Senior Systems Tester

Our IT colleagues are vital to the smooth running and maintenance of the systems that enable The Guinness Partnership to successfully deliver services to our customers and to empower our colleagues to work smarter and more effectively. We have a new opportunity for a Senior Systems Tester to join our IT team. This is a full time, 35 hours per week, 12 month fixed term role based at our Oldham, Bower House office. We are currently working to a hybrid working style.

The overall purpose of the role is to lead, test and assure the quality of all system development changes, updates and deployments to the Guinness IT Information Systems estate.

We are looking for someone with proven experience leading and line-managing small system test teams, bringing confidence and clarity to coordinating people and workloads. You will have a strong track record of testing IT information systems across diverse technologies and integration platforms, ensuring high-quality assurance throughout system development. You should be experienced in test execution at all levels from unit and system to integration and regression and be capable of producing high-quality test plans, cases and scripts. Familiarity with one or more delivery approaches such as Waterfall, SDLC, Agile, Scrum or DevOps is essential, along with the ability to apply these methods effectively in a fast-moving development environment., * Proven experience of leading and line managing small system test teams.

• Proven experience of testing IT Information Systems across a broad range of technology solutions and their associated integration platforms needed to support the quality assurance of system development delivery.
• Experience of test execution at all levels (Unit, System, Integration and Regression).
• Experience of producing high quality test execution plans, cases, and scripts.
• Experience of leading and testing within one or more system development delivery approaches such as Waterfall, SDLC, Agile, Scrum, DevOps, etc.
• Good oral and written communications.
• Demonstrates the Guinness Behaviours.

Desirable skills:

• Knowledge of Social Housing and Care Sector.
• Broad experience of system testing across a range of technology solutions including ERP, CRM, ESB, Azure, Cloud, AI, IoT, RPA, etc.
• Experience of automated, stress, performance, risk based and non-functional testing.

Essential Qualifications:

• Educated to Level 2 (C+ or 9-4 GCSE) or higher.
• ISTQB - ISEB Certified Tester Advanced Level (CFAL).

Desirable Qualifications:

• Educated to degree level in an IT/STEM related degree discipline or equivalent.
• APM / Prince2 / Agile Practitioner / Certified Scrum Master / ITIL / equivalent.

• Holidays: We offer 25 - 27 days holiday a year, plus bank holidays. We will also give you the opportunity to buy up to an additional 5 days. You will also receive additional holiday in line with your length of service (1 extra day per 5 years’ service, capped at 4 days).
• Competitive Pension Scheme: We will help you save for your retirement through our workplace pension scheme. Guinness match your contribution up to 9%. To help you get the most out of your pension contributions, we operate a salary sacrifice arrangement that means you will pay less National Insurance contributions.
• Benefits Portal: We have a lifestyle benefits scheme, pulling together a range of special offers and great deals. You can make some great savings on everyday shopping from fashion and electronics to travel, leisure and days out and weekly supermarket shopping.
• Performance Pay: Annual Performance Score bonus subject to eligibility
• Life Assurance: For peace of mind Guinness provides three times salary life cover in the event of your death
• Health Plan Options: There are a couple of health care schemes available depending on the post grade

• VDU/DSE: Free eye test vouchers every 2 years with £55 contribution to glasses if requires for VDU work Additional benefits include:

• Access to the Finance wellbeing portal
• Professional subscription annual payment
• Travel season ticket loan

The Guinness Partnership is one of the leading providers of affordable housing in England. We build and manage homes and provide housing services for nearly 160,000 residents nationwide. Our vision is to deliver great service, provide great homes, to be a great business and to be a great place to work. Because everything we do is about our residents, our communities and our people, any profit we make is re-invested in new and existing homes and improving services.