Test Engineer

Would you love the opportunity to transform products and services that impact some of the most vulnerable citizens? Are you an experienced Test Engineer? We're looking for outstanding Test Engineers, who wants to contribute to demanding and exciting digital services for the UK Government. Be part of changing the face of public services with the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people. As a Test Engineer you will be part of a multi-functional agile delivery team. You will help to build automated test solutions that assure front line services and applications meet the needs of our agents and claimants. The successful candidate will be expected to collaborate with others, actively seek input from colleagues and value a multidisciplinary team over hierarchy. This role represents a unique opportunity to join a multidisciplinary team at DWP Digital and help deliver real value to people in society. As a Test Engineer, you will:

• Work alongside other engineers both within your team and the wider community to solve problems and enable consistent solutions and strategies.
• Build automated test solutions that help to assure the quality of our products, contribute towards their design and look for ways to improve the value automation adds.
• Ensure that usability, accessibility, security, stability and capacity are embedded in the development of services.
• Take a risk based, context driven approach to agile testing assessing and understanding the risks to drive decisions.
• Maintain and support Continuous Integration/Delivery pipelines to run a full range of tests against our products and assure our builds.
• Maintain traceability of testing, risks, defects and report progress to appropriate stakeholders.
• Challenge assumptions and current processes to help us improve our quality and our products.
Please note: This role is contracted to 42 hours per week.