18641 - Lead Quality Engineer
| Posting date: | 10 June 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £71,381 to £85,257 per year |
| Additional salary information: | The national salary is £71,381 - £80,419. London salary is £75,674 - £85,257. Your salary will be dependent on your base location |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 June 2026 |
| Location: | UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Justice |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 18641 |
Summary
The Role
Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. Please click on the link for details.
We’re recruiting for Lead Quality Engineers here at Justice Digital, Data and Science to be part of our warm and collaborative Probation and Legal Aid Agency (LAA) Digital teams.
This role aligns against Lead Test Engineer from the Government Digital and Data Framework
Probation Digital builds and supports digital services that probation practitioners rely on every day to manage risk, record accurate information, and deliver effective supervision.
These services directly support better outcomes for individuals, communities and the justice system as a whole. The work we do is incredibly important to public safety and to the people under probation supervision.
LAA Digital seeks to provide swift access to legal aid for those who need it and ensure efficient payment to providers of those services. The work we do is incredibly important to some of the most vulnerable people in our society.
As a Lead Quality Engineer, you will provide expert guidance, coaching, and mentorship to teams, ensuring that best practices are adopted and embedded.
Our Lead Quality Engineers are expected to bring deep expertise in one of the following specialisms:
• Non-Functional (Performance)
• Test Automation (frameworks, tooling, CI/CD integration)
• AI in Quality Engineering (use of AI to enhance quality practices, test generation, analysis and optimisation)
• Engineering Quality Practices (unit testing, TDD, code quality, testability)
• Test Management & Capability (governance, quality metrics, community driver)
• Data (consistency, accuracy, integrity, interoperability and integration)
Candidates must select one specialism and clearly demonstrate depth in this area within their personal statement.[RB1]
You will operate both as a quality leader and as an expert in your chosen specialism, contributing to the continuous evolution of our organisational strategic quality practices, advocating for early testing involvement and a shift towards a proactive, quality-first culture. t
Your role will be instrumental in influencing quality metrics, governance, and continuous optimisation of strategies, test plans, methodologies and standards related to your specialism.
This role requires a combination of technical expertise, leadership and the ability to influence organisational change.
The Team
You will be part of a forward thinking and innovative community, working closely with the engineering community, product managers, user researchers, designers, business analysts, and delivery managers to embed quality and testing excellence.
We cultivate an inclusive, diverse, transparent and agile environment. We believe in building quality into our products, systems and services and that quality is everyone’s responsibility. We encourage collaboration, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.
Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. Please click on the link for details.
We’re recruiting for Lead Quality Engineers here at Justice Digital, Data and Science to be part of our warm and collaborative Probation and Legal Aid Agency (LAA) Digital teams.
This role aligns against Lead Test Engineer from the Government Digital and Data Framework
Probation Digital builds and supports digital services that probation practitioners rely on every day to manage risk, record accurate information, and deliver effective supervision.
These services directly support better outcomes for individuals, communities and the justice system as a whole. The work we do is incredibly important to public safety and to the people under probation supervision.
LAA Digital seeks to provide swift access to legal aid for those who need it and ensure efficient payment to providers of those services. The work we do is incredibly important to some of the most vulnerable people in our society.
As a Lead Quality Engineer, you will provide expert guidance, coaching, and mentorship to teams, ensuring that best practices are adopted and embedded.
Our Lead Quality Engineers are expected to bring deep expertise in one of the following specialisms:
• Non-Functional (Performance)
• Test Automation (frameworks, tooling, CI/CD integration)
• AI in Quality Engineering (use of AI to enhance quality practices, test generation, analysis and optimisation)
• Engineering Quality Practices (unit testing, TDD, code quality, testability)
• Test Management & Capability (governance, quality metrics, community driver)
• Data (consistency, accuracy, integrity, interoperability and integration)
Candidates must select one specialism and clearly demonstrate depth in this area within their personal statement.[RB1]
You will operate both as a quality leader and as an expert in your chosen specialism, contributing to the continuous evolution of our organisational strategic quality practices, advocating for early testing involvement and a shift towards a proactive, quality-first culture. t
Your role will be instrumental in influencing quality metrics, governance, and continuous optimisation of strategies, test plans, methodologies and standards related to your specialism.
This role requires a combination of technical expertise, leadership and the ability to influence organisational change.
The Team
You will be part of a forward thinking and innovative community, working closely with the engineering community, product managers, user researchers, designers, business analysts, and delivery managers to embed quality and testing excellence.
We cultivate an inclusive, diverse, transparent and agile environment. We believe in building quality into our products, systems and services and that quality is everyone’s responsibility. We encourage collaboration, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.