Senior Test Engineer – Automation
| Posting date: | 23 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £46,062 per year |
| Additional salary information: | New entrants to the Civil Service will start their role on the salary band minimum £46,062 for National Roles or £50,182 for London Roles You may be eligible for an additional non-pensionable allowance, pending a Capability and Skills assessment, with a value of up to £11,338. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 March 2026 |
| Location: | Sheffield, South Yorkshire |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 448870 |
Summary
As a Senior 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.
Quality 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: Playwright, Selenium, RestAssured and several bespoke frameworks.
Platforms and Pipelines: PowerApps, Dynamics, Azure, AWS, GitHub Actions, Drone, Concourse, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform.
Performance testing – Locust, JMeter.
Other tools: Browserstack, Axe, ZAP, SonarQube.
Observability and Monitoring: ELK, Grafana, Dynatrace.
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.
Quality 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: Playwright, Selenium, RestAssured and several bespoke frameworks.
Platforms and Pipelines: PowerApps, Dynamics, Azure, AWS, GitHub Actions, Drone, Concourse, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform.
Performance testing – Locust, JMeter.
Other tools: Browserstack, Axe, ZAP, SonarQube.
Observability and Monitoring: ELK, Grafana, Dynatrace.
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