17993 - Quality Engineer
| Posting date: | 29 May 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £42,914 to £53,081 per year |
| Additional salary information: | The national salary range is £42,914 - £46,182, London salary range is £49,325 - £53,081. Your salary will be dependent on your base location. London - £49,325 - £53,081 which may include an allowance up to £6,725. National - £42,914 - £46,182 which may include an allowance up to £8,761 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 June 2026 |
| Location: | UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Justice |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 17993 |
Summary
Quality Engineer
Location: National*
Closing Date: 12th June 2026
Interviews: W/C 29th June
Grade: SEO
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary**:
London - £49,325 - £53,081 which may include an allowance up to £6,725
National - £42,914 - £46,182 which may include an allowance up to £8,761
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
Contract Type: Permanent
Number of vacancies: 2
Vacancy number: 17993
*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
Please note that unless you are an existing member of staff at Justice Digital, Data and Science, the only London location being recruited to is 10 South Colonnade, E14 4PU. We are no longer recruiting to 102 Petty France, SW1H 9AJ.
The Role
Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. Please click on the link for details.
We’re recruiting for a Quality Engineer here at Justice Digital, Data and Science to be part of our warm and collaborative LAA Digital team.
This role aligns against Test Engineer from the Government Digital and Data Framework
The work we do is incredibly important to some of the most vulnerable people in our society. LAA Digital seeks to provide swift access to legal aid for those who need it and ensure efficient payment to providers of those services.
As a Quality Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring that digital services are reliable, scalable, and of high quality. Working alongside a multidisciplinary team, you will apply structured testing approaches, ensuring test strategies and quality plans align with project outcomes. You will also support the design and execution of functional and non-functional testing, ensuring that solutions meet the needs of users and stakeholders.
This is a hands-on role where you will have the opportunity to apply best practices, develop test automation, and integrate quality at every stage of development.
The community
You will be part of a collaborative and supportive engineering community, working with developers, product managers, user researchers, designers, business analysts, and delivery managers to embed quality into digital solutions.
We champion continuous learning, open communication, and agile methodologies, ensuring our teams thrive in an environment that is both inclusive and transparent.
We subscribe to the manifesto for agile software development and we're open and transparent. We believe in building quality into our products, systems and services and that quality is everyone's responsibility.
You’ll receive a range of excellent benefits when you join our department, including:
A generous employer pension contribution of 28.97% through the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
25 days of annual leave, (increasing to 30 days once you have reached 5 years of service), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, working part time or compressed hours. Designed to support a positive work–life balance.
Employees are allocated 10% of their working time for personal and professional development.
A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best-in-class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms.
Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
You can find more details of the Benefits we offer here. To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital, Data and Science please take a look at our blog.
Key Responsibilities:
Work with others to develop risk-based test strategies, test approaches and test plans that achieve functional and non-functional quality outcomes.
Choose and apply different types of tests and techniques to mitigate risks as early as possible, including using automation to assist with testing.
Design, develop, execute and maintain new and existing test suites including exploratory testing to simultaneously design and execute tests.
Collaborate with team members to provide clear, fast, frequent feedback about quality observations, issues, defects and any related trends, using the most appropriate style and channel of communication.
Work with others to satisfactorily resolve issues.
Create and maintain automated tests using existing automation frameworks, and with some support, extend test automation frameworks and tooling to improve the reliability and efficiency of test activities.
Contribute to the maintenance of CI/CD pipelines, ensuring automated tests run effectively within development workflows and troubleshooting faults with other engineers to resolve issues.
Follow engineering best practices, including source control, SOLID principles, and object-oriented programming.
Contribute to measuring what matters using the most appropriate metrics
Keep up to date with emerging testing methodologies, technologies, and tools, ensuring teams benefit from the latest industry practices.
If this feels like an exciting opportunity that you are enthusiastic about and want to join our warm and collaborative team, please read on and apply!
Location: National*
Closing Date: 12th June 2026
Interviews: W/C 29th June
Grade: SEO
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary**:
London - £49,325 - £53,081 which may include an allowance up to £6,725
National - £42,914 - £46,182 which may include an allowance up to £8,761
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
Contract Type: Permanent
Number of vacancies: 2
Vacancy number: 17993
*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
Please note that unless you are an existing member of staff at Justice Digital, Data and Science, the only London location being recruited to is 10 South Colonnade, E14 4PU. We are no longer recruiting to 102 Petty France, SW1H 9AJ.
The Role
Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. Please click on the link for details.
We’re recruiting for a Quality Engineer here at Justice Digital, Data and Science to be part of our warm and collaborative LAA Digital team.
This role aligns against Test Engineer from the Government Digital and Data Framework
The work we do is incredibly important to some of the most vulnerable people in our society. LAA Digital seeks to provide swift access to legal aid for those who need it and ensure efficient payment to providers of those services.
As a Quality Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring that digital services are reliable, scalable, and of high quality. Working alongside a multidisciplinary team, you will apply structured testing approaches, ensuring test strategies and quality plans align with project outcomes. You will also support the design and execution of functional and non-functional testing, ensuring that solutions meet the needs of users and stakeholders.
This is a hands-on role where you will have the opportunity to apply best practices, develop test automation, and integrate quality at every stage of development.
The community
You will be part of a collaborative and supportive engineering community, working with developers, product managers, user researchers, designers, business analysts, and delivery managers to embed quality into digital solutions.
We champion continuous learning, open communication, and agile methodologies, ensuring our teams thrive in an environment that is both inclusive and transparent.
We subscribe to the manifesto for agile software development and we're open and transparent. We believe in building quality into our products, systems and services and that quality is everyone's responsibility.
You’ll receive a range of excellent benefits when you join our department, including:
A generous employer pension contribution of 28.97% through the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
25 days of annual leave, (increasing to 30 days once you have reached 5 years of service), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, working part time or compressed hours. Designed to support a positive work–life balance.
Employees are allocated 10% of their working time for personal and professional development.
A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best-in-class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms.
Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
You can find more details of the Benefits we offer here. To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital, Data and Science please take a look at our blog.
Key Responsibilities:
Work with others to develop risk-based test strategies, test approaches and test plans that achieve functional and non-functional quality outcomes.
Choose and apply different types of tests and techniques to mitigate risks as early as possible, including using automation to assist with testing.
Design, develop, execute and maintain new and existing test suites including exploratory testing to simultaneously design and execute tests.
Collaborate with team members to provide clear, fast, frequent feedback about quality observations, issues, defects and any related trends, using the most appropriate style and channel of communication.
Work with others to satisfactorily resolve issues.
Create and maintain automated tests using existing automation frameworks, and with some support, extend test automation frameworks and tooling to improve the reliability and efficiency of test activities.
Contribute to the maintenance of CI/CD pipelines, ensuring automated tests run effectively within development workflows and troubleshooting faults with other engineers to resolve issues.
Follow engineering best practices, including source control, SOLID principles, and object-oriented programming.
Contribute to measuring what matters using the most appropriate metrics
Keep up to date with emerging testing methodologies, technologies, and tools, ensuring teams benefit from the latest industry practices.
If this feels like an exciting opportunity that you are enthusiastic about and want to join our warm and collaborative team, please read on and apply!