UAT & OAT Test Analyst (Azure DevOps, Jira, CI/CD, Government)
Initial 3 month contract – £350-£400 per day (outside IR35) – Fully remote
Our government client have an immediate requirement for a UAT & OAT Test Analyst (Azure DevOps, Jira, CI/CD, Government) to join on an interim basis. This role is fully remote and is outside IR35.
Due to the clients’ requirements, this role is paid monthly rather than weekly.
To be considered for this role, the candidate must have relevant and recent Government work, as a UAT & OAT Tester, working with Azure based platforms.
Key deliverables for the UAT & OAT Test Analyst (Azure DevOps, Jira, CI/CD, Government):
- UAT and OAT test plans, scenarios and acceptance criteria.
- Requirements traceability and test coverage evidence.
- Automated and manual test scripts with execution results.
- Defect logs, retest outcomes and remediation tracking.
- Operational readiness and acceptance assessments.
- Test summary reports and recommendations for go-live decisions.
- Documented outcomes supporting service transition and BAU acceptance.
Key skills and experience required for the UAT & OAT Test Analyst (Azure DevOps, Jira, CI/CD, Government):
- Proven experience delivering both UAT and OAT within complex enterprise IT environments.
- Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and structured testing methodologies.
- Experience testing cloud-hosted applications, infrastructure and services, ideally Microsoft Azure.
- Experience working within Agile, DevOps and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Practical understanding of IaC, particularly Terraform.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments.
- Experience developing, executing or maintaining automated test scripts.
- Knowledge of operational acceptance criteria, ITIL processes and service transition.
- Experience using Azure DevOps, Jira or equivalent test and defect management tools.
- Ability to produce clear, auditable evidence and communicate outcomes effectively.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
- Experience coordinating testing across multiple technical teams and suppliers
- Commercial experience operating within an Agile and DevOps environment, emphasising automation, repeatability,
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC), continuous integration and operational readiness.
- UK central government, NHS, healthcare or regulated environments.
- Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure SQL and cloud data platforms.
- Testing data pipelines, integrations, APIs and data quality.
- Kubernetes, containerisation and cloud-native infrastructure.
- GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps Pipelines.
- Jira Service Management (JSM).
- Formal service acceptance, deployment, hypercare and BAU transition.
- Security testing, operational resilience, disaster recovery and monitoring.
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