Are you passionate about quality and looking to make a real impact? At the Home Office, quality isn’t an afterthought, it’s at the heart of everything we deliver. Our award-winning Quality Assurance and Testing (QAT) team, part of Digital, Data and Technology, supports critical national services used by millions every day, from passports to policing and border security.
With a community of over 750 QA professionals, we deliver a large-scale shared service across some of the most important systems in the UK. Driven by a strong culture of continuous improvement, we’re shaping the future of quality in modern DevOps environments, leveraging cloud platforms, innovative tooling, and evolving practices including AI-enabled quality engineering.
As a Lead Test Engineer, you’ll be part of a highly respected, collaborative community, working on complex challenges, influencing how quality is engineered at scale, and playing a key role in delivering secure, reliable services that truly matter.
What you will do
* Ownership of existing test frameworks and actively reviewing them, identifying need for new frameworks, and delivering these at scale.
* Leading and coaching a team of test engineers and helping solve technical challenges that the team may require assistance with, evaluating efficacy of test engineering processes across projects and suggesting improvements. Promoting convergence, creating shared capabilities and data driven approaches within test engineering.
* Embracing innovation - evaluating tools and recommending approaches that can benefit testing. For instance, ones used for virtualisation, data mocking, contract testing or other automated integration testing techniques, and determining tools and approaches for automated test data management, test results aggregation and release management. Enabling precise, real-time reports of automation test runs and also roll-up reports.
* Managing test infrastructure usage and determining approach to running distributed, parallel tests. Using container and cloud technology to orchestrate faster, scalable tests while optimising costs.
* Working with teams to promote use of code scan, code quality, accessibility testing and observability tools.
* Participating in the QAT Test Engineering community as well as QAT recruitment to help grow it.
What you will bring
* Programming using Java to write secure, reusable, and maintainable automated tests and test utilities. You should be able to use concepts like thread management, synchronisation, resource, and memory management to increase the efficiency of test engineering solutions and be able to use scripting languages like Bash or PowerShell (Lead essential criteria).
* Using and implementing tools like Selenium, RestAssured, Serenity BDD (or similar), build tools like Maven or Gradle, code management tools like git.
* Using and implementing unit test frameworks like JUnit, assertion libraries, data serialisation tools, security best practices like OWASP Top 10 and standards such as WCAG to design automated accessibility tests.
* Extensively using CI/CD tools for pipeline automation and a solid understanding of release pipeline concepts. Familiarity with containerization platforms like Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
* Using and implementing POM test design pattern and SOLID code design principle. Implementing coding guidelines and standards with a solid understanding of protocols and architectural styles involved in implementing tests.
* Ability to actively engage with performance testing engineers and work alongside them to identify performance bottlenecks. Ability to read, interpret and articulate performance reports.
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: Serenity BDD (Selenium + RestAssured), Playwright, and several bespoke frameworks.
* Performance testing – Locust, JMeter.
* Observability and Monitoring: ELK, Grafana, Dynatrace.
Additional Information
Your CV and Personal Statement will both be assessed. Your Personal Statement should clearly evidence your experience against the essential skills, using the STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result). Make full use of the word count to create a comprehensive and compelling application. STAR - https://lnkd.in/gs8mx4WN
Useful support on Home Office recruitment process including: Success Profiles tips video, Personal
Information on the Pay Framework Allowance (PFA) - https://lnkd.in/e3YnyGdG
Discover more about our work by watching this DDaT video https://lnkd.in/e4aHnawp
Please note - 3+ years UK residency is typically required to be eligible for SC Clearance and unfortunately we cannot offer sponsorship.
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