Digital Test Lead

Job overview

The Digital Test Lead will play a pivotal role in the delivery of high quality digital solutions across the Trust. This leadership position focuses on shaping the Trust’s digital testing and quality assurance (QA) strategy, overseeing multiple projects, and ensuring the seamless integration of advanced testing methodologies within the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

The Digital Test Lead will drive continuous improvement, operational excellence, and innovation in testing processes to support the Trust’s digital transformation objectives and enhance patient care.

The role involves leading a team of QA engineers and testers, collaborating with stakeholders across IT, clinical departments, and third party vendors, and ensuring that all applications meet the highest standards of performance, security, and usability.

The post holder will also be responsible for managing financial resources, overseeing budgets related to testing tools and technology, and ensuring compliance with NHS standards.

Main duties of the job

• Develop, deliver, and manage the testing strategy for the Trust’s digital solutions, ensuring integration with technical infrastructure, applications, and data conversion.
• Develop a detailed testing programme timeline in coordination with key programme leads, ensuring resources, environments, and tools are prepared for timely execution of testing.
• Oversee both manual and automated testing efforts, ensuring test coverage across applications, infrastructure, and integrated systems.
• Lead the development of detailed test plans, scripts, and test cases for functional, non-functional, integration, and regression testing.
• Liaise with IT teams, application owners, clinical leads, and external suppliers to ensure testing is aligned with project objectives.
• Collaborate with external vendors to ensure thorough testing of third-party solutions including relevant supplier relationship management where applicable.
• Act as the central point of contact for testing activities, presenting complex technical data and testing outcomes to various stakeholders, including senior management and clinical leads.
• Evaluate and adopt new tools and technologies for test automation, performance testing, and integration testing to enhance testing capabilities.
• Manage a multi-disciplinary test engineering team, providing leadership, mentoring, and training opportunities.
• Own and manage the overall testing programme across all digital applications, data conversion, and infrastructure readiness.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please find attached the Job Description, which provides details of the main responsibilities and requirements of the role.

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.