Senior Test Engineer

Government Recruitment Service; North East; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A government agency is seeking a Senior Test Engineer to lead testing efforts within agile teams. The role involves designing scalable automated test solutions and mentoring junior engineers to ensure quality in microservice-based systems. Candidates should have expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript and robust experience in testing paradigms like TDD and BDD. This is an exciting opportunity to work on digital services that impact millions across the UK.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in leading testing efforts within agile squads.
• Ability to mentor and coach junior engineers.
• Experience with continuous integration (CI) pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop automated test solutions for micro-services.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance for testing activities.
• Drive collaboration across teams to produce effective test approaches.

Skills

Experience in automated testing

Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript

Object-oriented programming (OOP)

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)

Job description

We’re looking for outstanding Senior Test Engineers, who want to contribute to demanding and exciting digital services for the UK Government. Be part of changing the face of public services with the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people.

These roles represents a unique opportunity to join the Identity and Trust team at DWP Digital. We’re looking for someone who would like to be part of a team delivering real value to people across the UK.

As a senior test engineer, you’ll lead by example, establishing best practices across multiple agile squads. You’ll be experienced in influencing other team members or stakeholders and enjoy coaching or managing other engineers.

You’ll be hands on shifting testing to the left across our teams. Against a modern microservice-based architecture written in JavaScript/TypeScript and Java, you’ll write balanced, reliable, automated test suites, integrate them into CI pipelines and lead others to do the same.

The Identity Trust Team at DWP are developing multiple micro service-based systems to support citizens in their interactions with DWP.

We’re utilising cloud-based services, TDD principles and a CI/CD approach to provide scalable, resilient systems that deliver the best value for money for our citizens.

You’ll be working to ensure the quality and reliability of those systems.

As a Senior Test Engineer, you will:

• Design and develop scalable, reliable automated test solutions for interrelated micro-services leveraging Object-oriented programming (OOP) principles.
• Pair program, mentor junior engineers, promote best testing practices, and guide others in learning programming languages and methodologies such as Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD).
• Oversee multiple test engineers, providing technical leadership and guidance on the delivery of testing activities, ensuring that quality, time and cost objectives are met, acting as an escalation point for issues.
• Drive collaboration across teams and disciplines, working with others to produce test approaches based upon risks, impacts, dependencies, priorities, and areas of responsibility.
• Support the development of Test Engineering team, via performance assessments, reviews of test practices, coaching and mentoring.