Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy
Tester for Analytical Platform
11 Incomplete applications
10 SME, 1 large
49 Completed applications
44 SME, 5 large
Important dates
- Published
- Friday 13 March 2020
- Deadline for asking questions
- Tuesday 17 March 2020 at 11:59pm GMT
- Closing date for applications
- Friday 20 March 2020 at 11:59pm GMT
Overview
- Specialist role
- Quality assurance analyst
- Summary of the work
- Opportunity to build a testing environment and process for cloud based analytical platform
- Latest start date
- Monday 23 March 2020
- Expected contract length
- up to 18 months
- Location
- London
- Organisation the work is for
- Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy
- Maximum day rate
- up to £525 per day, with a total approved budget up to £173.3k.
About the work
- Early market engagement
- Who the specialist will work with
- The team is embedded with the Analytical community and serves other external departments, but all users are Analysts (Statisticians, Economists, Operational Researchers and Social Researchers).
- What the specialist will work on
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1. Develop & document functional test procedures for new production builds for the analytical platform
2. Develop & document non-functional test of the analytical system.
3. Conduct User Acceptance testing of enhancements and new functionailty.
Work setup
- Address where the work will take place
- Westminster, London.
- Working arrangements
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On-site 5 days a week.
meetings with users and teams in London offices - Security clearance
- Willing to undergo Security Clearance (SC)
Additional information
- Additional terms and conditions
Skills and experience
Buyers will use the essential and nice-to-have skills and experience to help them evaluate suppliers’ technical competence.
- Essential skills and experience
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- Experience of developing functional tests within window & linux build environments- 12 points
- Experience of developing non-functional for systems that are based on cloud (public and private) - 12 points
- Experience of working with users to conduct user acceptance testing. - 12 points
- Experience of working in cloud environment (both public and private) - 6 points
- Experience of reporting results and recommendation to senior management - 6 points
- Nice-to-have skills and experience
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- Experience of working with on-premise and cloud analytical tools such as PowerBi,SAS, SPSS and NHM - 6 points
- Experience of working with government analyst, such as statisticians or economists - 6 point
- Experience of working with BAU/Support team to help them improve process - 6 points
How suppliers will be evaluated
All suppliers will be asked to provide a work history.
- How many specialists to evaluate
- 3
- Cultural fit criteria
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- Able to work in a small multi-skilled team (less than 10) - 6 points
- Willing to help develop other colleagues' capability - 3 points
- Able to communicate complex solutions in a simple manner for non-technical users - 6 points
- Additional assessment methods
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- Reference
- Interview
- Evaluation weighting
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Technical competence
50%Cultural fit
20%Price
30%
Questions asked by suppliers
- 1. Is there an incumbent currently in this role?
- No
- 2. What is the IR35 status
- This role is outside IR35
- 3. Is SC clearance required before starting the job.
- no.
- 4. Which tools are being used for testing currently?
- Currently no automation tools being used.
- 5. Could you detail out technical landscape in terms of storage & analytical technologies used?
- No.We expect the tester not to be embedded to any analytical technologies.
- 6. Are you looking for a system tester with functional knowledge or a performance tester?
- We are looking for an all-round tester, capable of functional and performance testing
- 7. Is the latest date of 23/03/20 correct?
- We would like the the tester to start as soon as possible. The 23rd deadline is not set in stone but indicates our urgency.
- 8. Is there any testing involved related to commandline/shell scripting ?(Specific to Linux)
- The platform is a mixed environment, working on windows and linux. Testing will be required on both environments
- 9. For the functional testing are you anticipating manual, automation or a combination of both. If a combination what kind of split are you anticipating, what automation skills would you like to see?
- We expect the bulk of testing to be manual, automation when possible.
- 10. What cloud based analytic platform are you using and would like this person to have experience in
- We require a tester who is not bound a particular platform.
- 11. Does the all-in rate incluse VAT
- This rate doesn't include VAT.