Quality Assurance & Test (QAT) - Test Engineer

Government Digital & Data • Full-time • Croydon, Greater London, England, United Kingdom • £41.30k - £44.19k / year • 2d ago

Job summary

The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, fire, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports.

Home Office Digital, Data and Technology designs, builds and develops services for the rest of the department and for government. Every year our systems support up to 3 million visa applications, checks on 100 million border crossings, up to 8 million passport applications and deliver 140 million police checks on people, vehicles and property.

The Home Office leads on immigration and passports, refugee protection, counter-terrorism, policing, fire services, and crime and drugs policy.

This is an exciting time to be at the Home Office. You’ll have a chance to shape the future and support our mission to deliver exceptional public services that work for everyone.

Our work is guided by these principles:

We put user needs first
We value delivery and outcomes over process
We work in the open

Our flexible working policy ensures a healthy work-life balance. We also nurture talent and offer a broad range of learning and development opportunities that will help you flourish in your role.

Job description

As a Test Engineer, you will adopt an engineering approach to achieving quality. You will be involved in assuring, measuring, and building quality into every phase of the software development life cycle. In doing so, you will seek to implement product level Test Engineering approaches which are in line with the portfolio Test engineering approach and QAT Test Engineering principles.

You will be involved in solving engineering challenges of QAT approaches adopted in projects that you work with. This involves developing and running scalable tests and processes that are faster, frequent, and continuous. You will be expected to build relationships with Software engineering, DevOps, Product and Project delivery partners to help make sure QAT is embedded by default into the development approach.

You will seek guidance and support from other members of the Test Engineering community to help develop your own technical and delivery management skills.

To help the QAT practice thrive, you will also learn about emerging tools and approaches and work out how these could help the organisation to deliver better success. You will be an active member of the QAT Test Engineering community as well as share, collaborate and promote the value of QAT within the larger Home Office Government Digital and Data Profession community.

Key Responsibilities:

writing automated tests using existing test automation frameworks. You will develop tests that are predictable, repeatable and implement automated verification of acceptance criteria to the greatest possible extent. You may also need to make minor enhancements to existing test frameworks when required.
configuring, monitoring, and triggering tests to run on demand, and using service virtualisation, data mocking, contract testing or other approaches to integration testing.
adopting automated approaches to test data management, test results aggregation and release management. Providing precise, real-time reports of automation test runs to stakeholders.
running distributed, parallel tests that are designed to run efficiently and quickly.
interpreting data from code scan, code quality and observability tools to provide actionable feedback in aiding quality improvement.
participating in the QAT Test Engineering community to help grow it.

Other day to day activities may depend on the delivery approach, business area or requirements of the product team.