Test Engineer - The Money and Pensions Service

Location

Bedford

About the job

Job summary

Test Engineer
£52,000 per annum
Bedford
Permanent
Hybrid

Join the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) as a Test Engineer and help deliver high-quality digital services that make a real difference to people's lives.

As an embedded member of a multidisciplinary Scrum team, you will be responsible for ensuring quality is considered throughout the development lifecycle. Working closely with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Developers and Delivery Managers, you will design and execute tests, ensure requirements are testable, support refinement activities, manage defects, and provide clear visibility of quality risks and outcomes.

You'll play a key role in both functional and non-functional testing, helping the team deliver reliable, accessible and user-focused products. You'll also contribute to our test automation cbrid Working

* MUST BE AVAILABLE FOR FACE-TO-FACE INTERVIEW IN BEDFORD 7th or 9th SEPTEMBER*apability by creating and maintaining automated tests that provide fast feedback and support our continuous delivery approach.

Beyond your squad, you'll be part of a wider Quality Engineering community where you'll have opportunities to share knowledge, influence ways of working, and help continuously improve quality practices across MaPS.

Join a collaborative and supportive organisation dedicated to helping people across the UK improve their financial wellbeing.

Job description

Role Overview
The Test Engineer will report directly to our QA Lead. In this role, you will be responsible for:

Supporting the overall Automated Testing process, maintaining the framework and supporting the other Test Engineers with their automated testing. You will also contribute to the Automated Regression packs with the tests you create. You will work directly with the Product Teams (Scrum Teams) to support their delivery, while also being part of the QA team and participating in our Community of Practice.

At this role level, you will:

• Identify and raise awareness of risks arising from the automation test results
• Identify new and implement existing test frameworks to improve confidence in testing
• Be proficient in a range of coding languages (you may be an expert in only one)
• Support the wider team to help improve maturity and capability
• Support the Automated Regression pack so that it remains relevant
• Maintain the automation framework and pipelines to support rapid delivery
• Support Test Engineers to deliver automated test sets that can be incorporated into the wider pack
• Represent QA/Testing inside a Scrum Team, evaluating and owning appropriate tickets
• Evaluate Backlog Items for testability and own any items marked for testing
• Support stakeholders in matters of automated testing to increase understanding
• Participate in Scrum Ceremonies and Artefacts
• Report to QA Manager on progress and issues and escalate any issues that require it.

Person specification

Skills and Experience Required
To excel in this role, you will need to demonstrate:

Functional testing:

• Design and execute a wide range of testing techniques and communicate test results to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Make decisions on the environment for testing, and can coach others
• Identify defects, alert the business to them, and help to prioritise them based on defect severity

 Non-functional testing:

• Design and execute a wide range of non-functional testing techniques
• Communicate non-functional test results to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Make decisions on running types of non-functional testing
• Coach and mentor others
• Identify defects, alert the business to them, and help to prioritise them based on defect severity

 Technical breadth

• Demonstrate a good working knowledge of different tools and techniques, and can train others
• Advise others on testing techniques and frameworks
• Effectively research, plan and train others within the team

 Test analysis

• Think creatively, ask the right questions and critically evaluate and communicate findings to a larger team
• Lead investigative work into problems and opportunities in existing processes
• Drive the collection of information and the creation of recommendations for improvements
• Absorb large amounts of conflicting information and use it to determine solutions

 Skills required:

• Strong experience in Automation Testing Experience, with the ability to plan, design, script and execute tests
• Creation and maintenance of Automation Frameworks
• Creation and maintenance of Regression Library
• Ability to script Automation tests at a code level, including aspects such as data matrices and cross-browser functionality
• Experience working as part of a Scrum Team within Agile methodology
• Experience with Playwright
• Experience in React
• Strong capability on multiple languages – Python and Java primarily
• Ability to communicate with multiple levels of stakeholders, both technical and non-technical
• Testing Methodology certificate (ISTBA/ISEB, BCS, etc.) preferable.