Database Tester - Remote

Skills and Experience
Essential
• Ability to quickly onboard and proactively intervene in high pressure situations
• Proven ability to proactively develop collaborative relationships with suppliers, internal delivery teams and/or customers.
• Proven ability to maintain in depth knowledge of test tools and testing methodologies, providing detailed advice regarding their application and execution
• Proven ability to understand and clearly articulate a complex data architecture and to assess and mitigate its data processing and management risks.
• Extensive experience of test and assurance of complex data processing, data transformation and data quality risks.
• Proven ability to identify and analyse test data requirements for multiple data domains and to develop and manage test data.

Desirable
• Ability to give feedback, participation in lessons learned exercises and take responsibility for actions in order to improve processes and ways of working moving forward
• Ability and willingness to work effectively in a large multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to analyse the impact of activities affecting a supplier community
• Ability to analyse, deliver and manage integrated test data in a shared test environment.

Qualifications
• Educated to Masters Degree level, or equivalent higher education qualification or an equivalent level of experience
• ISEB/ISTQB Software Testing Foundation Certificate (Certified or Agile Tester) or equivalent recognised qualification and equivalent level of experience
• Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable
• BCS Intermediate Certificate in Software Testing, or equivalent recognised qualification and equivalent level of experience
• ISEB/ISTQB Software Testing Practitioners Certificate/Certified Tester Advanced Level, or equivalent recognised qualification and equivalent level of experience

Skills required include the technical assurance of supplier systems covering data processing requirements:
• Knowledge of a number of complex operating systems, technical (Cloud/hardware) and data architectures, and how they interact in terms of technical and business requirements.
• Thorough working knowledge of agile testing and assurance processes and methods for data processing.
• Knowledge of tools and frameworks used for test automation, including bespoke, open source and commercial tools for data process testing.
• Knowledge of quality maturity models such as TMMI and quality standards such as the ISO9000 series to improve test capabilities.
• Knowledge of heath care informatics systems and the technology used, such as:
o functionality on secure Cloud services and integrated infrastructure
o operating systems such as UNIX / Ubuntu LINUX / Windows
o APIs, data transfer technologies and other technologies to enable integration and interoperability - database technologies such as Postgres, Riak and Oracle
o querying technologies such as SQL and Erlang
• Specialist knowledge of data process testing including data interface specifications, data management tools and anonymisation techniques in a large scale, multiple component delivery context.
• Ability to use structured test data and enable test environment provision to improve and aid functional and integration testing.

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