Senior Quality Engineer - Driving Quality in Public Sector

Manchester Digital; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

MoJ Justice Digital, Data and Science is recruiting a Senior Quality Engineer to help embed quality across Probation Digital and LA Digital services. You will work with product, delivery, architecture and engineers to build reliable, accessible, secure and maintainable systems.

You will apply automated testing and exploratory approaches to manage risk and improve delivery quality. You will lead QA practices, mentor colleagues, and contribute to the engineering community, with opportunities to

Qualifications

• Oversee testing across multiple teams throughout the SDLC.

Responsibilities

• Engineer quality throughout the delivery lifecycle from planning to live service.
• Coach teams to own and improve quality with hands-on support.
• Lead quality leadership across multiple product teams.
• Develop risk-based quality strategies and early interventions.
• Design, develop and maintain automated tests; perform exploratory testing.
• Advance automation initiatives and standardise testing solutions.
• Apply testing across API, integration and end-to-end levels.
• Improve testability and observability; promote shared quality ownership.
• Contribute to quality in accessibility, security, performance, resilience, maintainability.
• Collaborate with the Lead Quality Engineer to improve standards.
• Use testing evidence to inform decisions; shift-left testing.
• Provide quality expertise across team boundaries; address gaps.
• Mentor colleagues and contribute to Engineering community.
• Continuously improve quality strategies, processes and tooling.
• People manage and develop other Quality Engineers.

Skills

Test leadership

Hands-on testing

Automated UI/API tests

UI automation tools

Risk-based testing

Quality across non-functional

Analytical problem-solving

Coaching others

Continuous learning

CI/CD testing integration

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Cypress

Bruno

Pact

Job description

MoJ Justice Digital, Data and Science is recruiting a Senior Quality Engineer to help embed quality across Probation Digital and LA Digital services. You will work with product, delivery, architecture and engineers to build reliable, accessible, secure and maintainable systems.

You will apply automated testing and exploratory approaches to manage risk and improve delivery quality. You will lead QA practices, mentor colleagues, and contribute to the engineering community, with opportunities to