Address Overview:
Disclosure Scotland is an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government, operating on behalf of Scottish Ministers, to perform an important safeguarding role for the people of Scotland. The work of Disclosure Scotland directly supports the Scottish Government’s National Outcomes for Children and Young People, Economy, Fair Work and Business, Communities and Human Rights.
To contribute to these, Disclosure Scotland is responsible for two primary services, managing and delivering the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme and processing applications for disclosure certificates which enable safer recruitment decisions to be made by employers.
Disclosure Scotland - mygov.scot
We are at an exciting point in our journey, in terms of the services we provide and the way we provide them. Our strategy is to give the best possible service to employers and our customers, and to contribute to the wider purpose of the Scottish Government and help our Ministers deliver their plan for Scotland. We want to play an ever-better part in the network of agencies and organisations that aim to make Scotland safer, while also helping employers use our service in a more informed and evidence-led way.
The role
Disclosure Scotlands PASS system is based on a microservice architecture hosted in the AWS cloud. The main technologies used for service development are Java, Spring Boot, Jaxrs, Jackson, Docker and MariadDB. For test automation we are using Junit, Cucumber, Spring Cloud Contract and Selenium. As a Junior Test Engineer you’ll be working in agile delivery team in close collaboration with Business Analysts, Testers, Architects, Platform Engineers, UI/UX designers and Product Owners to develop DS system according to business and user needs.
DDaT Pay Supplement
This post attracts a £5,000 DDaT pay supplement after a 3 months DDaT competency qualifying period. The payment will be backdated to your start date in the role. Pay supplements are temporary payments designed to address recruitment and retention issues caused by market pressures and are subject to regular review. This post is part of the Scottish Government DDaT profession. As a member of the profession, you will join the professional development scheme, currently BCS RoleModel plus. Responsibilities:
Competencies
Self-Awareness
Provisional Interview Dates
To be confirmed.
This post will be based at Pacific Quay, Glasgow. In line with our current way of working, our team follows a hybrid working approach, where colleagues use a mix of office based and remote working (working from home) with in-office days for collaboration, workshops and other activities.
How To Apply
For further information on this vacancy please download and review the “Person Specification” which you will find below.
Person_Specification_Band_B
To apply, you must fully complete and submit an online application via this website before the closing date as well as a CV (no longer than two pages) setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements.
In addition to your CV, you should fill in a personal statement (no longer than 750 words) explaining why you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience suitable for this role, with particular reference to the essential criteria.
When considering how your experience relates to the role, please tailor your CV and personal statement to reflect the role and the essential skills/criteria as described in the job description/person specification.
To learn more about this opportunity, please contact Seweryn Bolbot at seweryn.bolbot@disclosurescotland.gov.scot
Further Information
For further information on this vacancy please download and review the below.
DDaT_Recruitment_-_Further_Information
How to Apply - Digital Jobs
The Scottish Government is a diverse and inclusive workplace and we want to help you demonstrate your full potential whatever type of assessment is used. If you require any adjustments to our recruitment process, please let us know via ScottishGovernmentrecruitment@gov.scot
As part of any recruitment process, Scottish Government and associated public bodies collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants and applicants for public appointments.
Personal information you provide in the recruitment process will be made available to Scottish Government and our additional data processors.
We're looking for a talented individual to join our team!
Disclosure Scotland is an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government, operating on behalf of Scottish Ministers, to perform an important safeguarding role for the people of Scotland. The work of Disclosure Scotland directly supports the Scottish Government’s National Outcomes for Children and Young People, Economy, Fair Work and Business, Communities and Human Rights.
To contribute to these, Disclosure Scotland is responsible for two primary services, managing and delivering the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme and processing applications for disclosure certificates which enable safer recruitment decisions to be made by employers.
Disclosure Scotland - mygov.scot
We are at an exciting point in our journey, in terms of the services we provide and the way we provide them. Our strategy is to give the best possible service to employers and our customers, and to contribute to the wider purpose of the Scottish Government and help our Ministers deliver their plan for Scotland. We want to play an ever-better part in the network of agencies and organisations that aim to make Scotland safer, while also helping employers use our service in a more informed and evidence-led way.
The role
Disclosure Scotlands PASS system is based on a microservice architecture hosted in the AWS cloud. The main technologies used for service development are Java, Spring Boot, Jaxrs, Jackson, Docker and MariadDB. For test automation we are using Junit, Cucumber, Spring Cloud Contract and Selenium. As a Junior Test Engineer you’ll be working in agile delivery team in close collaboration with Business Analysts, Testers, Architects, Platform Engineers, UI/UX designers and Product Owners to develop DS system according to business and user needs.
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DDaT Pay Supplement
This post attracts a £5,000 DDaT pay supplement after a 3 months DDaT competency qualifying period. The payment will be backdated to your start date in the role. Pay supplements are temporary payments designed to address recruitment and retention issues caused by market pressures and are subject to regular review. This post is part of the Scottish Government DDaT profession. As a member of the profession, you will join the professional development scheme, currently BCS RoleModel plus.
- Writing, debugging and refactoring test code.
- Working closely with software developers to reach a common understanding of the code base and test coverage at unit level.
- Collaborating with business analysts to make sure the required business scenarios are covered in the acceptance test scripts.
- Testing both functional and non-functional areas of an application.
- Guide your own learning to keep knowledge on tools and strategies up to date and relevant.
- Coaching and knowledge sharing with team colleagues.
Competencies
Self-Awareness
Communications and Engagement
Improving Performance
Analysis and Use of Evidence
Essential Criteria & Qualifications: No specific qualifications required for this post.
Essential Criteria
1. Experience of writing automated system test and end to end test with use of Java and/or JavaScript, Selenium or other browser automation framework, BDD test tooling (Cucumber/Gherkin) and SQL (MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle) in a Linux based environment or cloud based (AWS).
2. Experience of test automation in CI/CD pipelines and knowledge of Continuous Integration process.
3. Proven self-management abilities and experience of proactive risk based decision making.
4. Experience of bridging the gap between the technical and non-technical.
Provisional Interview Dates
To be confirmed.
Location
This post will be based at Pacific Quay, Glasgow. In line with our current way of working, our team follows a hybrid working approach, where colleagues use a mix of office based and remote working (working from home) with in-office days for collaboration, workshops and other activities.
How To Apply
For further information on this vacancy please download and review the “Person Specification” which you will find below.
Person_Specification_Band_B
To apply, you must fully complete and submit an online application via this website before the closing date as well as a CV (no longer than two pages) setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements.
In addition to your CV, you should fill in a personal statement (no longer than 750 words) explaining why you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience suitable for this role, with particular reference to the essential criteria.
When considering how your experience relates to the role, please tailor your CV and personal statement to reflect the role and the essential skills/criteria as described in the job description/person specification.
To learn more about this opportunity, please contact Seweryn Bolbot at seweryn.bolbot@disclosurescotland.gov.scot
Further Information
For further information on this vacancy please download and review the below.
DDaT_Recruitment_-_Further_Information
How to Apply - Digital Jobs
The Scottish Government is a diverse and inclusive workplace and we want to help you demonstrate your full potential whatever type of assessment is used. If you require any adjustments to our recruitment process, please let us know via ScottishGovernmentrecruitment@gov.scot
As part of any recruitment process, Scottish Government and associated public bodies collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants and applicants for public appointments.
Personal information you provide in the recruitment process will be made available to Scottish Government and our additional data processors.
