Test Engineer

We’re looking for outstanding Test Engineers, who wants to contribute to demanding and exciting digital services for the UK Government.

Be part of changing the face of public services with the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people.

As a Test Engineer, you will help build and assure applications used by DWP staff and claimants.

You will be part of a multi-functional agile delivery team and be an integral part of building quality into our services, testing, designing and building automated test solutions that enable the department to deliver quality services consistently that meet the needs of our agents and claimants.

Job description

As a Test Engineer you will:

• work alongside other engineers both within your team and the wider community to solve problems and enable consistent solutions and strategies

• build automation test solutions that help to assure the quality of our products, contribute towards their design, and look for ways to improve the value automation adds

• ensure that usability, accessibility, security, stability and capacity are embedded in the development of services

• take a risk based, context driven approach to agile testing assessing and understanding the risks to drive decisions

• be supporting Continuous Integration/Delivery pipelines to run a full range of tests against our products and assure our builds

• maintain traceability of testing, risks, defects, and report progress to appropriate stakeholders

• be willing to challenge assumptions and current processes to help us improve our quality and our products

• contribute to the identification of tooling and solutions to aid constant improvements, ensuring we build the right product in the right way

• share knowledge, solutions and support our internal communities along with mentoring, coaching, and supporting your peers.