Test Engineer

DWP Digital; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

DWP Digital is seeking an outstanding Senior Test Engineer to lead testing across the Data and Analytics section of its modernisation programme. You will define testing strategy, provide technical leadership, and oversee all testing activities to ensure high-quality data transformation products.

You will drive automated testing adoption, build robust test solutions, and collaborate with cross-functional teams in an agile environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience defining and executing testing strategies.
• Strong automation mindset and ability to design scalable test frameworks.
• Leads and mentors test engineers in multi-team delivery environments.

Responsibilities

• Define the overall testing strategy across Data and Analytics.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to test engineering teams.
• Oversee testing activities and drive improvements in quality.
• Ensure security, latency, scalability, stability, and capacity are embedded in services.
• Lead adoption of CI/CD pipelines for automated testing.
• Collaborate in agile, multi-functional teams to solve problems.
• Mentor and coach peers and junior Test Engineers.

Skills

Test automation

Test strategy

Leadership

Agile/Scrum

CI/CD

Tools

Selenium

Job description

We're looking for outstanding Senior Test Engineer to support testing within Data and Analytics. In Data and Analytics we are a key part of DWP Digital's modernisation programme. This area owns data enabling products and is responsible for transformation to bring D&A managed data through new products. You will be working with Teams that are on the forefront of Data Transformation and as such, requires an experienced, self-motivated, and confident Senior Test Engineer. As a Senior Test Engineer you will define the overall testing strategy, provide technical leadership and guidance to test engineering teams, and have oversight of all testing activities. You will ensure that best practices are in place, and drive improvements by sharing knowledge and resources across teams. As Senior Test Engineer you will help define and implement the strategy for building automation test solutions that help to assure the quality of products that make up DWPs digital services leading Test Engineers across several delivery teams, providing technical leadership and guidance.

• Drive teams to take a risk based and context driven approaches and techniques to validate and ensure appropriate data transformations.
• Build automation test solutions that help to assure the quality of our products, contribute towards their design, and look for way to improve the value automation adds to data transformation.
• Ensure that security, latency, scalability, stability, and capacity are embedded in the development of services.
• Lead the traceability of testing, managing risks and defects, whilst reporting progress to appropriate stakeholders across several teams.
• Lead the adoptions of Continuous Integration/Delivery pipelines to run a full range of tests against our products and assure our builds.
• Experience working in agile environment in multi-functional teams.
• Drive collaboration across engineers of different roles both within your team and the wider teams to solve problems and enable consistent solutions and strategies.
• Proactively share knowledge, solutions, tooling and support our internal communities along with mentoring, coaching, and supporting your peers and line manage Test Engineers.