Find out more about our benefits.

We consider ourselves to be an inclusive university, where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on our teams. 

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

Find out from our staff what makes the University of Bath a great place to work. Follow us @UniofBath and @UniofBathJobs on Twitter for more information.

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