Senior Test Engineer - DWP - G7

Are you an experienced Test Engineer, with a passion for innovation and solving complex problems to accomplish significant change and transformation?

Would you love the opportunity to transform products and services that impact some of the most vulnerable citizens?  Then get in touch!

We’re looking for outstanding Senior Test Engineers, who want to contribute to exciting digital services for the UK Government.

Testing and assuring our services is fundamental to the overall success of our services.

Your involvement in designing and building automated robust test solutions will enable the department to deliver quality services that meet our users’ needs and expectations.

You will need excellent attention to detail, a commitment to quality, a belief in the benefits of faster feedback and the ability to make decisions to manage well assured services.

You will collaborate with others, actively seek input from colleagues and value a multidisciplinary team over hierarchy.

The successful candidate will work within DWP Digital agile teams to support the delivery of accessible user centred designed services to both citizen and DWP colleagues.

Job description

As a Senior Test Engineer, you will: 

• Provide technical and strategic leadership for multiple Test Engineers in product teams.
• Proactively share knowledge, solutions and support our internal communities along with mentoring, coaching, and supporting your peers.
• Drive the identification of tooling and solutions to aid constant improvements, ensuring we build the right product in the right way.
• Ensure that usability, accessibility, security, stability, and capacity are embedded in the development of services.
• Lead reviews of test practices and be willing to challenge assumptions and current processes to help us improve. Reusing and evolving our strategies and tooling.
• Share and build on your experience in building automated test solutions and your knowledge of using industry standard automated testing tools.
• Work alongside other Test Engineers as well as both Software and DevOps engineers within the teams around you and the wider community to deliver consistent solutions and strategies.
• Lead the adoptions of Continuous Integration/Delivery pipelines to run a full range of tests against our products and assure our builds.
• Have line management responsibility for Test Engineers on your teams.

Person specification

When giving details in your CV you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below:

• Experience leading testing across multiple teams in the lifecycle from understanding business needs to delivery into production. Including technical leadership, test generation, reporting and defect management. 
• Demonstrable skills in a modern programming language and software testing practices and aptitude to learn more.
• Experience building and maintaining comprehensive, robust, and reliable automated tests against UI’s and API’s including driving improvements to frameworks.
• Adaptable team player who understands agile ways of working, can influence others and has experience of shift left principles including CI/CD.
• Experience of conducting and enabling non-functional testing such as Performance, Security and Accessibility – including test types, test tools, and standards.

If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact richard.hanley@dwp.gov.uk.

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Leading testing across multiple teams in the lifecycle from understanding business needs to delivery into production.