Assistant

286172BR

Digital UAT Assistant - Boots UK - FTC

Nottingham, Nottingham Support Office

Fixed Term

Full-time

Job Description

Role: Digital UAT Assistant - Boots UK
Contract: 12m FTC
Shift pattern: Full Time
Location: Nottingham – 5 days in the Office
Recruitment Partner: Matthew Nelligan

What you'll be doing
Join the Boots Digital Implementation team in Nottingham and help protect the quality of digital experiences used by customers across web and mobile. As a UAT Assistant, you’ll support the Digital Assistant Release Manager with User Acceptance Testing, exploratory testing and regression testing across multiple environments, helping releases land smoothly and with the customer journey firmly in focus.
This is a hands-on role in a busy agile release environment, where you’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to understand what’s changing, test what matters, and raise risks early. You’ll play an important part in supporting high-impact feature launches, peak trading events and go-live activity across Boots’ digital estate.

Key responsibilities

• Carry out UAT, exploratory and regression testing across Boots web and mobile platforms.
• Work with cross-functional teams to understand release scope, requirements and customer impact.
• Validate customer journeys across multiple test environments, identifying issues before changes go live.
• Raise, track and retest defects, keeping the Digital Implementation team updated throughout the testing lifecycle.
• Communicate risks, issues and impediments promptly to support clear release decisions.
• Support out-of-hours testing when required, including go-live activity, overnight deployments and occasional weekend work.
• Build knowledge of the systems, tools and integrations that support Boots’ customer-facing digital services.
• Provide testing support across a range of digital release platforms within the wider Digital Implementation team.
• Support peak trading events, feature launches and other business-critical digital activity.
• Contribute ideas that improve testing quality, efficiency and the customer experience.
• What you'll need to have (our must-haves)
• Foundation ISTQB qualification.
• Strong understanding of testing principles and practical experience across a range of testing disciplines.
• Hands-on experience testing web and mobile applications or digital products.
• Confidence identifying defects, patterns and trends, and using that insight to improve quality.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain risks and issues clearly.
• Experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced agile environment.
• Proficiency with JIRA and Confluence.
• Ability to manage your workload independently, work to tight deadlines and support occasional overnight or weekend release activity when business needs require.
• Comfortable working on-site in Nottingham.

It would be great if you also have

• Experience in retail, e-commerce or another customer-facing digital environment.
• Previous exposure to release support, go-live testing or peak trading events.
• A proactive approach to continuous improvement, with ideas for making testing clearer, faster or more effective.
• Curiosity about how systems, integrations and customer journeys connect across a large digital estate.
• Confidence balancing structured test execution with exploratory thinking when release timelines are moving quickly.

Where your brilliance can take you
This role gives you the chance to build deeper experience across digital testing, release activity and customer-facing platforms at one of the UK’s most recognised retail brands. You’ll learn from a supportive Digital Implementation team, gain exposure to a wide range of systems and stakeholders, and use your voice to help shape better testing practices as Boots continues its digital transformation.
At Boots, we believe in giving people the trust, support and opportunity to grow. If you’re collaborative, curious and ready to take ownership in a busy release environment, this is a brilliant opportunity to develop your testing career while making a real difference for customers and colleagues.

Rewards

• Rewards designed for you
• Boots Retirement Savings Plan
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Generous employee discounts
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
• Flexible benefits scheme including option to buy additional holiday, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and much more.
• Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.

There’s lots more in our benefits and discounts, MyBoosts – there to give you that little lift in your everyday. Find out more at http://boots.jobs/rewards. Exclusions may apply; eligible roles only. Please note that any salary estimates provided on third-party sites are not endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.

A bit about us
At Boots, we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer, creating a place where everyone feels welcome, supported and free to be themselves. We believe that when our people feel valued and included, they thrive, so we're committed to creating a brilliant Boots for our people so they can make a difference for our customers and colleagues every time.

What’s next?

If you apply, our team will be in touch to let you know the outcome of your application or to arrange next steps. Where a role is advertised as full-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you be at your best.
Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.

We hope to hear from you soon.

Be brilliant with Boots.

Closing date

13-Nov-2026

Business Area

Support Office

Function

Digital

Shift pattern

Full time - weekdays

Keywords

UAT, Coding, testing

Hours per week

37.5

Latitude,longitude 1

52.927182,-1.183948

Airport

No

Should this appear on the No7 Beauty Company website?

No

Company

Non Stores

Division

Non Stores

Should this vacancy be excluded from being posted onto the Boots.jobs career site?

No

Region

East Midlands

Area

East Midlands (non stores)

Store

Nottingham Support Office

Req Posted Date

27-Oct-2026

County

Nottinghamshire

Country

UK

Address 1

Recruitment Service Centre (D94)

Address 2

Thane Road

Address 3

Nottingham

Post Code

NG90 1BS

Source

Boots