Quality Engineer

Ministry of Justice; United States; Hybrid; USD 78,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Public sector pension

25 days annual leave

Hybrid working

Learning budget £1k per person

Parental/maternity leave benefits

Job summary

Ministry of Justice in London is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to embed quality across digital probation and legal aid services. You will work with product, delivery, architecture, and software engineers to ensure reliable, accessible, secure, and maintainable services, while managing quality risk and enabling faster feedback through automation.

This role requires Security Check clearance and offers flexible/hybrid working, strong pension and generous leave, plus a learning budget and

Qualifications

• Senior Quality Engineer responsible for embedding quality across delivery lifecycle.
• Work with product, delivery, architecture, and engineers to improve quality.
• Use automation and testing to provide fast, reliable feedback.
• Help teams manage quality risk and adopt best practices.

Responsibilities

• Embed quality into products and services across the delivery lifecycle.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to improve testability and reliability.
• Design and implement automated and exploratory testing approaches.
• Identify quality risks and drive improvements across services.

Skills

Quality engineering

Automation testing

Test design

Collaboration

Job description

Please note that unless you are an existing member of staff at Justice Digital, Data and Science, the only London location being recruited to is 10 South Colonnade, E14 4PU. We are no longer recruiting to 102 Petty France, SW1H 9AJ. The Role Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. Please click on the link for details. We're recruiting for Senior Quality Engineers here at Justice Digital, Data and Science to be part of our warm and collaborative Digital Probation and Legal Aid (LA) Digital teams. This role aligns against Senior Test Engineer from the Government Digital and Data Framework Probation Digital builds and supports digital services that probation practitioners rely on every day to manage risk, record accurate information, and deliver effective supervision. These services directly support better outcomes for individuals, communities and the justice system as a whole. Our work is essential to public safety and to the people under probation supervision. Legal Aid Digital seeks to provide swift access to legal aid for those who need it and ensure efficient payment to providers of those services. Our work is incredibly important to some of the most vulnerable people in our society. As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will assist teams to build quality into the products and services they deliver. You will work with multidisciplinary teams to engineer quality throughout the delivery lifecycle. You will work early and collaboratively with product, delivery, architecture, software engineers, operational colleagues and other quality engineers to help teams deliver services that are reliable, accessible, secure, performant and maintainable. You will help teams understand and manage quality risk, build effective quality practices into their ways of working, and use automation and engineering approaches to provide fast, reliable feedback. You will bring specialist expertise where it is needed, while enabling teams to adopt effective quality practices and take greater ownership of quality. You will be part of a wider Quality Engineering community, sharing knowledge, developing standards and practices and helping others grow their quality engineering capability. You will have opportunities to develop your own technical and leadership skills through knowledge sharing, mentoring others, communities of practice, involvement in wider quality initiatives and helping to improve quality engineering capability. The products and services you work on will vary, giving you the opportunity to work with different technologies, teams and challenges and to shape how quality is engineered across complex digital services. You will be hands-on where required, working directly with teams to apply quality engineering practices, investigate risks and build automated and exploratory testing solutions. You will also work across team and service boundaries where needed, particularly where there are complex integrations, dependencies or end-to-end risks.

National: £58,511- £73,450 (which may include an allowance up to £14,939) London: £63,343 - £78,225 (which may include an allowance up to £14,882), You'll receive a range of excellent benefits when you join our department, including:

• A generous employer pension contribution of 28.97% through the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
• 25 days of annual leave (increasing to 30 days after 5 years of service), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King's birthday.
• Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, working part-time or compressed hours. Designed to support a positive work-life balance.
• Employees are allocated 10% of their working time for personal and professional development.
• A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best-in-class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms.
• Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!