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Job summary

Main area
ICT
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (On site presence will be required for this role)
Job ref
218-AC-B5-8138498
Employer
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire
Town
Coventry
Salary
£32,073 - £39,043 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
16/08/2026 23:59

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University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust logo

Digital Systems Test Analyst

NHS AfC: Band 5

Job overview

A new opportunity has arisen in the ICT Department at UHCW NHS Trust.  The role is for a Digital Systems Test Analyst, involving both manual and automated testing across various IT systems in the Trust.

The successful candidate will  work in a team of Digital Systems Test Analysts and become knowledgeable with Trust systems, including the Electronic Patient Record (EPR).  The role will involve creating manual and automated test scripts, leverage robotic process automation (RPA) tools to design, create and deploy across various test scenarios, automating testing processes.

Closing Date: Please be advised that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.

Main duties of the job

  1. Participate in defining and refining the team’s development standards, practices, and methodologies in line with ISO 9001 and ISO 20000:1. 
  2. Responsible for developing and ensuring implementation of testing process, guidelines, checklists, and templates.
  3. Assist with testing and assurance activities for digital solutions in the Trust, contributing to strategies, policies, and SOPs within this area.
  4. Provide quality assurance for solutions through appropriate test coverage, analysis, and interpretation of highly complex information to identify defects and support their resolution.
  5. Develop test plans that that focus on high value areas of a solution.
  6. Assist with the development of test scripts using the Trust’s test automation solution.

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.

We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.

Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.

We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence® designated organisation – please click the link for further details about this prestigious award. Pathway To Excellence ® - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (uhcw.nhs.uk)

By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.

The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • Responsible for ensuring functional and non-functional testing of ICT Services projects. Generating test scripts (manual and automated), advising the Digital Testing Team on how to develop test scripts to ensure successful User Acceptance Testing (UAT) / Functional Testing.
  • Reporting test progress against IT Service developed applications and third party applications, and for ensuring data and configuration are suitable to allow for full UAT.
  • Undertake testing across all digital systems including clinical, corporate and infrastructure solutions.
  • Responsible for ensuring testing and regression testing take places to agreed policies/standards to ensure successful release management.
  • Responsible for ensuring UAT sign off and completion of project testing documents.
  • Responsible for continued review of testing documents, policies and standard changes.
  • Support software quality assurance testing to gauge and monitor the various testing activities performed by the Digital Testing Team.
  • To liaise with and advise Digital Systems Test Manager and Clinical Data Architects and other service leads relating to the design, development of testing processes and document authoring.
  • Contribute to project planning with regards to testing cycles.
  • Ensure effective management of the defect tracking process for given projects.
  • Escalate both clinical hazards and risks identified during testing.
  • Support embedded best practice safe digital standard work across all aspects of the Trust Digital solutions.
  • Maintain and develop a library of test scripts for each information system.
  • Maintain and develop a record of testing outcomes and bug tracking.
  • Create and manage knowledge documentation to ensure knowledge transfer and support for all information systems.
  • Record all assumptions/issues and risks in the appropriate development / team logs, ensuring that they clearly describe the impact and urgency to allow effective management of them.
  • Create testing plans to support operational product delivery of system developments in line with Trust strategies and business plans.
  • Carry out comprehensive functional system testing, including the production of test scripts, to ensure all system developments released are fit for purpose and produce the expected results.
  • Plan, document and execute functional testing for planned system upgrades/updates.
  • Document testing scripts, plans and outcomes to support the testing framework and the implementation of quality information systems.

For further details please see the attached job description.

 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • • Educated to degree level or equivalent IT systems implementation experience. • Knowledge of testing standards. • Knowledge gained through experience or formal training in: o System / Functional Testing o Manual Testing o Automation Testing
Desirable criteria
  • • ICT related qualifications. • ISTBQ certification. • Qualification in software testing.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Experience in test planning. • Quality assurance and quality control. • Experience of UAT and Functional test script creation and development, execution, and reporting. • Experience in reporting during testing activities including issue progression and delays. • Must be able to effectively prioritise own work. • Experience of successfully resolving complex problems. • Experience of System Testing and/or User Acceptance Testing.
Desirable criteria
  • • Experience of cross organisational working between Acute healthcare organisations. • Knowledge and experience of clinical or operational NHS management. • Testing experience of clinical IT systems. • Software development lifecycle. • Automated testing tools.

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • • Knowledge and understanding of testing strategies. • A good knowledge of testing processes and an understanding of how these fit within an overall development lifecycle. • A good knowledge of defect management and structured approaches to resolution of issues.
Desirable criteria
  • • Knowledge of one or more programming languages.

Skills

Essential criteria
  • • Expert user of MS Office applications. • Good interpersonal skills. • The ability to demonstrate effective listening, verbal and written skills when dealing with colleagues and team members. • Ability to identify opportunities, analyse options and develop creative solutions. • Ability to work across teams, departments, and organisations in a complex environment. • Able to create comprehensive documentation. • Excellent attention to detail.
Desirable criteria
  • • Good analytical skills.

Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours

Essential criteria
  • • Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s values. (As detailed in UHCW’s Values in Action document below) • Applicants applying for job roles with managerial responsibility will be required to demonstrate evidence of promoting equal opportunities through work experience

Employer certification / accreditation badges

No smoking policyAge positiveDisability confident leaderImproving working livesArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Pathway to excellenceCare quality commission - GoodPregnancy Loss PledgeHeart Charter

Application numbers

Please be advised that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Asif Sheikh
Job title
Head of Clinical Systems
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07786856106
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