CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler
Wellington, Shropshire
Batch Test Specialist + 6 month initial contract + 470 to 483 per day - Inside IR35 + Hybrid working form Telford Key Sklills: + Test automation for data and analytics platforms + SC Clearable Key Responsibilities: Working as part of an Agile team participate in ceremonies and contribute to sprint planning, retrospectives, demos and reporting. Utilise strong Stakeholder Management and communication skills to collaborate with developers, DevOps engineers, and Business Analysts to ensure test coverage aligns with business requirements and technical specifications Ensure that appropriate automation tooling is implemented and utilised to meet business and technical needs. Design and implement automation test strategies and plans for SAS Viya 4 applications, for UI based Visual Analytics (VA) and Intelligent Decisioning (ID), as well as for integration testing of data pipelines. Develop and maintain test scripts using appropriate automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, PyTest, JUnit) and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines. Confirm the test data strategy to be used Maintain and evolve the test automation suite to support regression, performance, and integration testing. Support the integration of test automation into Git-based CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI). Troubleshoot and resolve issues in test environments, including SAS Viya containerized deployments (e.g., OpenShift, Kubernetes). Contribute to test data management and environment provisioning strategies Ensure that appropriate defect management is undertaken Ensure results and progress are clearly articulated to relevant stakeholders. Essential Skills & Experience: Proven experience in: Working in a collaborative agile environment Test automation for data and analytics platforms, ideally including SAS Viya 4. Assuring the appropriate tool selection for both business and technical needs Setting the strategy and approach for both UI and System Integration based automation Knowledge of REST API's and testing API endpoints Scripting skills in Python, Shell, or similar languages and associated frameworks Experience with CI/CD tools and version control systems (e.g., Git, Jenkins, GitLab). Data Management and profiling Setting test direction for the automation team Strong Communication and Stakeholder Management skills Strong Problem-solving skills and attention to detail Preferred Experience: Familiarity with SAS Viya architecture and components (VA, ID, CAS etc) Understanding of containerized environments and orchestration tools (e.g Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)
Batch Test Specialist + 6 month initial contract + 470 to 483 per day - Inside IR35 + Hybrid working form Telford Key Sklills: + Test automation for data and analytics platforms + SC Clearable Key Responsibilities: Working as part of an Agile team participate in ceremonies and contribute to sprint planning, retrospectives, demos and reporting. Utilise strong Stakeholder Management and communication skills to collaborate with developers, DevOps engineers, and Business Analysts to ensure test coverage aligns with business requirements and technical specifications Ensure that appropriate automation tooling is implemented and utilised to meet business and technical needs. Design and implement automation test strategies and plans for SAS Viya 4 applications, for UI based Visual Analytics (VA) and Intelligent Decisioning (ID), as well as for integration testing of data pipelines. Develop and maintain test scripts using appropriate automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, PyTest, JUnit) and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines. Confirm the test data strategy to be used Maintain and evolve the test automation suite to support regression, performance, and integration testing. Support the integration of test automation into Git-based CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI). Troubleshoot and resolve issues in test environments, including SAS Viya containerized deployments (e.g., OpenShift, Kubernetes). Contribute to test data management and environment provisioning strategies Ensure that appropriate defect management is undertaken Ensure results and progress are clearly articulated to relevant stakeholders. Essential Skills & Experience: Proven experience in: Working in a collaborative agile environment Test automation for data and analytics platforms, ideally including SAS Viya 4. Assuring the appropriate tool selection for both business and technical needs Setting the strategy and approach for both UI and System Integration based automation Knowledge of REST API's and testing API endpoints Scripting skills in Python, Shell, or similar languages and associated frameworks Experience with CI/CD tools and version control systems (e.g., Git, Jenkins, GitLab). Data Management and profiling Setting test direction for the automation team Strong Communication and Stakeholder Management skills Strong Problem-solving skills and attention to detail Preferred Experience: Familiarity with SAS Viya architecture and components (VA, ID, CAS etc) Understanding of containerized environments and orchestration tools (e.g Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)
Government Digital & Data
