Test Engineer

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

Job summary

DWP Digital is seeking a Senior Test Engineer to lead testing within Data and Analytics as part of our modernisation programme in the UK. You will define the overall testing strategy, provide technical leadership, and drive automation across multiple delivery teams to ensure security, performance and quality of data transformation in our digital services.

You will mentor peers, shape best practices, and collaborate with engineers, product managers and security specialists to deliver reliable

Qualifications

• Defines overall testing strategy.
• Provides technical leadership to test engineering teams.
• Drives improvements by sharing knowledge and resources.
• Leads development of automation test solutions for data transformation.
• Drives adoption of Continuous Integration/Delivery pipelines for tests.
• Experience working in an Agile environment with multi-functional teams.
• Mentors and coaches peers and line manages Test Engineers.

Responsibilities

• Define the overall testing strategy across Data and Analytics.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to test teams.
• Lead the adoption of automation and CI/CD pipelines for testing.
• Ensure testing covers security, latency, scalability, stability and capacity.
• Collaborate across engineers and delivery teams to establish consistent testing strategies.

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.