Senior Developer in Test

at  Ministry of Justice

Salary
The national salary range is £54,358 - £61,585, London salary range is £58,847 - £66,670. Your salary will be dependent on your base location
Number of jobs available
4
Detail of reserve list
12 Months
Region
National
City/Town
National
Building/Site

NATIONAL

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Grade
Grade 7
Organisation Grade for MoJ
Grade 7
Post Type
Permanent
Working Pattern
Full Time
Role Type
Information Technology
Will the successful applicant have line manager responsibilities?
Yes
Job description

INTRODUCTION:

These are exciting times at HM Court and Tribunals Service (HMCTS). As an agency of the MoJ, we support the judiciary across England and Wales to deliver justice by running courts and tribunals and processing outcomes, and we are looking for talented people to help us achieve our ambitions. It will be challenging, important and rewarding.
HMCTS Digital and Technology Services (DTS) is a specialist technology directorate which provides support to HMCTS in the use of IT and Digital.
DTS is creating a place in which it is great to do work and part of our offer is brilliant training opportunities and support from expert colleagues. As well as that you’ll find flexible working, an inclusive culture and a place where your opinion is valued.
Please follow the link below for further information about HMCTS. www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-courts-and-tribunals-service

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Sound knowledge in Java for development of enterprise and public facing applications
• Strong automation skills at both the service and UI level
• Experience in working with developers to plan and design automation test frameworks and test suites.
• Sound knowledge of HTTP, at least one web development framework (for example Spring or Jersey), Angular (React or Vue.js may be considered) and JavaScript
• Sound knowledge of at least one RDBMS (PostgreSQL or similar), XML and JSON
• Sound knowledge in a wide range of technologies and libraries used in an enterprise, such as logging and monitoring, ORM, authentication/authorisation, cloud hosting environments, systems integration, source control, package management etc
• Experience of working with modern tools (docker, k8s, infrastructure as code) and techniques
• Experience of mentoring, coaching or leading other Developers in Test
• Experience of performance testing or performance monitoring tools
• Experience of designing and implementing non-functional tests that will ensure there is coverage of NFRs - specifically performance
• Strong experience of working with delivery teams using Scrum or Kanban techniques
• Experience of working closely with the Ops team to help specify test environments
• Takes an active interest in the testing community via blogs, forums, and conferences
• You will also want to make a positive impact on the communities we serve
• You are looking for new technical and leadership challenges
• You thrive when you work as part of a team
• You enjoy learning and helping others
• You hold yourself and others to a high standard
• You solve problems in a systematic way

• Establish, monitor, and maintain automated testing. Amending, refactoring, and documenting Automation code to build and maintain automated frameworks, and as required leading on these activities. Adhere to internal process and procedures, promoting and advising others which software development testing standards/processes/procedures apply.
• Improve existing test automation or design more efficient ways of testing. You will look to improve existing test code or design tests that are faster or more comprehensive relative to existing tests.
• Monitor builds and trends across the teams (i.e., sauce lab fails, performance degradation, security issues etc.)
• Take a test-driven approach to software development, write complex automation test scripts, and participate in testing. Participate in code reviews of own work and lead code reviews of colleagues’ work.
• Support Infrastructure testing and OAT and DevOps maintenance activities
• Constantly seek to learn and further develop your skills as required for your role. Monitor changes in the tech stack you use and alert on any major changes affecting our software. Adhere to industry’s best practices, produce well-engineered modern products and guide others to do so in a highly competently manner.
• Plan the testing on sets of related stories and coordinate integration tasks across systems. Contribute to selection of the software development approach (plan-driven, iterative/agile etc.) for projects. Identify process optimisation opportunities with guidance and support activities to improve the testing process. Choose the most appropriate from a variety of methods of prototyping, actively solicit prototypes with others.
• Support and maintain software as required, including in the live environment. Use modern tools to identify, troubleshoot and fix faults effectively and thoroughly. Package and deploy software built. Some activities may be outside the core office hours (in-line with the organisation’s policy for OOH).
• Translate user stories to a proposed design and develop software to meet user needs. Collaborate with user researchers, represent users internally and champion user research to focus on all users.
• Define, analyse, plan, forecast, measure, maintain and improve all aspects of the availability of services. Control and manage service availability to meet the needs of the business in a cost-effective manner. This includes managing the capability, functionality, and sustainability of service components (for example, hardware, software, network resources and software/infrastructure as a service).
• Design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity. Take designs through the required governance. Review designs of others to ensure the selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology. Identify, record and escalate tech debt and medium-level risks.
• Define the integration build. Coordinate build activities across systems and undertake and support integration testing activities.
• Guide and advise others on technical areas of testing, modern development standards and approaches to understand user stories. Coach and mentor more junior colleagues. Lead on and participate in recruitment as required.
• Participate in and lead on procurement activities as required.