Senior Test Engineer
Role Overview
Join HMRC's Quality Assurance and Testing Profession, collaborating with product owners, developers, architects, business analysts, and operations teams.
Deliver high-quality, resilient, and scalable digital services for HMRC customers.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Join HMRC's Quality Assurance and Testing Profession, collaborating with product owners, developers, architects, business analysts, and operations teams.
Deliver high-quality, resilient, and scalable digital services for HMRC customers.
Job description
- Lead planning, design, execution, and reporting of Performance and Volume Testing, including workload modelling, capacity planning, and performance analysis.
- Support Operational Acceptance Testing, infrastructure assurance, resilience, and operational-readiness testing as required.
- Define non-functional requirements, workload models, acceptance criteria, test strategies, and environment-validation approaches.
- Analyze test results, infrastructure behavior, and operational metrics to identify bottlenecks, defects, root causes, and service risks; recommend improvements.
- Develop and maintain automated performance testing and validation solutions using tools, scripting languages, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and knowledge sharing; improve testing capability within Borders and Trade.
Person specification
- The role centers on leading Performance and Volume Testing across cloud-based applications, platforms, and infrastructure.
- The supplied description ends during the person specification, so further candidate requirements are not available.
Salary
- The listed salary range is £45,544–£49,523; the posting does not specify a salary cadence.
- External applicants will join on the pay band minimum. A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97% is listed.
Contract and working pattern
- The contract is permanent.
- The listed working patterns include flexible working, full-time, job share, and part-time.
Locations
- The posting lists Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Telford, and Worthing.
About HMRC
The role sits in HMRC's Chief Digital and Information Office, which delivers in-house solutions for technical and operational issues.
CDIO offers learning and development opportunities, including technical learning, professional communities, academies, and apprenticeships.
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