Senior Test Engineer

at  Department for Work and Pensions

JOB SUMMARY

We’re looking for outstanding Senior Test Engineers to design, build and maintain our flagship service, Universal Credit and our Working Age Benefits.
Universal Credit is one of the highest profile digital transformation programmes in the world, praised for its fast and flexible response to the Covid-19 pandemic and now in use by over 5 million claimants and 30,000 staff.
As a Senior Test Engineer, you will be part of a multi-functional agile delivery team and be an integral part of shaping and delivering automated test solutions that enable Universal Credit Working Age Benefits to deliver quality services consistently that meet the needs of our agents and claimants. The successful candidate will be expected to lead engineers as well as collaborate with others, actively seek input from colleagues and value a multidisciplinary team over hierarchy.
This role represents a unique opportunity to join the Universal Credit and Working Age team at DWP Digital, to be part of a team delivering real value to people that need help during the difficult times of their lives.
Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance.

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a Senior Test Engineer you will;

• Help define and implement the strategy for building automation test solutions that help to assure the quality of products that make up DWPs digital services.
• Lead Test Engineers across several teams, providing technical leadership and guidance.
• Drive collaboration across engineers of different roles both within your team and the wider teams to solve problems and enable consistent solutions and strategies.
• Build automation test solutions that help to assure the quality of our products, contribute towards their design, and look for way to improve the value automation adds.
• Ensure that usability, accessibility, security, stability, and capacity are embedded in the development of services.
• Drive teams to take a risk based, context driven approach to agile testing assessing and understanding the risks to drive decisions.
• Lead the adoptions of Continuous Integration/Delivery pipelines to run a full range of tests against our products and assure our builds.
• Lead the traceability of testing, risks, defects, and report progress to appropriate stakeholders across several teams.
• Be willing to challenge assumptions and current processes to help us improve. Reusing and evolving our strategies and tooling.
• Drive the identification of tooling and solutions to aid constant improvements, ensuring we build the right product in the right way.
• Proactively share knowledge, solutions and support our internal communities along with mentoring, coaching, and supporting your peers.
• Experience working in agile environment and tool like JIRA or similar.
• Experience Identifying and driving resolution of defects or issues.
• Experience in Agile delivery methodology, practices and tools.
• Contribute to discussions around the latest technology trends, tools and best practices within Testing.

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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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