Test Engineers

HM Land Registry; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Civil Service Pension

Annual Leave

Flexible Working

Job summary

HM Land Registry is recruiting five Senior Test Engineers to join the Transformation and Technology team. The role focuses on driving best practices, improving testing frameworks, and supporting new teams with technical startups and tooling development.

You will work with lead engineers to assess systems, mentor others, and resolve impediments while upholding high standards of quality, security, and compliance across critical national infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Practitioner in technical analysis. Absorb large amounts of conflicting information to determine solutions.
• Practitioner level experience of automated testing and automated test tools.
• Practitioner in understanding environment needs and capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Advocate best practice leading through practical examples and guidance.
• Perform in depth reviews reporting quality improvements and successes.
• Update and enhance technical practice and quality frameworks.
• Work with teams to assist technical startup and overcome impediments.
• Teach, mentor and be a role model for quality test implementation.
• Be able to perform technical and business analysis that will underly technical solutions.
• Innovate and generate tooling to assist testing tasks and potential future issues.
• Be able to understand overall system process and architecture to understand issues and impact that may need to be considered.
• Build relations and input into other practices to represent test community views and help build enhancements.

Skills

Automated testing

Technical analysis

Testing tools

Education

ISTQB Foundation in Software Testing

Degree level or equivalent in Computing

Job description

It is an exciting time for HM Land Registry (HMLR) as we continue on a major transformation programme. HMLR's ambition is to become the world's leading land registry for speed, simplicity and an open approach to data. HMLR are recruiting for 5 Senior Test Engineers to join our Transformation and Technology team to help us achieve this. HM Land Registry's existing software systems and services form part of the critical national infrastructure, safeguarding land and property ownership valued at £8 trillion. This enables over £1 trillion worth of personal and commercial lending to be secured against property across England and Wales. You will work across projects and alongside test managers assisting new teams start technical frameworks, documenting new approaches and process and helping resolve technical impediments. You will work closely with the Lead Test Engineer to innovate, predict and resolve technical issues before they occur to help smooth advancement. Main Duties include:

Main Duties include:

• Advocate best practice leading through practical examples and guidance
• Perform in depth reviews reporting quality improvements and successes
• Update and enhance technical practice and quality frameworks
• Work with teams to assist technical startup and overcome impediments
• Teach, mentor and be a role model for quality test implementation
• Be able to perform technical and business analysis that will underly technical solutions
• Innovate and generate tooling to assist testing tasks and potential future issues
• Be able to understand overall system process and architecture to understand issues and impact that may need to be considered
• Build relations and input into other practices to represent test community views and help build enhancements, Artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

The qualification is essential for this role and failure to attach it will result in your application not being progressed any further.

You must also attach your Certificate for ISTQB Foundation in Software Testing or Degree level or equivalent in Computing.

Essential Experience Criteria

• Practitioner in technical analysis. Absorb large amounts of conflicting information to determine solutions
• Practitioner level experience of automated testing and automated test tools
• Practitioner in understanding environment needs and capabilities

You will then be invited to complete a short assessment. This assessment will be emailed to you through CS jobs. If you pass the assessments you will receive a full sift score. If successful at sift, you will be invited to attend a virtual, blended interview, which will be held through Microsoft Teams which will include a 10 minute pre-prepared presentation. Further information will be provided to those invited to interview. Interviews will be held shortly after the sift.

Please note we may be sifting whilst this campaign is open so we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.

Candidates may refer to notes within their video interview but they should be used as a prompt only. The blended interview will assess the behaviours and experience listed in the candidate pack.

HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confidence Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria at the shortlisting stage are guaranteed an invitation to interview. If any candidate requires the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else they would like the panel to take into consideration they are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.

Security Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete checks.

Nationality requirements

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

To be successful in this role, you must hold the following:

• ISTQB Foundation in Software Testing
• Degree level or equivalent in Computing

And it is desirable that you hold the following:

• Advanced Technical Test Analyst
• Advanced Test Automation Engineer

Qualifications

• ISTQB Foundation in Software Testing
• Degree level or equivalent in Computing

Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Changing and Improving
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Developing Self and Others
• Delivering at Pace

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £49,443, HM Land Registry contributes £14,323 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

We Are HMLR

At HM Land Registry our vision is a world leading property market as part of a thriving economy and a sustainable future. We are unique in terms of the economic and social impacts of our work, our ability to make a positive difference to the lives of our customers, our sense of mission, and our great people. They are the foundation of all we have achieved and all we aspire to in the future. We want our people to feel proud to work for HM Land Registry and able to fulfil their full potential. We have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development, and flexible ways of working. We offer competitive pay and annual leave, attractive pension options and a wide range of other benefits.

• We have integrity- we value honesty, trust and doing the right thing in the right way.
• We drive innovation- we are forward-thinking, embrace change and are continually improving our processes.
• We are professional- we value and grow our knowledge and professional expertise.
• We give assurance- we guarantee our services and provide confidence to the property market.