Test and Release Manager

Social Work England are the specialist regulator for social work in England, focused on enabling positive change in social work. Every day, social workers support millions of people to improve their chances in life. We are taking a new approach to regulating social workers in their vital roles. We believe in the power of collaboration and share a common goal with those we regulate – to protect the public, enable positive change and ultimately improve people’s lives.

Social Work England have developed a bespoke Case Management System (CMS) and public facing website developed in Appian, Umbraco and C# to delivery our regulatory activities. The development of our Case Management System is being undertaken in conjunction with a third-party company. In order to ensure that new functionality is delivered to our requirements this role we need to ensure that:

• Effective testing of new functionality is carried prior to release of any new functionality into live.
• Regression testing of all functionality to ensure new functionality has no adverse effect on existing functionality.
• The process of code release to production is managed in a controlled way.

What you will do

• Identify test techniques and tools & design test strategies.
• Work with project team members and Subject Matter Experts to understand the business requirements in order to write and execute functional and non-functional tests at each level.
• Debug and refactor the test code as required.
• Measure and report on test activity, manage defects and author software defined tests.
• Undertake exploratory testing where required.
• Design test environment set-ups and configuration.
• Work with software developers to write automation tests across different levels and review release scripts across environments.
• Manage communications between projects to control integration and dependencies.
• Educate and support the rest of the delivery teams with testing and work with delivery teams to define ‘quality’.
• Use software development skills applied within a testing context.
• Create release plans for code promotion to the production environment.
• Ensure releases are coordinated with the business to ensure full communication of new functionality.

Your skills, knowledge and experience

• Experience of end-to-end functional and non-functional testing with the ability to write test approaches for major projects.
• Ability to advise on up-to-date functional testing techniques and effective in utilising a range of contemporary technologies including (not exclusively) cloud platforms, open source and ‘SaaS’ services to better enable and enhance the delivery of quality products and services.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with experience of working with a range of stakeholders including Software Developers, Project Team members, Subject Matter Experts and Executive Leadership Teams.
• Experience of managing & delivering an end-to-end test service with limited support.
• Data Protection and GDPR awareness is desirable.
• Experience of testing CRM functionality is desirable.
• Good team working experience.
• A demonstrable commitment to equality and diversity in service delivery.
• Experience of release management.

Details

• Job type: permanent
• Working pattern: full-time. We offer flexible working subject to business need.
• Salary: £43,505 per year, rising to £45,629 per year after successful completion of a 6-month probationary period
• Location: Sheffield/hybrid working
• Benefits: flexible working, contributory pension and life insurance and 25 days holiday
• Closing date: 6th February 2023

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £43,505.00-£45,629.00 per year

Benefits:

• Flexitime
• Sick pay
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Sheffield, S3 8JY

Reference ID: 10080