Lead Test Engineer - DWP - G6

The successful candidates will work directly in either our Engineering Excellence Team or Debt Digital programme to deliver a major change programme.

Engineering Excellence team works as a multi-disciplinary team that owns a backlog to deliver common, re-usable technical assets that accelerate and enable engineering delivery across the wider organisation.

Our Debt Digital Programme is a transformative major change programme within DWP delivered by multi-functional teams, in varying stages of development.

Both roles will help shape the medium to long-term engineering strategies for centralised, reusable quality products and components that accelerate engineering delivery across DWP as a whole or DWP Debt Digital, meeting expectations of citizens managing their finances via online channels.

These roles will suit an engineer who is excellent at resolving technical blockers, understand wider testing principles in Agile and namely Microservice Architecture. They will be proactively engaging with the wider engineering community to drive consistency and adoption of strategic engineering solutions and standard that build a quality outcome. The role will require hands on testing engineering and leadership skills.

Job description

• Oversee, influence, support and coach a large number of diverse multi-disciplinary teams involved in building, testing, delivering and maintaining solutions driving consistency, standards, and quality, resolving technical blockers, and promoting reuse and collaboration.
• Excellent problem solver, able to consider the bigger picture for the benefit of the wider team and community, who is adapts and is a fast learner.
• Possess an excellent ability to self-organise, lead others and define priorities with effective interaction with stakeholders in all directions.
• Own test planning and identify risks, issues and dependencies (external and internal) in a complex environment and ensure appropriate resources, skills and plans are in place.
• Has a hands-on understanding of test engineering and the leadership knowledge and skills to help shape the medium to long term Engineering Practice or Debt Digital quality strategies.
• Promote engagement with continuous integration, delivery and deployment practices and has comprehensive experience on Agile and Waterfall delivery principles, methodology and tools.
• Shape solutions that make effective use of multiple languages, test tools and frameworks, around UI/PI etc, alongside cloud-native technology such as Kubernetes, Containers, GitLab CI/CD, AWS & Azure.