Lead Test Engineer
Posted 5 days ago by Public Sector Resourcing
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Lead Test Engineer role at DWP involves defining and implementing automation test strategies to ensure the quality of digital services. This position requires leadership and technical expertise to guide test engineering teams in delivering secure and efficient services. The role is hybrid, requiring three days a week in one of several specified cities. The contract is for 12 months and classified as inside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Set direction for service/capability and teams in line with overarching strategy.
- Ensure team work aligns to standards and follows best practices.
- Focus on delivering quality, assured, and secure services.
- Assess the impact of changes made within the team.
- Maintain an outward-facing viewpoint to understand team and product positioning.
Key Skills:
- Experience in designing and implementing test strategy for distributed microservices.
- Experience in contract testing and component testing (API, message-based asynchronous testing).
- Experience with non-relational databases (e.g., MongoDB).
- Strong technical automation skills (Java or TypeScript/JavaScript preferred).
- Experience in non-functional testing (performance testing, accessibility testing).
- Experience in CI/CD pipelines.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
On behalf of DWP we are looking for a Lead Test Engineer for a 12 month (Inside IR35) contract. Hybrid working with 3 days per week in either Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle, Sheffield or Blackpool. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives . Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities t o: Help people to move into work and support those already in work to progress, with the aim of increasing overall workforce participat ionHelp people to plan and save for later life, while providing a safety net for those who need it nowProvide effective, efficient, and innovative services to the millions of claimants who rely on us every day, including the most vulnerable in soci etyImprove experience of our services while maximising value for money for the taxpay er.
As a Lead Test Engineer you will define and implement the strategy for building automation test solutions that help to assure the quality of products that make up DWPs digital services providing leadership, guidance and technical expertise to the test engineering te ams. As a Lead Test Engineer your main responsibilities will b e to:
- Set direction for your service/capability and teams that is in line with overarching strategy (which you have the ability to influ ence).
- Ensure that your teams work aligns to stan dards.
- Have a clear focus on delivering quality, assured and secure ser vices.
- Ensure that you team follow best pra ctice.
- Be aware of and assess impact of any change that you are m aking.
- Have an outward facing viewpoint, understanding where your team and products fit into the bigger pi cture.
Ess ential: Have experience in designing and implementing test strategy for distributed microservices from Monolith service across multipl e teams.Experience in contract testing and component testing such as API, message based asynchronous testing such as Kafka or similar tec hnology.Experience in non-relational databases I.e. mongo db or s imilar .Strong technical automation skills with the ability to write well-structured reusable maintainable tests and test utilities (Java or TS/JS pre ferred).Have experience in non-functional experience such as performance testing, ( Gatling, K6) and accessibility testing.Have experience in CI/CD pi pelines.