Head of Quality Engineering
| Posting date: | 22 June 2026 |
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| Salary: | £69,501 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 July 2026 |
| Location: | Leeds, West Yorkshire |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Government Recruitment |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 465635 |
Summary
The role requires a high level of strategic thinking, technical understanding, capability building, and the ability to influence organisational change, enabling teams to adopt scalable, modern approaches to quality across DVSA.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
Demonstrate leadership by providing influence, direction, and guidance to staff to support the delivery of organisational objectives.
Define and execute a long-term quality and testing strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives, user needs and DVSA’s digital strategy.
Guide and influence testing and quality engineering practices across product teams, promoting consistent and scalable approaches to quality.
Drive the integration of quality engineering practices at every stage of the software development lifecycle, ensuring quality is embedded from design through to delivery and operation.
Promote the adoption of automation and scalable quality frameworks that support efficient, reliable and repeatable delivery across product teams.
Shape and refine testing and quality engineering design principles, governance, metrics, and reporting, ensuring clear visibility of quality across DVSA services.
Establish a strong direction and a persuasive future vision for quality engineering and digital service assurance across DVSA.
Manage and engage with honesty and integrity, acting as a role model and upholding the reputation of the Agency, Department and Civil Service.
Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
Demonstrate leadership by providing influence, direction, and guidance to staff to support the delivery of organisational objectives.
Define and execute a long-term quality and testing strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives, user needs and DVSA’s digital strategy.
Guide and influence testing and quality engineering practices across product teams, promoting consistent and scalable approaches to quality.
Drive the integration of quality engineering practices at every stage of the software development lifecycle, ensuring quality is embedded from design through to delivery and operation.
Promote the adoption of automation and scalable quality frameworks that support efficient, reliable and repeatable delivery across product teams.
Shape and refine testing and quality engineering design principles, governance, metrics, and reporting, ensuring clear visibility of quality across DVSA services.
Establish a strong direction and a persuasive future vision for quality engineering and digital service assurance across DVSA.
Manage and engage with honesty and integrity, acting as a role model and upholding the reputation of the Agency, Department and Civil Service.
Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.