Associate Test Engineer Level II - DWP - HEO

The Child Maintenance Service aim is to improve children’s lives through the provision of effective child maintenance arrangements. In Children and Families Digital, we help run and maintain products and services that improve the outcomes for children, by enabling parents to put in place and manage sustainable child maintenance arrangements in an efficient and convenient way.

As an Associate Test Engineer, you will be part of a multi-functional agile delivery team, understanding requirements and creating automated test scripts, to deliver quality services consistently, that meet the needs of our customers.

The successful candidate will be expected to collaborate with others, actively seek input from colleagues and value a multidisciplinary team over hierarchy.

This role represents a unique opportunity to join the Children team at DWP Digital, to be part of a team delivering real value.

Job description

As an Associate Test Engineer Level II, you will: 

• Work alongside other engineers both within your team and the wider community to help solve problems and enable consistency.
• Build automation tests that help to assure the quality of our products, contribute towards their design, and look for ways to improve the value automation adds.
• Support teams to include usability, accessibility, security, stability and capacity in the development of services.
• Take a risk based, context driven approach to agile testing assessing and understanding the risks to drive decisions with support.
• Understand continuous integration, delivery and deployment concepts.
• Maintain traceability of testing, risks, defects, and report progress to appropriate stakeholders with support.
• Understand the test infrastructure setup being used.
• Identify test data requirements and create data sets.
• Commit to continuous personal development, learning and training.

Person specification

When giving details in your CV you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below:

• [Lead criterion] Maintain and refine UI automated tests using Java, awareness of automated API testing and knowledge of common engineering practices.
• Awareness of non-functional testing techniques e.g. Performance, Compatibility, Security, Accessibility.
• Communicate effectively and work collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Describe & apply with support Agile testing and delivery principles, methodology and tools.
• Experience of the testing lifecycle, understanding business needs from delivery to production, including test generation, reporting and defect management.

An initial sift will be conducted using the lead criterion stated above. Candidates who pass the initial sift will progress to a full sift. 

If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact richard.hanley@dwp.gov.uk.