Principal Test Engineer – Automation and Innovation Centre
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 30 Mehefin 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | £73,900 i £86,690 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | New entrants to the Civil Service will start their role on the pay range minimum: £73,900 for national roles, £77,900 for London roles. You may be eligible for an additional non-pensionable allowance, pending a Capability and Skills Assessment, with a val |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 10 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Manchester |
| Cwmni: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 412657/2 |
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Quality is at the heart of everything we do. We provide a large-scale shared service, delivered through 900+ QA professionals. It supports services that are essential for the UK!
We won the Testing Team of the Year at the 2024 European Software Testing Awards and were also re-certified at TMMi level 5, receiving the best score globally.
This role will provide technical QA leadership within our Automation and Innovation Portfolio. The Home Office Automation and Innovation portfolio delivers the government's commitment to "set the standard for excellence in the AI age" - harnessing cutting-edge technology to revolutionise public service delivery. As outlined in the Government's Generative AI Framework, we're in "a period of rapid and exciting technological changes, which offers huge potential", and we're turning that potential into reality.
Our work spans Home Office mission-critical operations, such as transforming Border Security and immigration processes, to revolutionising asylum case management and enhancing Counter-Terrorism capabilities. Imagine developing technology that helps reunite families, creates safer communities, protects vulnerable people, and ensures smoother journeys for the millions travelling to and from the UK.
Key features of the role include opportunities to:
Transform Government with AI
Help deliver the UK government's AI vision while transforming the Home Office. Our Automation and Innovation portfolio is implementing the Government's Generative AI Framework, turning technological potential into reality.
National Scale Impact
Our work spans Border Security, Immigration, Asylum case management and Counter-Terrorism operations. Develop technology that reunites families, creates safer communities, protects vulnerable people, and improves UK travel experiences.
Public Sector Innovation at Pace
We've delivered millions in efficiency savings by automating routine tasks, allowing colleagues to focus on complex human-centred work. Our solutions create meaningful improvements in public service delivery.
Join Our Team
Work with our Automation Centre, Data Science and Evaluation team, or Innovation Lab to:
Build solutions improving lives nationwide.
Work with diverse AI and automation technologies.
Collaborate with technical experts.
Develop skills at the forefront of public sector innovation.
Help build a future-ready Home Office where innovation delivers daily impact. Ready to use cutting-edge technology to transform millions of lives across the UK?
As the Principal Test Engineer for the Automation and Innovation Portfolio, you’ll be critical to delivering testing, quality engineering, assurance and maturing the quality of our engineering practice. This will particularly excite you if you are a quality engineering expert with a keen interest and experience in low-code/no-code engineering (e.g. PowerApps) and have a keen interest in how AI systems are developed, evaluated and assured.
You will be part of the leadership team in the business area. You will provide leadership and guidance to a team of QAT engineers, further developing your own, Test engineering delivery management and leadership skills.
You will work with engineering, architecture, product, delivery and business stakeholders, understanding their needs and translating them into a QAT approach, driven by engineering at its core. You will also work with development teams to embed test engineering within the overall development approach and with industry partners to leverage the best of new and emerging tools and AI testing & assurance approaches. Within the DDaT community, you will take a lead in sharing, collaborating and promoting the value of QAT.
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:
- Cloud: AWS and Azure.
- Backend: Java, Node.js, C#, Python, PHP, Scala, Power Platform
- Test Frameworks: PowerApps test studio & test engine, Playwright, Python based frameworks like Pytest, and several bespoke frameworks.
- DevOps: Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Terraform
- AI: Azure ML Studio, Python, Github Copilot, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google
- Other tools: Inspect , Axe, Checkov, ZAP, SonarQube.
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