Test Engineer: Data & Automation for Secure Cloud Apps

慨正橡扯; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 44,000 - 51,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension

Performance‑related bonus

28 days annual leave

Enhanced family leave

Hybrid and flexible working options

Learning and development support

OS Maps subscription

Volunteering leave

Job summary

Ordnance Survey in Southampton is seeking a Test Engineer to build and maintain software components using modern, iterative delivery methods. You will champion testing best practices and work with engineers and product teams to ensure services remain reliable, secure and scalable.

The role involves hands-on testing, mentoring others, and contributing to release readiness. You will engage in agile ceremonies, define quality metrics, and help improve how OS delivers software across the

Qualifications

• Good experience in creating, maintaining and peer reviewing test automation code, preferably in Scala
• Previous working experience of back‑end testing, data testing, or ETL testing
• Excellent knowledge and skills in software testing & industry best practices
• Working experience with Agile Scrum, backlog refinement and ability to estimate testing activities for sprint planning
• Knowledge of CI/CD practices, and how they relate to test

Responsibilities

• Implement automated tests using our existing test frameworks, and extend these frameworks as necessary
• Validate data quality using big data testing tools
• Analyse data transformations to establish the best way to test key business requirements
• Contribute testing acumen into agile team ceremonies such as sprint planning, retrospectives, and daily standups
• Communicate software risks & test outcomes with the team
• Support the Ordnance Survey Testing Guild with common standards such as metrics and use of test tools

Skills

Test automation

Data testing

ETL testing

Agile Scrum

CI/CD

Back-end testing

Tools

Scala

Apache Spark

Databricks

Azure

Azure DevOps

Git

Parquet

Job description

Ordnance Survey in Southampton is seeking a Test Engineer to build and maintain software components using modern, iterative delivery methods. You will champion testing best practices and work with engineers and product teams to ensure services remain reliable, secure and scalable.

The role involves hands-on testing, mentoring others, and contributing to release readiness. You will engage in agile ceremonies, define quality metrics, and help improve how OS delivers software across the