Test Engineer Department for Work & Pensions
Blackpool
Reference
1643484
Location
Blackpool
Salary
Up to £38,863
Work hours
37
Employment type
Permanent
Job benefits
A brilliant Civil Service pension with employer contributions circa 20%, generous annual leave, flexible working, great work life balance and lots more
Closing date
20 August 2019
Job description
If you’re creative with a passion for learning new things, want to be empowered to make decisions and challenge the norm, and want to bring your ideas to a MASSIVE digital challenge then you’ll love it here. And we’d love to hear from you.
We’re looking for talented Test Engineers to join DWP’s Digital Delivery for Shared Platforms (DDSP) project and become a key part of one of the UK’s biggest and most high-profile digital transformation programmes, a once-in-a-generation tech-driven reform of government products and services.
What is DDSP?
Digital Delivery for Shared Platforms evolves and transforms some of the most critical systems in DWP, unleashing the potential of Digital services to reduce overheads, cost and friction for citizen and agent-facing services.
Our Integration Technologies, Payment Services and Citizen Information teams work together to enable the successful delivery of services across DWP.
You’ll join our brilliant DDSP Payments Services team.
Payments are core to the services we provide; they are critical to helping people live better lives. We are the biggest payer in the UK serving some 22m people, who collectively receive a total of £170b annually, delivered on time and in the best form for them.
Tech innovation, open banking and changing customer needs mean payments are being transformed at pace in DWP and externally. We are thinking radically about how we deliver and evolve payment services and how ambitious we need to be to meet the future needs of the Department, our citizens, Government and industry. We need Payment Services need to be efficient, modern, fast, scalable, flexible and innovative, available 24/7. We need you to help us get there.
You and your role
We are looking for a Test Engineer who can help lead and manage the team. You will undertake execution plans, defect management and sprint planning. You will arrange for deployments, liaise with the Delivery Management practice, and make sure the environment is up-to-date.
We also want you to build and deliver comprehensive, robust and reliable automated test frameworks and automation suites to provide full coverage of business requirements. Our test engineers are critical to the success of DDSP; you’ll help maintain full traceability of defects, tests and requirements, you’ll design, build and maintain an effective test infrastructure, and you’ll create and maintain appropriate documentation within the test automation code base.
What are we looking for?
- Someone with a good understanding of Test Engineering best practices.
- Experience of Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT).
- Experience of Systems Integration Testing.
- Experience of Development and maintenance of automated test suites.
Where will you work?
You’ll join our brilliant team in Blackpool. Our Blackpool hub is accessible from across the North West. It’s a lovely nature-filled site, which we share with wild rabbits, birds, fish and otters. Inside we have a gym, restaurant, coffee shops and loads more.
In DDSP we believe in giving you a working experience that meets your needs and expectations and that means a focus on work-life balance, flexible hours, team-based working and the ability to work from multiple locations.
We are an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications regardless of age, disability, gender, race or sexuality.
Our Offer
In return for your skills we offer competitive salary up to £38,863, 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 and development, including coaching, mentoring, qualifications and accreditation, career progression opportunities and lots more.
CLICK APPLY for further information and to start an application on Civil Service Jobs.
If you have any questions of you want to discuss the role before you apply get in touch with me via dean.simon@dwp.gov.uk