Lead Quality Engineer - Ministry of Justice - G6

Location

East Midlands (England), East of England, London (region), North East England, North West England, Scotland, South East England, South West England, Wales, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the Humber

The Role 

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

This role aligns against Lead 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 Lead Quality Engineer, you will provide expert guidance, coaching, and mentorship to teams, ensuring that best practices are adopted and embedded. You will be responsible for defining and overseeing strategic quality practices, advocating for early testing involvement and a shift towards a proactive, quality-first culture. Your role will be instrumental in influencing quality metrics, governance, and continuous optimisation of strategies, test plans, and methodologies. 

This role requires a combination of technical expertise, leadership and the ability to influence organisational change. 

The Team 

You will be part of a forward thinking and innovative community, working closely with the engineering community, product managers, user researchers, designers, business analysts, and delivery managers to embed quality and testing excellence. 

We cultivate an inclusive, diverse, transparent and agile environment. We believe in building quality into our products, systems and services and that quality is everyone’s responsibility. We encourage collaboration, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement. 

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 with the Head of Test and Head of Engineering to ensure strategic, robust, scalable and secure testing methodologies are adopted. 
• Establish and oversee quality metrics and key performance indicators, ensuring continuous improvements in quality practices and processes across teams. 
• Mentor and coach teams in holistic testing practices, integrating quality practices from the beginning and at every stage of the software development lifecycle 
• Influence and lead decisions on functional and non-functional testing methodologies, ensuring they are effectively implemented across various domains such as API, Web UI, ETL, Mobile, Desktop, SaaS, and Infrastructure testing. 
• Set organisational-wide standards for quality approaches that foster best practices. 
• Define and implement test engineering best practices such as source control, SOLID principles, object-oriented programming, and continuous testing strategies. 
• Influence technology choices across the organisation, ensuring appropriate and scalable solutions are adopted for testing and quality assurance that leverage automation effectively. 
• Advance the adoption of CI/CD pipeline testing, ensuring seamless integration of automated tests within software delivery workflows and provide visibility of quality status across the organisation. 
• Highlight dependencies and testing risks at an organisational level, ensuring quality practices are aligned with business objectives. 
• Foster a culture of learning, experimentation, and continuous improvement, ensuring that teams adopt industry-leading testing methodologies and innovations. 
• Provide thought leadership on quality engineering best practices, driving the long-term quality vision for the organisation. 

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

Person Specification 

Essential 

• Proven experience defining and leading test strategies within large-scale digital projects, with an understanding of the benefits of agile and multi-disciplinary approaches. 
• Ability to collaborate and influence cultural change and around quality engineering. 
• Experience in mentoring and coaching teams, embedding quality engineering best practices. 
• Proven experience of all areas of the testing lifecycle with a strong knowledge of testing methodologies (functional and non-functional), tools, best practices and continuous integration and delivery approaches. 
• Experience with test automation, test tools and frameworks, including Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Postman, Bruno, Pact and CI/CD tooling 
• Ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts effectively. 
• Experience working with cloud-based testing environments for example AWS, Kubernetes. 
• Experience in implementing innovative quality solutions and sharing their skills with others. 
• Strong problem-solving and risk management skills. 

Willingness to be assessed against  the requirements for SC clearance