The Home Office Quality Assurance and Testing (QAT) team is looking for passionate individuals to join its award-winning community of over 750 QA professionals, supporting critical UK services and driving continuous improvement across DevOps and cloud platforms. Recently recognised as Testing Team of the Year at the 2024 European Software Testing Awards and re‑certified at TMMi Level 5 with a global best score, QAT is known for its industry‑leading standards.
As a Lead Test Engineer within the Core Cloud team, you will play a key role in building a new strategic hosting platform on AWS, helping shape modern quality engineering practices and enhance the developer experience across Home Office Digital. This role is ideal for a quality engineering specialist with an interest in platform engineering, or an experienced platform engineer with a strong focus on quality, developing automated test frameworks and embedding quality by default across complex cloud platform capabilities.
What you will do
* Setting the direction for QAT Strategy and Test Engineering within the AWS‑focused strategic cloud platform.
* Developing and implementing innovative tooling and DevSecOps best practices.
* Guiding, mentoring, and supporting engineers at all levels, including junior QAT engineers.
* Providing technical advice to improve engineering processes and practices.
* Embedding Infrastructure as Code test frameworks and implementing a modern test pyramid aligned with CI/CD pipelines.
* Building scalable, efficient, and cost‑effective quality engineering solutions, while measuring code quality and using risk‑based decision‑making to help the QAT practice thrive through innovation.
What you will bring
* Collaborating with a wide variety of stakeholders to implement effective quality measures and mechanisms.
* Strong technical automation skills with the ability to write well‑structured reusable maintainable tests and test utilities (Java, Python, TS/JS preferred).
* Leading a technical team of test engineers, this includes experience with DevSecOps, Cloud Platforms, Containers, Networking, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), SCM e.g. GitHub / Bitbucket.
* Design and deliver platform test approaches involving test automation environments, utilising virtualisation and containerisation.
* Experienced with DevSecOps environment including IaC testing, Unit testing, Contract testing, API testing, E2E testing, Resilience testing.
* Develop and enhance platform test engineering tools to support QA, Testing and Software Development in complex environments, with experience in AWS, Linux, AWS SDK, Pytest and TerraTest, CI/CD tools. eg. Jenkins/ GitHub Actions/ArgoCD.
QAT/Engineering Tools and Technologies we use:
We have a wide portfolio of tools across the programme including:
* Cloud: AWS (primary) and Azure
* Test Frameworks: Terraform Test, Terratest, Pytest, Serenity BDD (Selenium + RestAssured), Playwright, and several bespoke frameworks.
* DevOps: AWS LZA, GitHub and GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
* Performance testing – Locust, JMeter
* Other tools – AWS FIS, Checkov, ZAP, SonarQube
* Observability and Monitoring – ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, 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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