Lead Test Engineer
| Posting date: | 02 December 2024 |
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| Salary: | £60,300 to £60,300 per year |
| Additional salary information: | New entrants to the Civil Service will start their role on the pay range minimum: £60,300 for national roles, £64,300 for London roles. You may be eligible for an additional non-pensionable allowance, pending a Capability and Skills Assessment, with a val |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 December 2024 |
| Location: | Manchester |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 380716/2 |
Summary
Quality is at the heart of everything we do. We provide a large-scale shared service, delivered through 750 QA professionals. It supports services that are essential for the UK.
A strong continuous improvement culture underpins the way we work, making advancements on how quality is delivered and assured in groundbreaking DevOps environments, including cloud platforms. We are a well-established, well-knit team of quality specialists and among the best in the industry!
We recently won the Testing Team of the Year at the 2024 European Software Testing Awards and were also re-certified at TMMi level 5 earlier this year, receiving the best score globally.
Our Lead Test Engineers are held in high regard, well sought after, and highly valued members of the teams they work in.
We are seeking individuals with the skills required to solve engineering challenges of QAT approaches and build strong collaborator relationships. Working alongside impactful multi-disciplinary teams, you will use your technical, delivery and leadership skills to drive outstanding, industry standard quality engineering practices. Your success will be linked to the success of the teams you work with, and you will play a pivotal role in helping your team deliver outcomes, safely and securely.
You will be working in the Data Services and Analytics (DSA) area of the organisation. The mission of DSA is to be the leading provider of data insight services in Government. DSA hosts one of the most advanced data analytics centres in government, who strive to lead the way in the appropriate and proportionate use of data and analytics to deliver joined-up, intelligent services that unlock the value from data and improve decision making, policy and operations.
In return, we will invest in your learning and development, and you will be supported by guides in your job family, while having opportunities to mentor and be mentored. You will be a member of the test engineering practice. We invest in adopting innovative technology. We are actively developing quality strategies to assure AI based solutions, as well as its safe usage in quality engineering. Our test engineering practice will be a core part of these strategies.
QAT/Engineering Tools and Technologies we use:
We have a wide portfolio of projects, and our vast estate covers a whole range of tools. The below is sample snapshot of some tools we use:
- Frameworks: Pytest, Serenity BDD (Selenium + RestAssured), Cypress, Playwright, Karate, and several bespoke frameworks.
- DevOps: AWS, Jenkins, Drone, Docker, Kubernetes,
- Performance testing: JMeter
- Other tools: Axe, ZAP, SonarQube
- Observability and Monitoring: Grafana, Dynatrace
What you will do
Your main day to day responsibilities will be:
- setting the programme or product level strategy for the initiation, delivery and development of QAT solutions and working independently to deliver end to end QAT services.
- ownership of existing test frameworks and actively reviewing them, innovate and identify need for new frameworks, and delivering these at scale.
- leading and coaching a team of test engineers and helping solve technical challenges that the team may require assistance with, evaluating efficacy of test engineering processes across projects and suggesting improvements.
- managing test infrastructure usage and determining approach to running distributed, parallel tests. Using container & cloud technology to orchestrate faster, scalable tests while optimising costs.
- working with teams to promote use of code scan, code quality, accessibility testing and observability tools.
- promoting convergence, creating shared capabilities and data driven approaches within test engineering and participating in the QAT Test Engineering community.
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