Wilmslow
Job Summary
Test Engineer
Full time / Part time
Salary: £33,273- £37,692 pa, with potential for further progression to £42,439 pa with our pay progression scheme.
Location: Flexible
Contracted to our Wilmslow office however, through hybrid working we offer flexible home and office-based working opportunities. There will be times when you will be expected to attend the office to collaborate with colleagues or travel due to business need.
Why work for the ICO?
* Pay progression scheme.
* Hybrid and flexible working options.
* 25 days paid holiday per year, plus privilege and public holidays.
* Flexi leave (up to 24 additional days leave per year).
* Pension (employer contribution around 28.9%).
* Online discount scheme to save money at major supermarkets, retailers, gyms, restaurants, insurance providers and many more.
* Health Cash Plan.
* Fantastic development opportunities to learn and progress.
Further details can be found on the benefits section of our website.
About Us
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is the independent regulator of information rights. In a data-driven world, we provide advice, guidance, and support to organisations enabling compliance with their obligations, as well as protecting individuals and their personal data.
As an employer, we are passionate about making a positive difference to the lives and careers of our people, and we empower you to be curious, impactful, collaborative and respectful.
Job Description
As part of the Digital, Data and Technology Services (DDaT) team, you will be responsible for driving the testing activities within a given project/product; ensuring that new and amended systems, configurations, packages, or services, together with any interfaces, perform as specified (including security requirements) and ensure that the risks associated with deployment are adequately understood and documented. Testing includes the process of engineering, using and maintaining test-ware to measure and improve the quality of the software being tested.
You will review requirements and specifications and define test conditions. To design test cases and test scripts and support data mapping back to pre-determined acceptance criteria - recording and reporting on outcomes. Analyse and report test activities and results. Interpret, execute and record test cases in accordance with test plans. Identify and report issues and risks within related product.
To develop an understanding of the role of testing within product/service development, as a tool for design improvement as well as a validation process.
Key Responsibilities
* Reviewing requirements and specifications and defining test conditions.
* Designing and executing test plans and carry out exploratory testing as part of a broader risk-based approach.
* Collaborating with product teams and application support to write automated tests across different levels and review release scripts across environments.
* Designing and identifying new test techniques and tools to write test cases, test scripts and supporting data mapping back to pre-determined acceptance criteria, recording and reporting outcomes.
* Writing and executing functional and non-functional tests at each level; debugging and refactor the test code in accordance with project test plans.
* Designs test environment set-ups and configuration and recruiting and training test subjects.
* Identifying, analysing and reporting on test activities, issues and risks associated with a related project/product.
* Identify and raise defects with the team, as part of product responsibilities.
* Support other test engineers and product teams to identify test scenarios to be automated.
* Responsibility for identifying, raising and managing defects within a given project/product/service and/or as part of product responsibilities.
* Taking a business and operational view when analysing the system under test, in so doing identifying gaps not just in software but in processes too.
* Responsible for evaluating business artefacts and supporting system integration testing.
* Prime responsibility in the acceptance activity within a development phase of given project/product/service.
* Providing reports on progress, anomalies, risks and issues associated with the overall project.
* Knowledge of the WCAG 2.2 standards and how to test against them to spot problems and opportunities that ensure all our digital services work for all users.
Person specification
Essential Criteria Assessed At Application Stage
* Experience relevant to the role requirements, as described in the role responsibilities and person specification, and accumulated through any combination of academic or vocational qualifications or experience.
* ITIL qualification.
* Knowledge of Agile Scrum.
* Proven experience of working with Agile and Waterfall methodologies and working within an agile framework.
* Proven experience of full stack testing and being involved from the beginning of a project in a test engineering capacity.
* Understanding and working knowledge of the role of defect management.
Essential Criteria Assessed At Interview Stage
* Able to design and execute test cases using standard testing techniques. Able to come up with different business scenarios for a feature, working with others in the team.
* Able to identify simple patterns and trends. Investigates problems and opportunities in existing processes and contributes to recommending solutions to these.
* Aware of non-functional testing techniques. Able to execute non-functional test scenarios and raise defects. Understands a range of standard non-functional testing techniques.
* Working knowledge of Government Digital Service Design Standards.
* Experience of Test Case Creation, Functional Testing and Non-Functional Testing.
* Experience of User test software and methodology and able to write user scripts.
* Experience of change management.
Alongside your salary of £33,273, Information Commissioner's Office contributes £9,639 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Please visit ico.jobs for full details, including salary and benefits.
Selection process details
Equality, diversity, and inclusion
The ICO is committed to promoting and enhancing equality, diversity, and inclusion. We are focused on developing a workforce that is representative of the communities we serve and together we are building an inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference. We are championing this through our Equality Diversity and Inclusion Board together with a number of staff networks. Read more about our commitment on our website.
If you have a disability or impairment and have difficulty using our online application system, please email the HR team at recruitment@ico.org.uk who can arrange for you to submit an application via an alternative method.
Closing Date
Please submit your CV by 23:59 on Monday 21st April 2025. We reserve the right to close this vacancy before this date should we receive sufficient applications. Please apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard checks.
Nationality requirements
This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups:
* UK nationals
* nationals of the Republic of Ireland
* nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
* nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS).
* nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS).
* individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020.
* Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service.
Further information on nationality requirements can be found on our website.
Contact point for applicants
Job Contact:
* Name: recruitment@ico.org.uk
* Email: recruitment@ico.org.uk
Recruitment team
* Email: recruitment@ico.org.uk
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