Senior Test Engineer Department for Work & Pensions
Manchester
Reference
62902
Number of vacancies
1
Location
Manchester
Salary
£49,171 — £59,589
Work hours
37
Employment type
Permanent
Job benefits
A brilliant Civil Service pension with employer contributions circa 27%, generous annual leave, flexible working, great work life balance and lots more.
Closing date
19 August 2020
Job description
Join our regional teams, help us transform public services, let’s make a real difference…
As a Senior Test Engineer at DWP Digital, you’ll execute technical delivery, leadership and management across testing disciplines including automation, functional, performance, security, and accessibility. You’ll help to deliver a once-in-a-generation digital transformation for the UK’s largest government department.
Duties. Work. Projects.
Our agile multi-disciplinary teams are already transforming services for users. Part of our challenge is to digitise and create great customer journeys and user interface for our Fraud Error and Debt function. You will be developing our capability through the use of automation, agile principles, and implementing modern tools and technologies to deliver high quality services. Nonetheless we are currently using and operating on hybrid systems, so we’ll need you to develop and deliver a hybrid test approach; Configuration activity of ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning and COTS – Commercial off the shelve products.
You’ll be working on the Fraud Error and Debt function. We deliver services not projects, being responsible for delivering real value to both citizens and agents through digital services.
We’re building a talented, knowledgeable and flexible team of test experts who can work across front end web, APIs, UI testing, back end integration testing and lots more.
As well as maintaining and modifying tests for other engineers, you’ll provide leadership, and strategic direction for our teams, and identify the right test methodology for the right situation. You’ll drive collaboration and alignment, and be a vocal and visible Test Engineering ambassador in our community, leading discussion of trends, tool and best practice. This role would suit someone with experience in delivering a testing strategy for a Financial product, ERP or COTS product but we are not prejudiced to this. It’s about your mind set and track record.
At DWP Digital we are developing our capability through the use of automation, agile principles, and modern tools and technologies to deliver the best quality services. And we’re committed to helping our testers be at their very best, whether that means formal training, coaching or just working alongside experts from across the Test, Engineering and Digital communities.
What you’ll work on
- You’ll set a consistent strategic direction for product teams and the Test Engineering community.
- You will lead multiple Test Engineering teams, providing technical leadership and guidance.
- You’ll lead delivery of testing activities, ensuring we deliver on quality, time and cost.
- You will define the approach for test infrastructure setup and use outputs to drive technical improvements.
- You’ll identify and implement appropriate technical test tools.
- You’ll drive standardization by sharing reusable libraries and services, experience, and lessons learned with other DWP teams.
- You drive collaboration by aligning what teams are working on and highlighting the key dependencies, impacts and priorities.
- You will lead community discussions around the latest technology trends, tools, and best practice.
What skills, knowledge and experience are we looking for?
- Experience of leading a multi-disciplinary Agile test team
- Experience with implementing test engineering best practices.
- An understand Agile delivery principles, methodology and tools.
- Knowledge of the latest technical test tools and where it would be beneficial to apply them including Jenkins, Selenium and a broad range of performance testing tools.
- Experience with analyzing and selection various test tools.
Where you’ll work
Your base will be in Manchester. Find out more about each of our hubs here: https://careers.dwp.gov.uk/our-locations/
We are a building a Test Engineering community that believes in nurturing the talent of our people, and here you’ll step onto a career path with many opportunities to develop and expand your knowledge base and skill set.
We also have all the tools and tech we need to enable our people to work flexibly, and many of us are working remotely at the moment due to COVID-19.
We are an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications regardless of age, gender, race or sexuality.
Details. Wages. Perks.
In return for your skills we offer competitive salary up to £59,589, a brilliant civil service pension, and a generous leave package. We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- Flexible working family friendly policies
- Volunteering and charitable giving
- Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
- Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it’s even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
- Sports and social activities
- Learning, development, coaching and mentoring
- Career pathways and progression
- And lots more
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For further information and to start your application click apply. You’ll be redirected to civil service jobs. Make sure you use your application to really demonstrate you’ve got the skills and experience we’re looking for.
Any further questions, queries please get in touch with via Mimi.Enefiok@dwp.gov.uk.