Leeds City Council
Senior Software Tester - Grade PO2
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Job Description
- Req#: req17635
Senior Software Tester - Grade PO2
Leeds City Council - Resources & Housing
Salary PO2 - £35,411.00 - £38,296.00 Hours 37 Hours Contract Type Permanent Closes Monday 26 June 2023 11:30 PM Job Ref req17635 Leeds City Council is transforming local public services by putting technology at the heart of the organisation.
The Integrated Digital Service works across Leeds City Council and the Integrated Care Board (Leeds) - opening up a number of exciting prospects to work within the health and care sector and local authority. The Integrated Digital Service is improving how services are delivered, using user research to inform technology solutions that are accessible, easy to use and reliable. We are innovating and changing services by investing in automation through technologies such as power platform and RPA. It is a very exciting time to join the growing team within a city renowned for excellence in the digital sector. We hope to attract people who want to innovate and transform IT to help improve the services we provide and ultimately improve individual’s lives.
An opportunity has arisen for an experienced automation software tester to join our busy in-house team. Do you have the skills and experience we need?
As part of the DevOps Team, you’ll be working with development project teams, software testers and developers with a cloud-first focus. You’ll ensure the delivery of high-quality accessible products and services through the application of testing techniques, knowledge, and practice. You’ll be familiar with Software Development Lifecycle principles and agile approaches.
As an automation software tester, you’ll have experience of testing using a variety of tools and technologies. Ideally, these will include Visual Studio 2019 or above, TFS 2018, Azure DevOps, C#, Selenium WebDriver, SpecFlow, GitHub. You’ll also have knowledge of .Net core, .Net Framework, SQL Server, PowerShell, BizTalk, BrowserStack, or similar cloud hosted device/service virtualisation, as well as Azure and other cloud services.
In addition, you’ll have a proven track record of working as part of a dedicated team, a flexible approach to managing competing priorities and workloads, responding quickly and appropriately to changing needs and be able to demonstrate excellent organisational and decision-making skills.
Do you have:
-Strong communication skills?
-Experience of test automation techniques and technologies?
-Experience of designing, and developing test automation frameworks from scratch?
-Experience of CI/CD pipelines set up and maintenance?
-Effective test design, planning and scheduling knowledge?
-Experience of functional requirements analysis?
-A risk-based testing approach?
-A passion for delivering high quality applications?
About us:
Leeds City Council is a caring and responsible employer, and beyond working on exciting projects that impact the people of Leeds, you’ll receive great benefits including a minimum of 26 days holiday plus bank holidays (increasing by 5 days after 5 years), hybrid flexible working, flexi-time and a pension scheme.
Our values remain at the heart of everything we do and how we work:
-Being open, honest and trusted: I can be my best.
-Treating people fairly: I feel valued for who I am.
-Spending money wisely: I make every pound go further.
-Working as a team for Leeds: I am part of a can do team.
-Working with all communities: I make a difference.We promote diversity and want a workforce that reflects the population of Leeds and the communities we serve.
Leeds City Council is an Inclusive employer, ranked 70 on the Stonewall top 100 employers 2023 list.
We are also an Age friendly employer, a Mindful employer and a Disability Confident leader.
All new Leeds City Council appointments are made subject to the satisfactory completion of a six month probationary period.
This role is based in the UK. Employment is conditional on confirmation of the right to work in the UK - either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa. If you do not have the right to work in the UK and the role does not meet eligibility for sponsorship, please consider carefully whether you meet the eligibility to apply.About the company
Leeds City Council is the local authority of the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England.
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