# Test Analyst

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** St George's Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Analyst
- **Grade:** Band 5
- **Salary:** £38,488 - £46,852 per annum incl HCAS (Inner)
- **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (Until September, 2027)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-16T07:00:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-02T08:00:42.837Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/St_Georges_University_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Informatics_Digital_Technology/Informatics_Digital_Technology-v8315035
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8315035?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The ICT department manages the Trust’s ICT systems, infrastructure and IT support services enabling the electronic filing, printing and sharing of both clinical and non-clinical information. It also provides support to manage the systems and services which includes:

helpdesk; IT training; break-fix; application development, acquisition and support for all the supported Trust IT services. The ICT department is also responsible for Information Governance.

We work to identify opportunities to streamline business processes and to enable data sharing and collaboration internally and externally by use, or replacement, of technology. In addition, ICT should provide tools to enable business units to achieve their goals, resulting in improved quality of care to patients.

### Main duties of the job

Act as a point of contact for staff from all parts of the organisation that need testing assistance or advice.

Work closely with change managers, operational managers and end-users to understand the workflow and expected functionality being developed.

Write comprehensive test scripts to fully verify the development system against product specifications and user expectations.

Interpret the often-complex testing output to identify defects and functional omissions.

Document defects so that the issue can be reliably replicated.

Report defects to suppliers/developers so that the issue is understood, and the expected solution is clear.

Ensure issues, especially those impacting patient safety, are escalated within the organisation.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

*****Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role*****

### Applicant requirements

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Experience of working in NHS or a healthcare company on healthcare systems.
- Experience of working with Cerner applications
- Experience in working in fast changing technology environment, with demonstrable experience of adapting to change and learning new technologies quickly.

**Desirable**

- Experience as testing analyst or systems administration or back-office support
- Experience of defect tracking and managing the tracking/resolution of the defects.
- Highly developed specialist knowledge in software engineering - experience of testing Cerner Applications, interface solutions or database infrastructure.
- Experience of extracting and verifying HL7 messages

### Communications

**Essential**

- Strong communications and relationship building skills

**Desirable**

- Good presentation techniques

### Knowledge & Skills

**Essential**

- Good understanding of various test methodologies and processes.
- Sound understanding of IT project lifecycle.
- Able to identify and raise issues and risks.

**Desirable**

- Knowledge of Millennium and/or RiO back-office tools
- Knowledge of the following software systems:
- Lab and Rad systems
- AutoHotKey (automation software)
- HEAT (helpdesk software)

### Personal Qualities

**Essential**

- Excellent attention to detail
- Effective team player
- Willing to work flexible hours especially around the time of upgrades and implementations
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines

### Qualifications & Training

**Essential**

- ISTQB Certified Software Testing Qualification

**Desirable**

- St Georges Cerner in house training in PAS and Scheduling
- Demonstration of career development

## Documents

- [b5 test analyst role (pdf, 275.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10635988)
- [ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2411)
- [swl ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3045)

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