Lead Test Engineer - Automation, CI/CD & Reliability

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Civil Service Pension

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Flexible working

Job summary

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) Nottingham is seeking a Test Engineering specialist to design and develop test frameworks, and build automated checks for APIs, integrations, and end-to-end scenarios. You will help strengthen CI/CD validation and foster best practices across the team.

You will collaborate with developers, testers, analysts, and DevOps engineers to embed quality early and support reliable live services with a culture of continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Lead the design and development of test frameworks and tools.
• Strong experience building automated checks across API, integration, contract and end-to-end levels.
• Proven ability to improve CI/CD pipeline confidence through automated validation.

Responsibilities

• Leading the design and development of test frameworks and tools.
• Building reliable automated checks across API, integration, contract and end-to-end levels.
• Improving CI/CD pipeline confidence through effective automated validation.
• Investigating complex failures across code, environments, data and pipelines.
• Supporting live service reliability by identifying risks and driving improvements.
• Mentoring colleagues and promoting consistent quality engineering practices.
• Contributing to engineering standards, continuous improvement and cross-team collaboration.

Skills

Test automation

CI/CD

Programming (Python/Java)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Selenium

Postman

Jenkins

Job description

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) Nottingham is seeking a Test Engineering specialist to design and develop test frameworks, and build automated checks for APIs, integrations, and end-to-end scenarios. You will help strengthen CI/CD validation and foster best practices across the team.

You will collaborate with developers, testers, analysts, and DevOps engineers to embed quality early and support reliable live services with a culture of continuous improvement.