Senior Quality Engineer (Ref: 6298)

Ministry of Justice UK; London; Hybrid; GBP 61,000 - 74,000; Full time

Job summary

The Ministry of Justice UK is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer in London to provide leadership in quality assurance for digital services. This role involves designing test strategies, managing multiple teams, and advancing automation initiatives to ensure high-quality outcomes for governmental services. Join a collaborative environment that champions continuous learning and agile methodologies.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Learning budget for development

Generous civil service pension

25 days leave plus bank holidays

Wellbeing support

Bike loans and secure parking

Season ticket loans

Volunteering paid leave

Qualifications

• Overseeing testing across multiple teams.
• Ability to communicate clearly.
• Practical experience with non-functional testing.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-impact digital services.
• Design and develop risk-based test strategies.
• Collaborate to define success criteria and quality metrics.

Skills

Communication

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Tools

Postman

Selenium

Cypress

Playwright

Job description

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Job Summary

This position is based Nationally

Job Description

Senior Quality Engineer

Location: National

Closing Date: 8th June 2025

Interviews: w/c 23rd June 2025

Grade: 7

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary: London: £61,201 - £73,875 (which may include an allowance of up to £12,674)

National: £56,532 - £69,150 (which may include an allowance of up to £12,618)

Working Pattern: Full-time/Part-time/Flexible working

Contract Type: Permanent

Vacancy number: 6298

• We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
  
  

The Role

We’re recruiting for Senior Quality Engineers here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative LAA Digital team.

This role aligns against Senior Test Engineer from the Government Digital and Data Framework

The work we do is incredibly important to some of the most vulnerable people in our society. LAA Digital seeks to provide swift access to legal aid for those who need it and ensure efficient payment to providers of those services.

As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring that digital services are reliable, scalable, and of high quality. Working alongside a multidisciplinary team, you will adopt a strategic approach to quality, ensuring test strategies and plans mitigate risk to the business goals. You will design and execute functional and non-functional tests, design and implement test automation frameworks to assist with testing and enable quality across multiple teams.

This is a hands-on role where you will have the opportunity to apply best practices, develop test automation, and integrate quality at every stage of development.

The community

You will be part of a collaborative and supportive engineering community, working with developers, product managers, user researchers, designers, business analysts, and delivery managers to embed quality into digital solutions.

We champion continuous learning, open communication, and agile methodologies, ensuring our teams thrive in an environment that is both inclusive and transparent.

We subscribe to the manifesto for agile software development. We’re open and transparent. We believe in building quality into our products, systems and services and that quality is everyone’s responsibility.

To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025

Key Responsibilities:

• Work in multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-impact digital services for the Legal Aid Agency.
• Provide technical and strategic leadership for multiple product teams, ensuring alignment with service outcomes and business goals.
• Design and develop risk-based test strategies and plans that integrate testing throughout the entire software development lifecycle.
• Advance automation initiatives, extending and standardising automated testing solutions using appropriate tools and frameworks.
• Enable whole-team involvement in quality assurance activities at every phase of delivery.
• Implement shift-left testing practices, ensuring early defect detection and prevention.
• Contribute to the wider Justice Digital engineering community, sharing knowledge, mentoring junior engineers, and promoting best practices.
• Continuously evolve and optimise test strategies, processes, and tooling.
• Foster effective communication around quality and testing within and beyond your teams.
• People manage and develop other Quality Professionals, supporting their growth and career progression.
  
  

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

Benefits

• 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
• A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best in class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms
• Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow
• Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 28.97% from April 1st 2024 (Contribution Rates)
• 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings’ birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.
• Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
• Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app.
• Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location)
• Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers.
• 5 days volunteering paid leave.
• Free membership to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.
• Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.
  
  

Person Specification

Essential

• Overseeing testing across multiple teams and throughout the entire software development lifecycle, demonstrating both technical and test leadership.
• Ability to communicate clearly.
• Design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks for UI and API testing using tools such as Postman, Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright.
• Applied automation and testing best practices, improving frameworks and delivery pipelines.
• Advocating for quality activities in an Agile context
• A collaborative mindset, mentoring, coaching, growing and inspiring others to adopt holistic testing practices.
• Practical experience with non-functional testing (Performance, Security, Accessibility) and related tooling.
• Strong understanding of shift-left principles, including CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with others to define success criteria and quality metrics to measure and demonstrate progress.
  
