QA Lead

Position:  QA Lead

Suitable for:  QA Lead or Senior QA Analyst with health data, Power BI and SQL experience

Location:  Hybrid / Milton Keynes (at least once a month)

Salary:  To £55k + bens

Our client is a UK healthcare software development company that build and deliver market leading applications. They have high ambitions and are looking to bring in a QA Lead to join the health data analytics team.

The QA Lead will work collaboratively with stakeholders across the business and within the NHS and Care Customer base to develop and operationally lead the QA and Solution Assurance capability.

Ideally, you will have a background in health data with experience of using visualisation products.  A deep understanding of quality and validation is essential.  The QA Lead will need to have hands-on experience with interrogating data with Azure SQL and Power BI. 

Essential:

• Min 3+ years’ experience as a QA Lead, Senior QA Analyst or similar
• Understanding and practical experience of using data quality validation techniques and QA processes
• A working experience of healthcare data and data flows
• Experience diagnosing, reporting, tracking and resolving data quality and software issues
• Experience with databases, with hands on knowledge of SQL
• Experience with data analysis and business intelligence/data visualisation software, Power BI (or similar)
• Experience developing test scripts and test cases both automated and manual
• Experience of working within a team of software testers and data analysts in a software development environment
• Ability to work in a structured environment e.g. with defined test cases and an aptitude to think more widely about the context of such work and broader interdependencies
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and oral).
• Experience of Risk Assessment, Root Cause Analysis and Vulnerability Analysis
• An understanding of any of Primary Care data, healthcare coding systems, and risk stratification systems in HealthCare, especially Population Health

Desirable:

• Knowledge of the end to end software development life cycle
• Experience of working with an Agile Scrum team
• Experience of working with Notebooks
• Experience using a professional Test Management system e.g. Quality Centre, Quality Manager, Jira
• Having worked within a Data Quality or QA role within a data centric business
• The production of automated test routines

Full job description is available on request

To apply:  Please follow the online application process and upload your CV, in Word format

Please note: You must be eligible to work in the UK for your application to be considered (sorry, our client is unable to offer sponsorship).  Due to large numbers of applications, unfortunately we cannot provide detailed feedback to everyone, however, if you wish to find out how your application is progressing, please call or e-mail the office and someone will help you / get back to you.