Location Birmingham Regional Centre - Arena Central Cardiff Regional Centre - Ty William Morgan Edinburgh Regional Centre - Queen Elizabeth House Leeds Regional Centre - Wellington Place Manchester Regional Centre - Three New Bailey Telford - Plaza 1 and 2 Worthing - Teville Gate House Stratford Regional Centre - Westfield Avenue About the job Job summary Discover a career in your hands at HMRC. Whether you're seeking purpose, growth, or a workplace that gives you a true sense of belonging, hear from some of our employees as they share their story about what it's really like to work at HMRC. Visit our YouTube channel to watch the full series and come and discover your potential. Here in HMRC's Chief Digital & Information Group (CDIO) we're increasingly delivering in-house through our growing network of digital delivery centres - hi-tech, innovative facilities across the UK. We are a small, agile team within our Chief Technology and Design Office that focus on Technical Innovation. Our objective isn't necessarily what we can change tomorrow, but the longer-term improvement of the UK tax system. We work to understand and solve problems, proposing innovative solutions through continuous exploration. Tracking emerging technology and market changes, Innovation maintains a future technology focus, with an enviable remit to proactively demonstrate the art of the possible, seeking to tackle challenges at source by 'designing out problems' with new technology, improved processes, user-centred design and innovative solutions. Job description As key member of our multidisciplinary Innovation Team, you'll work alongside User Researchers, Analysts, Designers, Product Managers, Software Developers, Architects, policy, innovation and technology specialists. As a team, you'll develop innovative approaches for digital products that are part of end-to-end services across HMRC and government. This is an exciting opportunity to make real changes for HMRC and our customers through innovation and to join our Architecture community supporting a large-scale dynamic transformation that has profound impact both on customers and our staff. Proactive and reactive to changing opportunities, you'll have the skill to interpret and react to small, medium and large-scale challenges, and the vision to identify potential and future opportunities. By using emerging technology, data, and considering user needs, you'll develop innovative concepts and solutions, supporting Innovation colleagues with technical and architecture expertise. You'll test the art of the possible by designing proof of concepts to test solutions for future services, working with internal groups, third parties, external suppliers and academia to develop concepts and MVPs. You'll run proof of value exercises to support concepts by demonstrating customer and HMRC impact. You'll contribute to business cases and make compelling recommendations for future direction, delivering these to senior partners to influence policy and strategy. You will be an expert Technical Architect, able to investigate, design and develop solutions to technology challenges in a fast-paced, collaborative, multidisciplinary Innovation Team. You will Rapidly develop an understanding of technologies in use and the overall architecture strategy. Work closely with Innovation scrum teams, business partners and IT colleagues to design innovative but appropriate solutions that demonstrate that new technology and approaches can deliver improvements, ensuring operational delivery and that they fit with strategic end-to-end functional design. Be flexible and self-motivated, have a keen eye for detail and a solid focus on quality. Have a good track record in delivering customer-focused technology change and be able to articulate technical detail to non-technical people, so it is understood. Be credible, influential and a team-player. A confident communicator with good interpersonal skills. Be comfortable working creatively in a "fail fast" manner on inception and discovery projects, where scope and concept are not clearly defined or understood and without relying on defined process or established requirements. Person specification We are looking for a Senior Technical Architect who has experience of Leading technical discussions between internal teams and external stakeholders, clearly communicating concepts and driving continuous improvement. Evaluating products/tools and providing enterprise appropriate recommendations. Developing an understanding of user needs, to design user-centred technical service propositions. Identifying business problems and recommending technical solutions and designs. Undertaking structural analysis of technical issues, translating this analysis into technical designs that describe a solution. Building collaborative relationships with partners across teams and services. Articulating technical requirements and implications compellingly to technical and non-technical colleagues, senior leaders, business partners and customers. Working with innovators to design aspirational concepts for future services and processes. Mentoring colleagues. Essential Criteria Governing high and low-level designs with full lifecycle management, from requirements management to supporting the operations teams with service introduction. Effective communication with colleagues, business partners, customers and senior leaders. You are skilled at proactive and reactive communication. Bridging the gap between the technical and non-technical with the ability to translate technical concepts, so they are understood by all. Technical governance and delivering the assurance of a service. Making and guiding effective decisions, explaining clearly how the decision has been reached. Applying strategy for technology that meets business and customer needs with the ability to create, refine and challenge standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements. Working with business and technology partners to translate business problems into technical designs. You can work across multiple services or a single large or complicated service. Understanding trends and practices outside your team and organisation, their potential impact and how they can fit into broader strategy. Looking beyond the immediate technical problem and identifying wider implications, understanding the broad context. Desirable Criteria Software development and technical architecture. Knowledge of innovative and emerging technologies (e.g. Artificial Intelligence, Geospatial and Synthetic Data, Cryptocurrencies, Open Banking etc.) Cloud computing knowledge and experience designing and implementing (e.g. AWS/Azure/Google or Hybrid) based. Agile methodologies and principles. Transitional Sites For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations . If your location preference is for one of the following sites, it's important to note that these are not long-term sites for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time. These sites are: Telford Plaza, Telford - moving to Parkside Court, Telford You will be given more information about what this means at the job offer stage
