Senior Test Engineer


Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Salary:	£57,946 to £78,250 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	LS2 7UA
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	8 Sept 2026
Closing date:	20 Sept 2026

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Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'. In order to be put forward for security checks please be aware you must have resided continuously in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years, 2 of which must have been the immediately preceding years from the point of applying for this job.

We’re looking for outstanding Senior Test Engineer to support testing within Data and Analytics.

In Data and Analytics we are a key part of DWP Digital's modernisation programme. This area owns data enabling products and is responsible for transformation to bring D&A managed data through new products. You will be working with Teams that are on the forefront of Data Transformation and as such, requires an experienced, self-motivated, and confident Senior Test Engineer.

As a Senior Test Engineer you will define the overall testing strategy, provide technical leadership and guidance to test engineering teams, and have oversight of all testing activities. You will ensure that best practices are in place, and drive improvements by sharing knowledge and resources across teams.

As Senior Test Engineer you will help define and implement the strategy for building automation test solutions that help to assure the quality of products that make up DWPs digital services leading Test Engineers across several delivery teams, providing technical leadership and guidance.

Drive teams to take a risk based and context driven approaches and techniques to validate and ensure appropriate data transformations.
Build automation test solutions that help to assure the quality of our products, contribute towards their design, and look for way to improve the value automation adds to data transformation.
Ensure that security, latency, scalability, stability, and capacity are embedded in the development of services.
Lead the traceability of testing, managing risks and defects, whilst reporting progress to appropriate stakeholders across several teams.
Lead the adoptions of Continuous Integration/Delivery pipelines to run a full range of tests against our products and assure our builds.
Experience working in agile environment in multi-functional teams.
Drive collaboration across engineers of different roles both within your team and the wider teams to solve problems and enable consistent solutions and strategies.
Proactively share knowledge, solutions, tooling and support our internal communities along with mentoring, coaching, and supporting your peers and line manage Test Engineers.

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