Principal QAT Delivery Owner

Home Office Digital designs, builds and develops services for the rest of the department and for government. Every year our systems support up to 3 million visa applications, checks on 100 million border crossings, up to 8 million passport applications and deliver 140 million police checks on people, vehicles and property.

As a Principal Quality Assurance and Testing (QAT) Delivery Owner for the Emergency Services Mobile Communication Programme (ESMCP), you?ll be critical to overseeing QAT projects, dealing with risks and issues, setting the direction for QAT and implementing QAT approaches. You will be expected to provide technical advice and assurance on improving the way things are done. You will provide technical leadership, guidance and support to others within the QAT community. You will work with senior delivery partners to make sure QAT is embedded by default into the development, integration and rollout approach. To help the QAT practice thrive, you will call on your expertise in emerging tools and approaches and apply these to help the organisation deliver better success.

Working across multiple complex project teams, you will promote quality outcomes and values across the organisation.

Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. Where this is the case, employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in the office . Applicants can raise any queries to the email address at the bottom of the advert.

Watch this short video to hear from members of Home Office Digital talking about the projects they work on and their experience of working here: Working for Home Office Digital., Your main day to day responsibilities will be:

• Setting the Organisational level strategy for the initiation, delivery and development of QAT solutions
• Working in collaboration with senior delivery partners in QAT, Home Office Government Digital and Data Profession and more broadly across the organisation or wider industry, to ensure that effective and efficient QAT capabilities are developed and fully integrated into the software development process
• Establishing and maintaining effective commercial partnerships, working with a diverse range of specialist QAT service providers to build multi-disciplined teams
• Providing technical advice and assurance on the wider application of QAT solutions, influencing the effectiveness and delivery of quality practices throughout the organisation
• Leading QAT teams throughout the delivery process through the influential provision of technical leadership and guidance
• Identifying and driving forward the development QAT capabilities within the QAT organisation, including continuous professional development and exploitation of new and emerging industry leading technologies
• Working with business stakeholders, understanding their needs and translating them into a QAT approach
• Working in collaboration with other delivery partners in QAT and Home Office Government Digital and Data Profession to ensure that effective and efficient QAT capabilities are developed and fully integrated into the software development process

Other day to day activities may depend on the delivery approach, business area or requirements of the product team. Person specification

Working Pattern

Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis. However, compressed hours are available., The allowance values are set by the Home Office, subject to remaining in a qualifying role. This allowance is non-contractual, subject to an annual review and could be withdrawn at any time.

For both new entrants and existing civil servants, the total compensation offer is a combination of base salary and, if applicable, a capability-based allowance. The pay ranges for this role for London are £80,237 - £88,261. New entrants to the Civil Service will start on the pay range minimum. For existing civil servants, our policies on level transfer and promotion will apply.

Reasonable Adjustments

If a person with disabilities is at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:

• Contact Government Recruitment Service via as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
• Complete the ?Assistance Required? section in the ?Additional Requirements? page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you are deaf, a language service professional.

If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the ?Contact point for applicants? section.

Feedback Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. Security Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check .

See our vetting charter . People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks. Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

• Defining QAT strategies at department or organisational level, aligning to business goals and delivery approach (including within modern continuous integration/release and Agile environments) Developing and overseeing a culture of quality management and quality first.
• Setting the strategy on independent test assurance and review activities across ESMCP, including thoroughly evaluating assurance controls using metrics to continually improve assurance and ESN product quality
• For large scale (300k plus users), critical, resilience and secure systems assuring critical activities including automation, performance, security, accessibility and acceptance are embedded within the QAT/development approach
• Translating strategies into practical, risk-based plans, including test and assurance activities across the delivery lifecycle including testing of mobile networks, end user devices and full end-to-end integration
• A knowledge of the role and responsibilities of a System Integrator (SI), coordinating technical dependencies, schedules, and cost/resource profiles
• Working at senior leadership level from the three emergency services, and Welsh and Scottish governments, establishing and maintaining extensive stakeholder networks and actively engaging other senior leaders to communicate and agree complex strategies and technical plans

SFIA capability framework

Skills for the Information Age (SFIA) version 8 is the technical framework that sets the standard capability and development of all levels in the Home Office. This is a link to the capability framework: All skills A - Z English (sfia-online.org).

We use set SFIA technical skills to form our interview questions and we will assess you against these technical skills during the selection process.

The essential skills listed above are reflective of the Home Office Government Digital and Data Profession Career Framework (based on the industry standard SFIA framework). Use the SFIA Levels of responsibility to understand what would be expected for each technical skills listed below.

Strategic Planning (ITSP) ? Level 5

Test Analysis, Design and Execution ? Level 4

Automation and Tooling ? Level 4

Performance Testing ? Level 4

Integration and Assurance ? Level 5

Domain Experience ? Level 4 Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions
• Seeing the Big Picture

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Strategic Planning (ITSP) ? Level 5
• Test Analysis, Design and Execution - Level 4
• Automation and Tooling - Level 4
• Performance Testing ? Level 4
• Integration and Assurance ? Level 5
• Domain Experience ? Level 4, Candidates reaching the required standard will then be invited to attend an interview. The interview will assess your Technical Skills (SFIA Framework) and Behaviours using technical and behaviour-based questions.

At the beginning of the interview, you will be required to deliver a presentation. The presentation topic will be provided prior to you prior to your interview.

If you are invited to an interview, you will be required to bring a range of documentation for the purposes of establishing identity and to aid any pre-employment checks. Please see the attached list of Home Office acceptable ID documents., For meaningful security checks to be carried out, individuals need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time. Learn more on our website. Security Checks - Home Office Careers.

Please note that this role requires Security Check (SC) clearance, which would normally need 5 years? UK residency in the past 5 years.

However, in exceptional circumstances security clearance applications for candidates who have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years may be considered. Failure to meet this residency requirement will result in your security clearance application being rejected., We are unable to sponsor any individuals via Skilled Worker Sponsorship / Tier 2 (General) work visas as we do not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License.

You may be eligible for an additional Recruitment and Retention Allowance (RRA), pending a Capability and Skills Assessment, with a value of up to £12,000 A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97% GBP Job grade Grade 6 Contract type Permanent Business area HO - Home Office Digital Type of role Digital Information Technology Working pattern Full-time, Compressed hours Number of jobs available 1 Contents

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• Apply and further information, Benefits Alongside your salary of £80,237, Home Office contributes £23,244 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Why work for us...

Find out more information at: Benefits - Home Office Careers, but some of the primary ones are:

• A Civil Service Pension with employer contribution rates of at least 28.97%.
• In-year reward scheme for one-off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements.
• 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service.
• 8 days of public holidays, plus 1 additional privilege day.
• Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office.