Test Engineer - HM Courts and Tribunals Service - HEO

The Test Engineer reports to the Senior Test Manager and plays a key role in ensuring that products are of quality and fit for the business needs. Without the input of the Test Engineer, software can be released with poor quality and potential bugs that can impact HMCTS’s reputation, have significant cost implications on the business and HMCTS and most importantly people using the service/product. You will be assigned to Digital and Technology Services Tooling Team where you will be managing within their functional work area and alerting the Senior Test Manager of emerging issues and trends that have a wider impact across HMCTS. The role will demand the use of discretion, interpretation, and collaboration to identify and evaluate risks that emerge from testing and communicating them effectively to the Senior Test Manager so that these risks can be mitigated.

Key Responsibilities:

• Complete test scripts in accordance to acceptance criteria and requirements to tight deadlines.
• Manage full traceability of defects, tests and requirements. Report issues found through the appropriate channels.
• Promote test-driven development and shift-left testing, champion test practices, provide advice to other stakeholders on the different types of tests, testing tools and testing environments available.
• Analyse the test results to identify simple patterns and trends. Investigate problems and opportunities in existing functionality of the software, translate findings into impact on the users and the Business.
• Constantly seek to learn and further develop your skills as required for your role. Share knowledge with others. Participate in recruitment and procurement activities as required.
• Test from / in the most suitable environments, including using different devices and traveling on-site (in accordance with the organisation’s travel and accommodation policies).
• Understand business processes and activities that impact and that are impacted by the project and systems you are working on. Develop extensive knowledge in the functionality of the systems you are working on, and integrated systems as is required.
• Use GUI based tools to create, update and run automation tests, as well as simple scripting languages e.g., JavaScript to customise those tests.
• Manage UAT’s and ensure completion of test execution within tight deadlines.
• Enable planning by estimating your own effort. Practice the agreed methodology and apply it to your work, identifying obvious deficiencies and supporting activities to improve the performance in your area.

Person specification

Please refer to Job Description

Behaviours

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

• Delivering at Pace
• Managing a Quality Service

Technical skills

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

• GDD Capability Framework Skill 1 - Functional Testing
• GDD Capability Framework Skill 2 - Non-functional testing
• GDD Capability Framework Skill 3 - Technical breadth
• GDD Capability Framework Skill 4 - Test analysis