At a Glance
- Tasks: Join our Testing team to ensure top-notch quality in IT projects.
- Company: Historic England, dedicated to preserving and promoting historic places.
- Benefits: 28 days holiday, competitive pension, corporate discounts, and free entry to heritage sites.
- Other info: Flexible working options available, promoting diversity and inclusion.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on England's historic environment while developing your career.
- Qualifications: Experience in Agile and Waterfall testing, with skills in automation and regression.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
We are the public body that looks after England’s historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them. Historic England has a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Senior Test Analyst. This is a full time, fixed term contract until 31st March 2029.
The location of this role is National where we offer hybrid working, you will be based in one of our following offices and from home - Newcastle, York, Manchester, Birmingham, Swindon, Bristol, Portsmouth (Fort Cumberland) and Cambridge.
We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive defined benefit pension scheme to which we make 28.97% employer contributions, a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the country and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals.
What you will be doing:
- This role is an integral part of the Testing team, working on Agile & Waterfall Project Delivery Teams to drive up quality assurance of IT changes, improvements and innovation work streams and initiatives.
- You will robustly champion and deliver a wide variety of testing types from system, integration, regression, performance, accessibility, to functional and UAT disciplines, across our diverse software, hardware and User network.
Who we are looking for:
- Experience of working across Agile and Waterfall Projects in a testing capacity.
- Experience of improving testing practices / contributing to ways of working.
- Test automation and regression test experience.
Please note your application will be scored and assessed against the above criteria.
We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you. We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We want to make sure our working arrangements don’t prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances. We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can. We are open to considering options including job sharing, part-time working, compressed hours working and different working locations, including hybrid working.
We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and candidates with disabilities as they are underrepresented within Historic England at this level. Historic England wants all of our candidates to shine in the recruitment process. Please tell us what we can do to make sure you can show us your very best self.
