Test Manager - Welsh Revenue Authority - SEO
Government Digital & Data -
Location
We encourage flexible and hybrid working but although this role can be based anywhere, some office attendance is required depending on business need. This role is based in Cardiff office.
About the job
Job summary
We’re responsible for Land Transaction Tax and Landfill Disposals Tax. Our work raises revenue to support public services, like the NHS and schools, in communities across Wales. But that’s not all, we're also involved with and support future tax design for Wales.
Join a place with purpose
You’ll join a team of 100+ talented people from across 14 different professions. Our culture is best described as innovative, collaborative and kind.
By working together, we’ll deliver a fair tax system for Wales.
You’ll be working with…
Our people come from a wide range of backgrounds and experience. From Operations, Policy, Digital and Data, HR, Communications to Finance – there’s a place for you in our friendly team.
You’ll be our greatest asset
When you join us, you’ll be part of a fair and inclusive team where you can thrive, be rewarded and heard.
We’ve consistently featured in the top 3 for people engagement in the Civil Service People Survey. Inclusion and fairness are our most strongest scoring areas – see our latest People Survey results.
And we’re recognised for our innovation as a digital ‘cloud-based’ organisation that supports hybrid and flexible working that enables a great work-life balance. More about working for us, our roles and our corporate plan 2025-2028 .
Job description
This is a key in the Digital team within WRA, and is aligned with UK Government Digital and Data Profession.
“This is a great opportunity for an experienced Test Engineer with strong test and quality assurance experience who can lead QA activities in a small but growing Digital team focused on building critical new services and solutions using an agile approach”.
Anthony Pritchard, Chief Digital Officer
Person specification
Test Engineering:
- Communicate the strategic vision for quality assurance.
- Foster a culture of innovation within the testing team, encouraging new ideas and approaches.
- Collaborate with development, service teams, and others to promote shift-left practices.
- Design comprehensive test plans and test cases, ensuring adherence to established test standards and best practices.
- Champion the objective to automate testing for key operational use cases, driving innovation in test automation; write test automation scripts using established tools and languages.
- Review test engineers' scripts to establish good practices.
- Plan and schedule testing activities, ensuring timely execution and resource allocation.
- Leverage statistical data to inform test coverage and drive data-driven decision-making.
- Lead and manage a team of test engineers, setting performance goals and conducting performance reviews.
- Regularly communicate with stakeholders to report on testing progress, issues, and risks.
- Drive continuous improvement in testing processes and methodologies
Quality Engineering and Assurance:
- Adopt a risk-based approach to target test engineering resources, expanding testing coverage in line with risk.
- Provide strategic leadership on high-level test scenarios, addressing challenges, risks, resources, and test estimates.
- Advocate for comprehensive analysis of requirements to develop thorough test scenarios.
- Ensure service consistency across devices, browsers, and operating systems.
- Perform manual testing to ensure thorough and effective testing practices.
- Innovate in developing test infrastructure tools for web, mobile, and desktop platforms.
- Promote robust change management of automated test scripts, ensuring adherence to proper change control processes.
Other:
- Foster and develop test engineers, providing guidance, training, and career development opportunities.
- If required, participate in Agile meetings throughout development cycles, contributing to continuous improvement.
- Create and maintain comprehensive test documentation for reference and reporting.
- Mentor and coach teams/organisations in test analysis techniques and practices.
- Identify and mitigate risks related to testing and quality assurance.
- Manage relationships with stakeholders and vendors, ensuring alignment with quality standards, processes, and project goals.
Languages
The following list of language requirements represents an objective assessment of the Welsh language skills required to undertake the duties of this post:
Welsh language skills Welsh skills are desirable but not essential for this role
Welsh desirable means that having Welsh language skills would be useful in this role, but it is not an assessment criteria so it won’t put you at any disadvantage during recruitment if you aren’t a Welsh speaker. We support all staff to learn or improve their Welsh language skills once they join us.
