Test Automation Engineer – CI/CD & Reliability Focus

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency; Swansea; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Civil Service Pension 28.97%

25 days annual leave (+ bank holidays)

Flexible working options

Job summary

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency is seeking a Test Engineer within the Test Engineering team to drive high-quality, scalable digital testing across APIs, integrations and end-to-end flows. You will collaborate with product, delivery and engineering to embed testing early and continuously improve delivery reliability.

You will design and develop test frameworks, build automated checks, and mentor colleagues while contributing to engineering standards and cross-team collaboration in a flexible

Qualifications

• Experience leading the design and development of test frameworks and tools.
• Ability to build reliable automated checks across API, integration, contract and end-to-end levels.
• Proven track record improving CI/CD pipeline confidence through automated validation.
• Experience investigating complex failures across code, environments, data and pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of test frameworks and tools.
• Build reliable automated checks across API, integration, contract and end-to-end levels.
• Improve CI/CD pipeline confidence through effective automated validation.
• Investigate complex failures across code, environments, data and pipelines.
• Support live service reliability by identifying risks and driving improvements.
• Mentor colleagues and promote consistent quality engineering practices.
• Contribute to engineering standards and cross-team collaboration.

Skills

Test framework design

Automated testing

API testing

CI/CD tooling

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency is seeking a Test Engineer within the Test Engineering team to drive high-quality, scalable digital testing across APIs, integrations and end-to-end flows. You will collaborate with product, delivery and engineering to embed testing early and continuously improve delivery reliability.

You will design and develop test frameworks, build automated checks, and mentor colleagues while contributing to engineering standards and cross-team collaboration in a flexible