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Testing

Testing involves ensuring that requirements have been fully met by using appropriate tools and techniques to verify that a product or service works.

Quoted from the UK GDaD PCF.

Levels

1. Awareness

You can:

  • correctly execute test scripts under supervision
  • understand the role of testing and how it works
2. Working

You can:

  • review requirements and specifications, and define test conditions
  • identify issues and risks associated with work
  • analyse and report test activities and results
3. Practitioner

You can:

  • manage the planning of system and acceptance tests, co-ordinating both functional and non-functional specifications
  • provide authoritative advice and guidance on test planning
  • identify process improvements and contribute to the definition of best practice
4. Expert

You can:

  • manage testing activities within development or integration activities
  • manage risks and take preventative action when risks become unacceptable
  • manage customer relations

Contains public sector information from the UK Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (https://understand-digital-data-roles-skills.service.gov.uk/), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright.

Closest ESCO skills

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Role levels that expect this skill

Role levelRoleBandExpected level
Junior accessibility specialistAccessibility specialist5Awareness
Accessibility specialistAccessibility specialist6Working
Senior accessibility specialistAccessibility specialist7Expert
Head of accessibilityAccessibility specialist8bPractitioner
Trainee analytics engineerAnalytics engineer4Awareness
Analytics engineerAnalytics engineer6Awareness
Senior analytics engineerAnalytics engineer7Working
Lead analytics engineerAnalytics engineer8aWorking
Head of analytics engineeringAnalytics engineer8cWorking
Application operations engineerApplication operations engineer5Awareness
Senior application operations engineerApplication operations engineer6Working
Lead application operations engineerApplication operations engineer7Practitioner
Principal application operations engineerApplication operations engineer8bExpert
End user computing engineerEnd user computing engineer5Awareness
Senior end user computing engineerEnd user computing engineer6Working
Lead end user computing engineerEnd user computing engineer7Practitioner
Principal end user computing engineerEnd user computing engineer8bExpert
Infrastructure engineerInfrastructure engineer6Awareness
Senior infrastructure engineerInfrastructure engineer7Working
Lead infrastructure engineerInfrastructure engineer8aPractitioner
Principal infrastructure engineerInfrastructure engineer8bExpert
Junior integration engineerIntegration engineer (health interoperability)5Working