Location Birmingham Regional Centre - Arena Central Cardiff Regional Centre - Ty William Morgan Edinburgh Regional Centre - Queen Elizabeth House Leeds Regional Centre - Wellington Place Manchester Regional Centre - Three New Bailey Telford - Plaza 1 and 2 Worthing - Teville Gate House Stratford Regional Centre - Westfield Avenue About the job Job summary Discover a career in your hands at HMRC. Whether you're seeking purpose, growth, or a workplace that gives you a true sense of belonging, hear from some of our employees as they share their story about what it's really like to work at HMRC. Visit our YouTube channel to watch the full series and come and discover your potential. Here in HMRC's Chief Digital & Information Group (CDIO) we're increasingly delivering in-house through our growing network of digital delivery centres - hi-tech, innovative facilities across the UK. We are a small, agile team within our Chief Technology and Design Office that focus on Technical Innovation. Our objective isn't necessarily what we can change tomorrow, but the longer-term improvement of the UK tax system. We work to understand and solve problems, proposing innovative solutions through continuous exploration. Tracking emerging technology and market changes, Innovation maintains a future technology focus, with an enviable remit to proactively demonstrate the art of the possible, seeking to tackle challenges at source by 'designing out problems' with new technology, improved processes, user-centred design and innovative solutions. Job description As key member of our multidisciplinary Innovation Team, you'll work alongside User Researchers, Analysts, Designers, Product Managers, Software Developers, Architects, policy, innovation and technology specialists. As a team, you'll develop innovative approaches for digital products that are part of end-to-end services across HMRC and government. This is an exciting opportunity to make real changes for HMRC and our customers through innovation and to join our Architecture community supporting a large-scale dynamic transformation that has profound impact both on customers and our staff. Proactive and reactive to changing opportunities, you'll have the skill to interpret and react to small, medium and large-scale challenges, and the vision to identify potential and future opportunities. By using emerging technology, data, and considering user needs, you'll develop innovative concepts and solutions, supporting Innovation colleagues with technical and architecture expertise. You'll test the art of the possible by designing proof of concepts to test solutions for future services, working with internal groups, third parties, external suppliers and academia to develop concepts and MVPs. You'll run proof of value exercises to support concepts by demonstrating customer and HMRC impact. You'll contribute to business cases and make compelling recommendations for future direction, delivering these to senior partners to influence policy and strategy. You will be an expert Technical Architect, able to investigate, design and develop solutions to technology challenges in a fast-paced, collaborative, multidisciplinary Innovation Team. You will Rapidly develop an understanding of technologies in use and the overall architecture strategy. Work closely with Innovation scrum teams, business partners and IT colleagues to design innovative but appropriate solutions that demonstrate that new technology and approaches can deliver improvements, ensuring operational delivery and that they fit with strategic end-to-end functional design. Be flexible and self-motivated, have a keen eye for detail and a solid focus on quality. Have a good track record in delivering customer-focused technology change and be able to articulate technical detail to non-technical people, so it is understood. Be credible, influential and a team-player. A confident communicator with good interpersonal skills. Be comfortable working creatively in a "fail fast" manner on inception and discovery projects, where scope and concept are not clearly defined or understood and without relying on defined process or established requirements. Person specification We are looking for a Senior Technical Architect who has experience of Leading technical discussions between internal teams and external stakeholders, clearly communicating concepts and driving continuous improvement. Evaluating products/tools and providing enterprise appropriate recommendations. Developing an understanding of user needs, to design user-centred technical service propositions. Identifying business problems and recommending technical solutions and designs. Undertaking structural analysis of technical issues, translating this analysis into technical designs that describe a solution. Building collaborative relationships with partners across teams and services. Articulating technical requirements and implications compellingly to technical and non-technical colleagues, senior leaders, business partners and customers. Working with innovators to design aspirational concepts for future services and processes. Mentoring colleagues. Essential Criteria Governing high and low-level designs with full lifecycle management, from requirements management to supporting the operations teams with service introduction. Effective communication with colleagues, business partners, customers and senior leaders. You are skilled at proactive and reactive communication. Bridging the gap between the technical and non-technical with the ability to translate technical concepts, so they are understood by all. Technical governance and delivering the assurance of a service. Making and guiding effective decisions, explaining clearly how the decision has been reached. Applying strategy for technology that meets business and customer needs with the ability to create, refine and challenge standards, policies, roadmaps and vision statements. Working with business and technology partners to translate business problems into technical designs. You can work across multiple services or a single large or complicated service. Understanding trends and practices outside your team and organisation, their potential impact and how they can fit into broader strategy. Looking beyond the immediate technical problem and identifying wider implications, understanding the broad context. Desirable Criteria Software development and technical architecture. Knowledge of innovative and emerging technologies (e.g. Artificial Intelligence, Geospatial and Synthetic Data, Cryptocurrencies, Open Banking etc.) Cloud computing knowledge and experience designing and implementing (e.g. AWS/Azure/Google or Hybrid) based. Agile methodologies and principles. Transitional Sites For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations . If your location preference is for one of the following sites, it's important to note that these are not long-term sites for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time. These sites are: Telford Plaza, Telford - moving to Parkside Court, Telford You will be given more information about what this means at the job offer stage
CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler
Wellington, Shropshire
Test Automation Specialists x 3 + 6 month initial contract + 470 to 483 per day - Inside IR35 + Hybrid working form Telford Key Sklills: + Test automation for data and analytics platforms + SC Clearable Key Responsibilities: Working as part of an Agile team participate in ceremonies and contribute to sprint planning, retrospectives, demos and reporting. Utilise strong Stakeholder Management and communication skills to collaborate with developers, DevOps engineers, and Business Analysts to ensure test coverage aligns with business requirements and technical specifications Ensure that appropriate automation tooling is implemented and utilised to meet business and technical needs. Design and implement automation test strategies and plans for SAS Viya 4 applications, for UI based Visual Analytics (VA) and Intelligent Decisioning (ID), as well as for integration testing of data pipelines. Develop and maintain test scripts using appropriate automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, PyTest, JUnit) and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines. Confirm the test data strategy to be used Maintain and evolve the test automation suite to support regression, performance, and integration testing. Support the integration of test automation into Git-based CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI). Troubleshoot and resolve issues in test environments, including SAS Viya containerized deployments (e.g., OpenShift, Kubernetes). Contribute to test data management and environment provisioning strategies Ensure that appropriate defect management is undertaken Ensure results and progress are clearly articulated to relevant stakeholders. Essential Skills & Experience: Proven experience in: Working in a collaborative agile environment Test automation for data and analytics platforms, ideally including SAS Viya 4. Assuring the appropriate tool selection for both business and technical needs Setting the strategy and approach for both UI and System Integration based automation Knowledge of REST API's and testing API endpoints Scripting skills in Python, Shell, or similar languages and associated frameworks Experience with CI/CD tools and version control systems (e.g., Git, Jenkins, GitLab). Data Management and profiling Setting test direction for the automation team Strong Communication and Stakeholder Management skills Strong Problem-solving skills and attention to detail Preferred Experience: Familiarity with SAS Viya architecture and components (VA, ID, CAS etc) Understanding of containerized environments and orchestration tools (e.g Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)
Test Automation Specialists x 3 + 6 month initial contract + 470 to 483 per day - Inside IR35 + Hybrid working form Telford Key Sklills: + Test automation for data and analytics platforms + SC Clearable Key Responsibilities: Working as part of an Agile team participate in ceremonies and contribute to sprint planning, retrospectives, demos and reporting. Utilise strong Stakeholder Management and communication skills to collaborate with developers, DevOps engineers, and Business Analysts to ensure test coverage aligns with business requirements and technical specifications Ensure that appropriate automation tooling is implemented and utilised to meet business and technical needs. Design and implement automation test strategies and plans for SAS Viya 4 applications, for UI based Visual Analytics (VA) and Intelligent Decisioning (ID), as well as for integration testing of data pipelines. Develop and maintain test scripts using appropriate automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, PyTest, JUnit) and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines. Confirm the test data strategy to be used Maintain and evolve the test automation suite to support regression, performance, and integration testing. Support the integration of test automation into Git-based CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI). Troubleshoot and resolve issues in test environments, including SAS Viya containerized deployments (e.g., OpenShift, Kubernetes). Contribute to test data management and environment provisioning strategies Ensure that appropriate defect management is undertaken Ensure results and progress are clearly articulated to relevant stakeholders. Essential Skills & Experience: Proven experience in: Working in a collaborative agile environment Test automation for data and analytics platforms, ideally including SAS Viya 4. Assuring the appropriate tool selection for both business and technical needs Setting the strategy and approach for both UI and System Integration based automation Knowledge of REST API's and testing API endpoints Scripting skills in Python, Shell, or similar languages and associated frameworks Experience with CI/CD tools and version control systems (e.g., Git, Jenkins, GitLab). Data Management and profiling Setting test direction for the automation team Strong Communication and Stakeholder Management skills Strong Problem-solving skills and attention to detail Preferred Experience: Familiarity with SAS Viya architecture and components (VA, ID, CAS etc) Understanding of containerized environments and orchestration tools (e.g Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)
