Test Engineer
| Posting date: | 18 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £34,233 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 July 2025 |
| Location: | Oldham |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 416952/5 |
Summary
Have you got good an understanding or experience of testing within a software delivery team?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) helps keep Britain moving, safely and sustainably. We do this by helping people through a lifetime of safe and sustainable journeys, helping them keep their vehicles safe to drive, and protecting them from unsafe drivers and vehicles.
We’re working hard to:
- make roads safer
- improve services for our customers
- make road transport greener and healthier
- harness the potential of technology and data
- grow and level up the economy
Read about the Benefits in the section below!
Find out more about what it's like working at DVSA: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency - Department for Transport Careers
The Test Engineer will play a critical leadership and technical role in the testing strategy and processes of large-scale DVSA digital services.
Working within a delivery focused Agile environment, and in collaboration with members of multidisciplinary Agile teams, you will play a key role in designing and implementing testing processes and strategies for a range of DVSA digital services. You will be responsible for the delivery of discrete, cost-effective test procedures to support the delivery of major initiatives.
You will share knowledge with wider teams, providing support where necessary. You will have a solid understanding of testing methodologies, both manual and automated, and knowledge of scripting languages and tools to support testing procedures.
You will ensure that DVSA-developed digital services function properly, meet defined business needs and operate in accordance with government and industry quality standards. You will work with development teams to identify and capture test cases, set up test environments and design and execute test plans for a range of DVSA digital projects and products.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
- Designing test processes, including delivery of test plans and objectives.
- Taking end-to-end ownership of technical tasks and solutions from initial concept to delivery to the production environment.
- Play a key leadership role in shaping and delivering digital testing strategies and procedures that meets business objectives.
- Empowering and directing other members of the team to achieve project success.
- Propose, influence, and negotiate technical solutions and testing strategies with senior stakeholders.
- Working closely with Lead test engineer, developers, product owners and wider scrum teams to develop a strong understanding of projects and testing objectives.
- Providing advice and guidance to stakeholders on test planning and execution processes.
For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
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