Senior Test Engineer

On behalf of DWP, we are looking for a Senior Test Engineer for a 12 Month (Inside IR35) hybrid contract based 3 days per week in Newcastle.

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.

As a Senior Test Engineer, you will work within the Digital Modernisation & Efficiency (DME) team to support the delivery of accessible user centred designed services to both citizen and DWP colleagues. This role requires excellent attention to detail, a commitment to quality, a belief in the benefits of faster feedback and the ability to make decisions to manage well assured services. Performing both manual and automated testing to ensure the highest level of quality possible.

Responsibilities

You will collaborate with others, actively seek input from colleagues and value a multi-disciplinary team over hierarchy, working alongside and providing leadership to other Test Engineers as well as both Software and DevOps engineers within the teams around you and the wider community to deliver consistent solutions and strategies.

Technical Skills
. Experience in testing across the life cycle from understanding business needs to delivery into production. Including test automation, test script generation, reporting and defect management.
. Demonstrable skills in a modern programming language and software testing practices and aptitude to learn more, covering Java, Selenium, Cucumber, Rest Assured, JUnit, JMeter, OWASP, ZAP and Browserstack
. Experience building and maintaining comprehensive, robust, and reliable automated functional tests against UI's and API's including driving improvements to frameworks.
. Experience of conducting and enabling non-functional testing such as Acceptance, Performance, Security and Accessibility - including test types, test tools, and standards.
. Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team in an agile environment.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, DWP guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

DWP guarantees to interview veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates/military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".