Test Engineer
| Posting date: | 27 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £41,300 to £44,191 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Recruitment Retention Allowance (RRA): Up to £4,000 is available for candidates who demonstrate exceptional skills and experience. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 August 2025 |
| Location: | Croydon |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 422805/1 |
Summary
Home Office Digital, Data and Technology designs, builds and develops services for the rest of the department and for government. Every year our systems support up to 3 million visa applications, checks on 100 million border crossings, up to 8 million passport applications and deliver 140 million police checks on people, vehicles and property.
As a Test Engineer, you will adopt an engineering approach to achieving quality. You will be involved in assuring, measuring, and building quality into every phase of the software development life cycle. In doing so, you will seek to implement product level Test Engineering approaches which are in line with the portfolio Test engineering approach and QAT Test Engineering principles.
You will be involved in solving engineering challenges of QAT approaches adopted in projects that you work with. This involves developing and running scalable tests and processes that are faster, frequent, and continuous. You will be expected to build relationships with Software engineering, DevOps, Product and Project delivery partners to help make sure QAT is embedded by default into the development approach.
You will seek guidance and support from other members of the Test Engineering community to help develop your own technical and delivery management skills.
To help the QAT practice thrive, you will also learn about emerging tools and approaches and work out how these could help the organisation to deliver better success. You will be an active member of the QAT Test Engineering community as well as share, collaborate and promote the value of QAT within the larger Home Office Government Digital and Data Profession community.
The current building location for this role is Croydon.
Key Responsibilities
Your main day to day responsibilities will be:
· Writing automated tests using existing test automation frameworks. You will develop tests that are predictable, repeatable and implement automated verification of acceptance criteria to the greatest possible extent. You may also need to make minor enhancements to existing test frameworks when required.
· Configuring, monitoring, and triggering tests to run on demand, and using service virtualisation, data mocking, contract testing or other approaches to integration testing.
· Adopting automated approaches to test data management, test results aggregation and release management. Providing precise, real-time reports of automation test runs to stakeholders.
· Running distributed, parallel tests that are designed to run efficiently and quickly.
· Interpreting data from code scan, code quality and observability tools to provide actionable feedback in aiding quality improvement.
· Participating in the QAT Test Engineering community to help grow it.
Other day to day activities may depend on the delivery approach, business area or requirements of the product team.
Working Pattern
Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis.
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