Test Engineer
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£37,497 plus 28.97% pension contributions, hybrid working and flexible working hours.
DWP. Digital with Purpose.
We're looking for a Test Engineer to join our Child Maintenance Service team. DWP is the UK's biggest government department and you'll be making sure that our products and services work for millions of people.
On Child maintenance our aim is to improve children's lives - we say that our job is to get money to children.
On the Children and Families Digital team, 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 an important part of a multi-functional agile delivery team - taking requirements and creating automated test scripts, to deliver quality services that meet the needs of our customers.
We're a collaborative team - you'll need to like working with others. We actively seek input from colleagues and value a multidisciplinary team over hierarchy.
Day to day 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.
The skills, knowledge and experience you need to show us in your application:
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.
Details. Wages. Perks.
Location: You'll join us in our brilliant Newcastle hub. We're just across the road from Longbenton metro.
Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.
Pay: We offer competitive pay of £37,497.
Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth around £11k.
Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days a year and rising to 31 days over time.
You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.
We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100) Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies Time off volunteering and charitable giving Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP' Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference Sports and social activities Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.
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