Roles and skills Digital health care job roles reference
Illustrative Reference profiles for a generic digital health care organization, not official job descriptions. About this reference.

Quality assurance testing

3 roles. Aligned with the UK GDaD PCF Quality assurance testing (QAT) family.

Quality assurance test analyst

Quality assurance test analysts check that the organization's digital health services do what patients, clinicians, and care staff need, safely and reliably. They analyze 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.

  1. Band 4 Associate quality assurance test analyst
  2. Band 5 Quality assurance test analyst
  3. Band 6 Senior quality assurance test analyst
  4. Band 8a Lead quality assurance test analyst

Test engineer

Test engineers build the automated tests, tools, and frameworks that let teams test the organization's digital health services quickly and often. They write code to test functions, integrations, performance, security, and resilience, and build testing into delivery pipelines, so that changes to clinical and patient-facing systems can be released safely.

  1. Band 4 Associate test engineer
  2. Band 6 Test engineer
  3. Band 7 Senior test engineer
  4. Band 8a Lead test engineer

Test manager

Test managers plan, lead, and assure testing for the organization's digital health services and programs. They decide how much testing is needed and of what kind, manage test teams, environments, and suppliers, and tell decision makers clearly what risks remain before a service goes live. In health care this includes making sure testing supports the clinical safety case and any regulatory requirements.

  1. Band 7 Test manager
  2. Band 8c Head of test