Job Title: Software Tester
Location: Hybrid working, Wednesdays & Thursdays in Birmingham office
Contract: 18-month fixed term contract
Hours: Full-time (37 hours per week)
Salary: Up to £31,000, depending on experience
Job Ref: ICT17

Your Benefits

• Generous Civil Service Pension, with an employer contribution rate of 27%
  
• 26 days’ holiday, rising to 29 days after two years’ service, with the option to buy up to five days extra annual leave
  
• Flexible working
  
• Hybrid working, with regular travel to Birmingham
  
• Ergonomic, fully accessible office, very close to Birmingham New Street Station
  
• Open, collaborative and people focused culture
  
• Employee Assistance Programme
  
  Your Role:
  
  Reporting to the Senior System Tester, you will provide support to workstream leads during the development of new, and changes to, existing systems. You will contribute to the successful delivery of outcomes across all workstreams, which require technical development, by delivering solutions and services to enable the output of quality products and meet commercial and regulatory requirements.
  
  This is a complex and challenging role with a varied and changing workload; the ability to manage an evolving workload, with the willingness to adapt to changing priorities and focus quickly will be essential.
  
  Your Responsibilities
  
  
• Proactively liaise with the Senior System Tester to provide robust resource and time requirements to support business cases for technical development approval, and to assist in the scheduling of development work.
  
• Responsible for creating detailed testing technical documentation.
  
• Accountable for ensuring that all developed solutions meet the business requirements and quality acceptance criteria, through thorough system testing and UAT.
  
• Responsible for providing support to colleagues through all key stages (testing, implementation and training) of the technical development life cycle.
  
• Proactively engage with business areas to ensure they are kept informed of testing progress and are fully involved with key decisions, risk discovery and mitigation.
  
• Accountable for preparing and maintaining technical support documents for developed systems.
  
• Responsible for the technical guardianship of the Siebel CRM.
  
• Providing expert system knowledge when training material is being created and assisting the business owner when approving training material.
  
  Your Profile
  
  Essential
  
  
• Experience of developing and executing test cases.
  
• Experience of developing and executing regression test cases to verify new code and defect fixes have not negatively impacted the tests that have already been completed.
  
• Good knowledge of software testing techniques.
  
• Experience of system testing, system integration and UAT on a complex and highly integrated project.
  
• Experience of using a continuous integration environment.
  
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
  
• Ability to engage with internal and external stakeholders to feedback on outcomes of testing and build effective relationships to reach mutually beneficial solutions.
  
  Desirable
  
  
• Experience of Azure Dev/Ops.
  
• Experience of testing APIs.
  
• Experience of testing data transformations.
  
• ISTQB/ISEB Testing Certification (Foundation).
  
• Basic understanding of Microsoft development platform.
  
• Knowledge of automated testing processes.
  
  Our Ways of Working
  
  Outcome-focused: We put consumers at the heart of everything we do. We take responsibility for an issue and moving it forward. We deliver results through working collaboratively.
  
  Reaching for ways to improve: We encourage feedback and ideas. We are committed to continuous improvement and are open to trying different ways of working. We celebrate successes and take responsibility when things go wrong.
  
  Respectful: We recognise every colleague’s contribution. We give each other timely constructive feedback. We all encourage challenge.
  
  Communicate well: We are clear and concise. We listen and check our understanding. We explain the reasons for decisions.
  
  Making this a great place to work: We all help to make the Commission a great place to work. We value and support each other. We demonstrate a positive attitude.
  
  About Us:
  
  Set up under the Gambling Act 2005, the Gambling Commission is committed to safeguarding the public against any detrimental impact brought about by gambling. We do this by keeping crime out, protecting children and vulnerable people and ensuring the commercial gambling industry is run fairly and openly. We work with the legal system, the public health system, community groups and the industry itself to understand how we can protect the interests of as many people as possible, as effectively as possible.
  
  Your Application:
  
  We recognise the importance of diversity and inclusion. We are committed to a working environment where each individual’s contribution is valued and respected, enabling our employees to thrive and reach their full potential. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
  
  To apply for this position please see our careers website.
  
  The closing date for this role is midnight, on 12th January 2025.
  
  Interviews will likely be held week commencing 20th January 2025.
  
  As an independent regulator, and particularly given the information to which Gambling Commission employees have access, it is important that the people we employ operate to the highest standards of honesty and integrity. This role will therefore require security screening and vetting as part of the recruitment process. Please also ensure you have the right to work in the UK before applying. We are unable to provide sponsorship for visas currently.
  
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