Job summary
- Main area
- IT
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 025-AC099-0525
- Employer
- Digital Health and Care Wales
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hybrid working
- Town
- Location to be confirmed at interview
- Salary
- £54,550 - £61,412 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Test Manager
Band 8a
Digital Health and Care Wales is an ambitious organisation created by Welsh Government to lead on the digital transformation of health and care. It builds on the digital architecture and national services put in place by the NHS Wales Informatics Service over the past decade.
The organisation will lead on large-scale developments that make a significant difference to the people of Wales as well as to health and care professionals, such as expansion of the digital patient record and the creation of a National Data Resource. It will improve the way data is collected, shared and used. Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
Are you passionate about test automation, digital transformation, and developing others? Do you want to play a key role in ensuring world-leading digital vaccination services continue to evolve? If so, we want you to join our team!
Why This Role Matters
The Welsh Immunisation System (WIS) has been at the heart of one of the most successful vaccination campaigns in the world. It enabled real-time reporting, reduced vaccine waste, and helped NHS Wales administer over 10 million COVID-19 vaccinations. But we’re not stopping there.
We are now transforming WIS into a universal vaccination platform, expanding its capabilities beyond COVID-19 not just to support multiple vaccines and future public health challenges but to share our learning with other products in Community and Mental Health as we create a unified automation first test strategy.
To do this, we need a Test Manager who can drive continuous improvement, automation, and innovation, ensuring the system is robust, scalable, and future-proof.
You’ll lead the charge in test strategy, optimisation, and innovation, working alongside multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-profile digital solutions that support NHS Wales and lead a key pillar of our prevention strategy.
Main duties of the job
What You’ll Be Doing
- Leading test strategy and automation, ensuring our digital services meet the highest standards.
- Driving continuous testing with CI/CD pipelines, enabling faster and more reliable releases.
- Helping evolve our microservices-based architecture and embedding best practices in test automation.
- Managing stakeholders, suppliers, and teams to maintain seamless quality assurance.
- Supporting professional development by mentoring and coaching others in automation and testing methodologies.
- Playing a crucial role in ensuring vaccination services are efficient, scalable, and accessible across Wales.
Our Testing & Automation Vision
- Over 80% test automation coverage – enabling 611 functional tests in 3 hours instead of 6 weeks manually.
- Integrated CI/CD pipelines so every code change is tested instantly, reducing risk and improving efficiency.
- A shift to microservices and API-first design, ensuring a modern, scalable system that integrates with national health platforms.
- Developing a user-centred design approach, making WIS intuitive, efficient, and accessible.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) is part of the NHS Wales family and has an important role in changing the way health and care services are delivered through technology and data. The organisation supports frontline staff with modern systems and access to important information about their patients, while empowering the people of Wales to manage their own health through digital NHS Wales services.
Working for DHCW offers lots of employee benefits, including flexible working, a competitive salary, 28 days of annual leave plus Bank Holidays and opportunities for career development. We are committed to recognising and celebrating our staff as the most valuable part of our organisation.
Join our game changing, life-saving team and start making a real difference to health and care services in Wales.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac
Why Join Us?
- Be part of a cutting-edge digital transformation, improving population Health across Wales.
- Help create our Community of Practice, shaping the future of testing in NHS Wales.
- Mentor and develop the next generation of test professionals.
- Work in a collaborative and supportive environment where your expertise is valued.
- Opportunities for continuous learning and career progression in a forward-thinking organisation.
If you have a passion for test automation, developing people, and making useful software that will save lives we’d love to hear from you. Join us and help shape the future of Community Health in Wales!
Person specification
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Educated to Master’s level or equivalent qualification / experience
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Practitioner of Agile working with multi-disciplinary teams
- A relevant testing certification or relevant functional and non-functional technical testing experience.
- Proficient in Automation Testing and test analysis using technologies
Desirable criteria
- Working knowledge of the NHS or the Health sector.
- Understanding and knowledge of health service terminology and information requirements
- Knowledge of DHCW and how it supports the NHS.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of working in a testing role with use of testing tools
- Experience applying highly developed specialised knowledge, supported by pertinent theoretical knowledge and applicable practical experience, across a range of work methods and practices
- Proven experience in the analysis, testing and product management of digital systems.
- Proven record in the delivery and support of major digital products and services.
- Experience in coaching and mentoring staff; specifically agile and multi-disciplinary teams.
- Excellent understanding of translating business/functional requirements into specialist technical specifications and complex operational digital products and services
- Can demonstrate a track record of testing.
- Experience of working in an Agile environment.
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to manage and motivate staff by contributing to and identifying training needs
- Ability to learn and assess new technologies quickly, understanding their wider implications and where appropriate implementing them
- Ability to organise own work and manage a team effectively.
- Implement Change Management methodology within team environment.
- Ability to analyse and resolve complex issues using expert judgement skills to prioritise and compare options
- Ability to provide or receive highly contentious information, and use persuasive, negotiating, and re-assurance skills to understand and mitigate barriers and blockers
- High quality written and verbal communication skills with excellent presentation skills.
- In depth understanding of the information and service delivery needs of NHS Wales
- Proven experience of working in testing
- Ability to manage under pressure with excellent planning and organisational skills
- Professional, and positive approach to work
- Ability to establish good working relationships.
- Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Joshua Hunt
- Job title
- Head of Agile Delivery
- Email address
- [email protected]
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