Put your career on the map
Total Remuneration:
starting at £50,411 with annual progression increasing to £59,353
Pay Supplement:
The base salary for this role is £46,677 - £54,957. This job qualifies for Digital, Data and Technology Annual Pay supplement 8% which is included in the total remuneration above.
Pension
: 28.97% of base salary (RoS contribution)
Annual Leave:
38 days annual holiday, increasing to 42 days with length of service.
Duration
: Permanent
Working Pattern
: 35 hours per week. We are a flexible employer and will consider a variety of working patterns.
Location
: Home / Office hybrid working. Offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh. While many team activities and community events will take place in-person, we expect a flexible hybrid approach, with time spent in either office based on business needs.
Grade:
Senior Executive Officer (Please Note
:
If this campaign establishes a reserve list, we may make an offer at a lower grade. Any offer will be discussed with you before it is confirmed)
Closing date
: 12 October at 11.59pm
Registers of Scotland (RoS)
Join an award-winning organisation recognised for its technology and innovation. RoS is a world-leading pioneer in land and property registration. We work to create data-led, digital solutions for the people of Scotland. Our full-stack teams design, architect, and build all our registration products in-house.
The Role
Join our innovative tech team as a Senior Test Engineer and lead the delivery of high-quality testing across our platforms and services. You'll shape testing strategies, support team development, and ensure our services are robust, accessible, and user focused. You'll collaborate with engineers, analysts, and product teams to embed quality throughout the delivery lifecycle. This is a hands-on leadership role, ideal for someone passionate about testing, automation, and inclusive digital services. You will also take ownership of test tooling decisions, define automation framework architecture, and lead CI/CD test integration
improvements.
What We're Looking For
* You're committed to driving quality and continuous improvement across teams.
* You're confident mentoring and developing others and enjoy helping colleagues grow.
* You're proactive and take ownership of testing strategy and delivery.
* You care about inclusive services and embedding accessibility into how teams work.
* You enjoy collaboration and can influence and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
On a typical day you will…
* Define, lead, and continuously improve test strategies, plans, and processes across multiple delivery teams.
* Promote test automation and continuous integration practices across development workflows.
* Lead the design, maintenance, and evolution of automated test suites and frameworks.
* Take ownership of test tooling strategy, including evaluation and standardisation across teams.
* Advocate for early involvement of testing and quality assurance in product lifecycle planning across the organisation.
* Lead accessibility best practice within the team and contribute to organisation-wide accessibility standards and training.
* Challenge teams and use governance structures to identify and reduce accessibility-related delivery risks.
* Lead the recruitment, onboarding, and development of testing talent.
* Represent test and accessibility interests across departments and in cross-government communities of practice.
* Collaborate with delivery teams to ensure robust test coverage across functional, non-functional, exploratory, and accessibility areas.
* Work with developers to identify test scenarios and contribute to code quality through review and feedback.
* Ensure testing efforts cover cross-cutting concerns, including security, performance, usability, and accessibility.
* Lead defect management processes, using patterns and trends to drive quality improvements.
* Manage stakeholder expectations and communication during defect triage and resolution.
* Lead incident investigation and root cause analysis for live service issues.
* Drive the integration of test activities into CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins and GitLab.
* Support test coverage analysis using code metrics and ensure test code quality standards are met.
This job is for you if you want…
* Work with purpose:
we strive to provide the best public service and set the bar for land and property registration worldwide.
* Flexible and hybrid working:
, work when and where it's best for you and your stakeholders, depending on the role and team requirements.
* Benefits:
enjoy pay progression, pension contributions of up to 29%, up to a year's parental leave, and 38 days annual holiday, increasing to 42 days with length of service.
* Investment in professional development:
we invest in all our people so that they have the right skills to be productive and confident in their job.
* Diversity and Inclusion:
We are an 'Investor in People' and a 'Disability Confident' employer. We are inclusive, stronger together, and committed to putting our people first.
* Positive work culture:
RoS is an agile, digital organisation using leading-edge technology. Colleagues understand their role in achieving our strategy and have the autonomy to deliver.
To learn more about RoS and the benefits we offer visit our
careers pages
or
watch this short video
.
Hear directly from our colleagues about their experience of working within our Digital, Data and Technology teams
on our website.
Our Tech stack
* Languages & Frameworks:
Java Spring Boot, Python Flask, TypeScript React
Testing & QA:
Cypress, Playwright, React Testing Library, Axe-core, Postman
CI/CD & DevOps:
GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, OpenShift, AWS CDK
Monitoring & Logging:
Grafana, AWS OpenSearch. Elasticsearch
Code Quality:
SonarQube
Data & Migrations:
PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Secrets & Security:
AWS Secrets Manager, Ansible Vault, Secret Server
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