Lead Test Engineer

at  Department for Work and Pensions

JOB SUMMARY

As a Lead Test Engineer, you will provide overall leadership for multiple Test Engineering teams supporting programmes, projects and live services within the Digital Channels Team.
Digital Channels are leading on the delivery of a number of large programmes including the transformation of our Contact Centre Telephony platform and improving the ways in which we interact with customers via various media. You’ll be responsible for developing Test Strategies in support of this activity and ensuring that effective testing of new and updated Products is undertaken, providing assurance to the quality of Delivery.
This role will suit an experienced test engineer who is excellent at stakeholder management, developing robust Test Strategies and working with Delivery teams to ensure that quality services are promoted into Production.
A clear understanding of testing principles in an Agile environment is essential as is experience of Enterprise Voice Platforms.
Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see ‘Selection process details’.

JOB DESCRIPTION

You will have deep knowledge and experience of test engineering principles, tools and delivery methodologies, and work with other key stakeholders to make strategic decisions for customer services.

Responsible for providing overall leadership and support to multiple Test Engineering teams across Digital Channels

• Working together with key stakeholders and technical decision makers to define strategic vision for products and services.
• Oversee, influence, support and coach a large number of diverse multi-disciplinary teams involved in building, testing, delivering and maintaining solutions.
• Drive continuous improvement, consistency, standards, and quality. Resolving testing technical blockers and promoting reuse and collaboration.
• Own test planning and risks, issues and dependencies (external and internal) in a complex environment.
• Promote Test Engineering engagement with continuous integration, delivery and deployment practices and guide teams toward continuous testing following more adaptive Agile delivery principles, methodology and tools.
• Collaborating with Product Owners, Engineers, and Architects on strategic vision and to design, build and maintain quality and testability of solutions.
• Ensure that usability, accessibility, security, stability and capacity are assured in the development of the services.
• Promote and enable adoption of the latest valuable trends, tools and best practices within Test Engineering and promote across the practice.
• Identify Test Engineering skills gaps and support capability growth, and actively contribute to the recruitment of talent into the organisation.

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NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Responsible for providing overall leadership and support to multiple Test Engineering teams across Digital Channels

• Working together with key stakeholders and technical decision makers to define strategic vision for products and services.
• Oversee, influence, support and coach a large number of diverse multi-disciplinary teams involved in building, testing, delivering and maintaining solutions.
• Drive continuous improvement, consistency, standards, and quality. Resolving testing technical blockers and promoting reuse and collaboration.
• Own test planning and risks, issues and dependencies (external and internal) in a complex environment.
• Promote Test Engineering engagement with continuous integration, delivery and deployment practices and guide teams toward continuous testing following more adaptive Agile delivery principles, methodology and tools.
• Collaborating with Product Owners, Engineers, and Architects on strategic vision and to design, build and maintain quality and testability of solutions.
• Ensure that usability, accessibility, security, stability and capacity are assured in the development of the services.
• Promote and enable adoption of the latest valuable trends, tools and best practices within Test Engineering and promote across the practice.
• Identify Test Engineering skills gaps and support capability growth, and actively contribute to the recruitment of talent into the organisation