Senior Test Engineer x 5

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Help teams establish technical frameworks, document approaches and processes, and resolve technical impediments across projects.
• Work with the Lead Test Engineer to anticipate and resolve technical issues.
• Advocate best practice, conduct in-depth reviews, and report quality improvements and successes.
• Update technical practices and quality frameworks; teach, mentor, and model effective test implementation.
• Perform technical and business analysis and develop tooling to assist testing and address potential future issues.
• Understand system processes and architecture to assess issues and impacts.
• Build relationships and represent the testing community in other practices to support improvements.

Essential qualifications and experience

• ISTQB Foundation in Software Testing.
• Degree in Computing or equivalent.
• Practitioner-level experience in automated testing and automated test tools, and understanding of environment needs and capabilities.
• Practitioner-level experience in functional and non-functional testing and breadth across technical tools and techniques.
• Practitioner-level technical analysis, including assessing conflicting information to determine solutions.
• Experience in integration practices and training and mentoring technical test skills.

Desirable qualifications

• Advanced Technical Test Analyst qualification is desirable and assessed only as a tie-breaker.
• Advanced Test Automation Engineer qualification is desirable and assessed only as a tie-breaker.

Workplace and schedule

• At least 60% of working time is expected to be spent in the office.
• The role requires a minimum of 30 hours per week; the advertised working patterns include full-time and part-time.
• Advertised locations include Croydon, Coventry, Gloucester, and Plymouth.

Benefits

• Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
• The salary range is £49,443–£54,952, including a non-pensionable Government Digital and Data Profession Pay Framework Supplement.