Test Engineer

Responsibilities

• Test strategy and approach
• Define, own and communicate test strategies aligned to delivery, business risk and government service standards
• Select and tailor test approaches (manual, automated, exploratory, risk-based) for complex systems and integrations
• Advise delivery and product leadership on test scope, entry/exit criteria and quality risks
• Balance pragmatism with assurance, keeping testing proportionate within agile delivery
• Test automation
• Lead the design and evolution of automated test frameworks (UI, API or service-level), aligned to the team's tech stack
• Decide what should and should not be automated, considering value, maintainability and risk
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and help teams improve feedback cycles
• Evaluate and recommend community testing tools, frameworks and practices
• Non-functional testing
• Plan, build and run non-functional testing, including performance, accessibility, security, resilience and interoperability
• Work with specialists and suppliers to make sure coverage is right where tooling or expertise is shared
• Interpret test results and explain the business and user impact, not just the technical outcome
• Make sure NFT evidence is strong enough to support confident release decisions

Tech stack

• JavaScript-based test automation: WebdriverIO, Playwright or Cypress
• API testing with open-source JS libraries or Postman and Newman CLI
• JMeter or k6 for load and performance testing
• CI pipelines using Jenkins and AWS, or ADO in Azure
• GitHub and GitLab source control
• Reporting tools for automated tests
• BrowserStack Live and Automate for compatibility testing

Experience

• Strong JavaScript and WebdriverIO test framework experience
• Exploratory testing techniques focused on the areas of greatest risk
• Accessibility testing to GDS standards
• Using collaboration tools for requirement analysis and defect capture
• Working in an agile team to GDS standards and principles

This role requires active SC clearance.