Senior Quality Engineer - MoJ - G7

We’re recruiting for Senior Quality Engineers here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative LAA Digital team. 

This role aligns against Senior Test Engineer from the Government Digital and Data Framework 

The work we do is incredibly important to some of the most vulnerable people in our society. LAA Digital seeks to provide swift access to legal aid for those who need it and ensure efficient payment to providers of those services.  

As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring that digital services are reliable, scalable, and of high quality. Working alongside a multidisciplinary team, you will adopt a strategic approach to quality, ensuring test strategies and plans mitigate risk to the business goals. You will design and execute functional and non-functional tests, design and implement test automation frameworks to assist with testing and enable quality across multiple teams. 

This is a hands-on role where you will have the opportunity to apply best practices, develop test automation, and integrate quality at every stage of development.  

The community  

You will be part of a collaborative and supportive engineering community, working with developers, product managers, user researchers, designers, business analysts, and delivery managers to embed quality into digital solutions. 

We champion continuous learning, open communication, and agile methodologies, ensuring our teams thrive in an environment that is both inclusive and transparent.  

We subscribe to the manifesto for agile software development. We’re open and transparent. We believe in building quality into our products, systems and services and that quality is everyone’s responsibility.  

To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Work in multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-impact digital services for the Legal Aid Agency. 
• Provide technical and strategic leadership for multiple product teams, ensuring alignment with service outcomes and business goals. 
• Design and develop risk-based test strategies and plans that integrate testing throughout the entire software development lifecycle. 
• Advance automation initiatives, extending and standardising automated testing solutions using appropriate tools and frameworks. 
• Enable whole-team involvement in quality assurance activities at every phase of delivery. 
• Implement shift-left testing practices, ensuring early defect detection and prevention. 
• Contribute to the wider Justice Digital engineering community, sharing knowledge, mentoring junior engineers, and promoting best practices. 
• Continuously evolve and optimise test strategies, processes, and tooling. 
• Foster effective communication around quality and testing within and beyond your teams. 
• People manage and develop other Quality Professionals, supporting their growth and career progression.  

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply! 

Benefits 

• 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours. 
• A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best in class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms  
• Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow 
• Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 28.97% from April 1st 2024 (Contribution Rates) 
• 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings’ birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service. 
• Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too! 
• Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app.  
• Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location) 
• Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers. 
• 5 days volunteering paid leave. 
• Free membership to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT. 
• Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym. 

Person Specification 

Essential 

• Overseeing testing across multiple teams and throughout the entire software development lifecycle, demonstrating both technical and test leadership. 
• Ability to communicate clearly. 
• Design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks for UI and API testing using tools such as Postman, Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright. 
• Applied automation and testing best practices, improving frameworks and delivery pipelines. 
• Advocating for quality activities in an Agile context 
• A collaborative mindset, mentoring, coaching, growing and inspiring others to adopt holistic testing practices. 
• Practical experience with non-functional testing (Performance, Security, Accessibility) and related tooling. 
• Strong understanding of shift-left principles, including CI/CD pipelines. 
• Collaborate with others to define success criteria and quality metrics to measure and demonstrate progress. 

Willingness to be assessed against  the requirements for SC clearance 

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy. 

Person specification

Please refer to attached Job Description