  

Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for SC clearance

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

Senior Quality Engineer

Location: National

Closing Date: 8th June 2025

Interviews: w/c 23rd June 2025

Grade: 7

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary: London: £61,201 - £73,875 (which may include an allowance of up to £12,674)

National: £56,532 - £69,150 (which may include an allowance of up to £12,618)

Working Pattern: Full-time/Part-time/Flexible working

Contract Type: Permanent

Vacancy number: 6298

• We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
  
  

The Role

We’re recruiting for Senior Quality Engineers here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative LAA Digital team.

This role aligns against Senior Test Engineer from the Government Digital and Data Framework

The work we do is incredibly important to some of the most vulnerable people in our society. LAA Digital seeks to provide swift access to legal aid for those who need it and ensure efficient payment to providers of those services.

As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring that digital services are reliable, scalable, and of high quality. Working alongside a multidisciplinary team, you will adopt a strategic approach to quality, ensuring test strategies and plans mitigate risk to the business goals. You will design and execute functional and non-functional tests, design and implement test automation frameworks to assist with testing and enable quality across multiple teams.

This is a hands-on role where you will have the opportunity to apply best practices, develop test automation, and integrate quality at every stage of development.

The community

You will be part of a collaborative and supportive engineering community, working with developers, product managers, user researchers, designers, business analysts, and delivery managers to embed quality into digital solutions.

We champion continuous learning, open communication, and agile methodologies, ensuring our teams thrive in an environment that is both inclusive and transparent.

We subscribe to the manifesto for agile software development. We’re open and transparent. We believe in building quality into our products, systems and services and that quality is everyone’s responsibility.

To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025

Essential

• Overseeing testing across multiple teams and throughout the entire software development lifecycle, demonstrating both technical and test leadership.
• Ability to communicate clearly.
• Design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks for UI and API testing using tools such as Postman, Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright.
• Applied automation and testing best practices, improving frameworks and delivery pipelines.
• Advocating for quality activities in an Agile context
• A collaborative mindset, mentoring, coaching, growing and inspiring others to adopt holistic testing practices.
• Practical experience with non-functional testing (Performance, Security, Accessibility) and related tooling.
• Strong understanding of shift-left principles, including CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with others to define success criteria and quality metrics to measure and demonstrate progress.
  
  

Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for SC clearance

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

Person specification

Please Refer To Attached Job Description

Alongside your salary of £56,532, Ministry of Justice contributes £16,377 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Access to learning and development
• A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• Annual Leave
• Public Holidays
• Season Ticket Advance
  
  

For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.

Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Selection process details

How To Apply

Candidates must submit a CV and Cover Letter (750 words), which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above.

In Justice Digital, We Recruit Using a Combination Of The Government Digital And Data Profession Capability And Success Profiles Frameworks. We Will Assess Your Experience, Technical Skills And The Following Behaviours During The Assessment Process:

• Working Together
• Managing a quality service
• Communicating and influencing
• Developing self and others
• Changing and improving
  
  

A diverse panel will review your application against the Person Specification above.

Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to complete a technical test. Successful candidates will then be invited to a 1-hour panel interview, which may include a test/task, held via video conference.

Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on:

• Overseeing testing across multiple teams and throughout the entire software development lifecycle, demonstrating both technical and test leadership.
• Design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks for UI and API testing using tools such as Postman, Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright.
• A collaborative mindset, mentoring, coaching, growing and inspiring others to adopt holistic testing practices.
  
  

will be conducted before the sift.

The Panel Will Be Conducting a Sift On Following Criteria From The Person Specification Above In Addition To The Pre-sift Criteria:

• Practical experience with non-functional testing (Performance, Security, Accessibility) and related tooling.
  
  

Candidates who do not demonstrate examples/details of their experience of the requirements stated above in their Cover Letter will be rejected on this basis.

Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for but demonstrate the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and offer you the position without needing a further application.

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

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
  
  

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job Contact :

• Name : SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team
• Email : [e-mail]
• Telephone : [phone]
  
  

Recruitment team

• Email : [e-mail]
  
  

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. I you feel a department has breached the requirement of the Recruitment Principles and would like to raise this, please contact SSCL ([e-mail]) in the first instance. If the role has been advertised externally (outside of the Civil Service) and you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/civil-service-recruitment/complaints/

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• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

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