Quality assurance test analyst
Quality assurance test analysts check that the organisation's digital health services do what patients, clinicians, and care staff need, safely and reliably. They analyse requirements and designs to find risks early, design and run functional and non-functional tests, and report defects clearly. In health care this includes testing clinical workflows, data accuracy, and the controls that protect patients from harm.
- UK GDaD PCF role
- Quality assurance test analyst (Quality assurance testing (QAT))
- ESCO occupations
- ICT test analyst (ISCO-08 2519)
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Levels
| Band | Role level | UK GDaD PCF level | Civil Service grades | Job evaluation points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Associate quality assurance test analyst | Associate quality assurance test analyst | EO | 275 |
| 5 | Quality assurance test analyst | Quality assurance test analyst | HEO/SEO | 327 |
| 6 | Senior quality assurance test analyst | Senior quality assurance test analyst | HEO/SEO | 404 |
| 8a | Lead quality assurance test analyst | Lead quality assurance test analyst | G7/G6 | 543 |
In a digital health care organisation
- Defects in clinical systems can harm patients, for example through a wrong medication dose, a missed result, or a record shown for the wrong patient, so testing is prioritised by clinical risk.
- Testing provides evidence for clinical safety cases and hazard logs, so test plans trace to identified hazards and their controls.
- Test data must never expose real patients, so analysts use synthetic or properly de-identified test data.
- Many services exchange data with other health and care systems, so tests check messages against standards such as HL7 FHIR and the meaning of clinical codes.
- Users include clinicians under time pressure, patients with a wide range of needs, and assistive technology users, so usability and accessibility testing matter.
UK GDaD PCF role description
A quality assurance test analyst interprets testing needs, creating and executing appropriate tests to ensure quality and alignment with requirements.
In this role, you will:
- plan, design and execute tests
- apply testing techniques and standards to learn about systems and mitigate risk
- analyse artefacts and prototypes
- test outcomes and record defects
- seek to improve testing practices to enhance quality and reliability
- recommend testing approaches
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ICT test analyst
ICT test analysts work in testing environments, assessing products, checking for quality and accuracy, or creating tests scripts. They design tests which are then implemented by testers.
Essential skills and knowledge (9)
Skills and competences
- address problems critically
- develop ICT test suite
- execute software tests
- plan software testing
- provide software testing documentation
- replicate customer software issues
- report test findings
- set quality assurance objectives
Knowledge
Optional skills and knowledge (27)
Skills and competences
- apply statistical analysis techniques
- conduct ICT code review
- debug software
- develop automated software tests
- give live presentation
- manage schedule of tasks
- measure software usability
- perform quality audits
- perform software recovery testing
- use scripting programming
Knowledge
- Agile project management
- ICT debugging tools
- ICT performance analysis methods
- ICT project management methodologies
- LDAP
- LINQ
- MDX
- N1QL
- Process-based management
- SPARQL
- XQuery
- decision support systems
- lean project management
- query languages
- resource description framework query language
- tools for ICT test automation
- visual presentation techniques
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