Senior Test Engineer

DWP. Digital with purpose.

• Are you a seasoned Test Engineer with the experience and knowledge to engage and lead in the testing space?
• Are you passionate about find solutions to complex problems that impact lives?
• Are you looking for a career that values your knowledge and invests in your skills and career?

DWP Digital is transforming the way government services work, and we’re hiring the best digital talent to work in agile, multidisciplinary teams to deliver these changes, making over services easier to find, access and use.

We’re looking for talented Senior Tester Engineers to work on (url removed), and on services that make a difference to people’s lives.

If you want to be a leading part of our expert community, click apply now to start an application.

Design with people in mind.

As our new Senior Test Engineer, you will be:

• Leading across several test engineering teams, providing technical leadership and guidance.
• Driving collaborative working across engineering roles – within your team and wider – to solve problems and ensure consistent solutions and strategies.
• Building automated test solutions that help to assure the quality of our products. You’ll contribute to their design, and find ways improve the value automation adds.
• Ensuring usability, accessibility, security, stability, and capacity in all services
• Driving teams to take a risk based, context driven approach to agile testing
• Leading the adoption of Continuous Integration/Delivery pipelines, to fully test and assure our products and builds
• Leading the traceability of testing, risks, defects, and report progress to appropriate stakeholders across several teams.
• Challenging assumptions and current processes to help us improve. Reusing and evolving our strategies and tooling.
• Driving the identification of tooling and solutions to aid constant improvements, ensuring we build the right product in the right way.
• Supporting and coaching our internal communities

Your essential skills and experience:

• Skills in a modern programming language and software engineering 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.
• 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.
• You’re an 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.

Details. Wages. Perks.

You’ll be based in your choice of one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield., whichever is most convenient for you.

We also have all the tools and tech to work flexibly. We operate a hybrid working model. You can expect to work from home 60% of the time.

We offer competitive pay of up to £63,517 per annum.

You’ll be eligible for a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 27.9%, worth up to £17,721 a year.

You’ll get a generous leave package starting at 26 days, rising to 31 over time.

Plus, all the usual bank holidays, and the option to take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi leave.

We have a benefits package built around your work-life balance, which includes:

• Flexible working, flexi hours and flexi days
• Hybrid working: some time in a hub with the team, some time at home
• Family-friendly policies
• Time off for volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with ‘I Can Be Me in DWP’
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket
• Working in an award-winning environment and culture
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities

Click ‘Apply’ for more information and to start an application on Civil Service Jobs .