Test Engineer – Automation, CI/CD & Quality

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency; Uxbridge; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

25 days annual leave

Flexible working

Job summary

The Strategy, Policy, Digital & Technology Directorate delivers DVSA's digital services that support road safety and compliance across the UK. The Test Engineering team sits within this directorate and ensures high-quality, reliable, and scalable digital products.

Joining our department includes benefits such as generous civil service pensions, 25 days leave, flexible working, and a privilege day for the King's birthday.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and developing test frameworks and tools.
• Experience building automated checks across API, integration, contract and end-to-end testing.
• Ability to improve CI/CD pipeline confidence through automated validation.
• Experience diagnosing complex failures across code, environments, data and pipelines.
• Ability to mentor colleagues and promote quality engineering practices.
• Collaborative mindset and cross-team engagement.

Responsibilities

• Leading the design and development of test frameworks and tools.
• Building reliable automated checks across API, integration, contract and end-to-end levels.
• Improving CI/CD pipeline confidence through effective automated validation.
• Investigating complex failures across code, environments, data and pipelines.
• Supporting live service reliability by identifying risks and driving improvements.
• Working with developers, testers, analysts and DevOps engineers to embed quality early.
• Mentoring colleagues and promoting consistent quality engineering practices.
• Contributing to engineering standards, continuous improvement and cross-team collaboration.

Skills

Test framework design

Automated testing

CI/CD pipelines

API/End-to-end testing

Mentoring

Tools

Test frameworks and tools

Job description

The Strategy, Policy, Digital & Technology Directorate delivers DVSA's digital services that support road safety and compliance across the UK. The Test Engineering team sits within this directorate and ensures high-quality, reliable, and scalable digital products.

Joining our department includes benefits such as generous civil service pensions, 25 days leave, flexible working, and a privilege day for the King's birthday.