Senior QA Tester - Remote Opportunity in Public Health

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior QA Tester remote to join our dynamic Digital and Data team at Public Health Wales. You'll play a key role in developing and delivering high-quality digital solutions that support national health services. Working closely with senior technical leads and your team, you'll contribute to designing, building, and maintaining systems that improve digital health services in Wales. It's a great time to join us as we're adopting new technologies and growing our technical professions.

What You'll Do

• Contribute to planning and executing comprehensive testing strategies to ensure scalable, secure, and interoperable systems meet quality standards.
• Provide technical expertise in quality assurance, test automation and mentor/support colleagues in applying best testing practices.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure testing aligns with technical, clinical, and business requirements.
• Apply agile and user-centred testing practices and collaborate with diverse teams.
• Ensure testing processes comply with data protection, cyber security, and national digital infrastructure standards.
• Support defect management, assist with troubleshooting quality issues, and help ensure systems perform reliably through rigorous testing.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree, or equivalent experience delivering similar outcomes in an associated professional field.
• Applied knowledge of software testing in Agile teams.
• Experience in designing and maintaining automated test frameworks using C#, Selenium and Playwright.
• Experience in designing advanced API test suites in Postman and test strategies when using standards such as FHIR.
• Familiar with applying cloud-native testing practices and contributing to test strategies for microservices and containerised environments (e.g., Azure, Docker, Kubernetes).

Nice to Have

• Professional certification e.g. Professional Scrum Developer, Microsoft certified, Agile/Scrum testing certification, ISTQB Certified Tester - Foundation Level (CTFL).
• Experience in designing, implementing and maintaining automated test pipelines.
• Knowledge of applying clinical safety standards in QA processes.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary ranging from £39,263 to £47,280 per annum.
• Opportunity to work on impactful projects that improve public health.
• Flexible working arrangements including remote work.
• Supportive and inclusive workplace culture.
• Professional development opportunities.