Description
We are recruiting for Senior Quality Engineers to be part of our Digital Probation and Legal Aid (LA) Digital teams within Justice Digital, Data and Science at the Ministry of Justice.
The role involves working with multidisciplinary teams to engineer quality throughout the delivery lifecycle, ensuring services are reliable, accessible, secure, performant, and maintainable. You will help teams understand and manage quality risk, build effective quality practices, and use automation and engineering approaches to provide fast, reliable feedback.
As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will:
- Work collaboratively with teams to engineer quality throughout the delivery lifecycle
- Enable teams to own and improve quality, providing coaching, guidance, and practical support
- Provide technical and strategic leadership for multiple product teams
- Develop and apply risk-based quality strategies
- Be hands-on, designing, developing, and maintaining automated tests and quality checks
- Advance automation initiatives, extending and standardising automated testing solutions
- Apply testing and quality practices across API, integration, and end-to-end testing
- Work with others to improve testability and observability
- Contribute to quality across functional and non-functional areas
- Work closely with the Lead Quality Engineer to develop and improve quality standards
- Use evidence from testing to make quality, risk, and confidence visible
- Implement shift-left testing practices
- Provide technical quality expertise across team and service boundaries
- Coach and mentor colleagues
- Continuously improve quality strategies, processes, and tooling
The products and services you work on will vary, giving you the opportunity to work with different technologies, teams, and challenges.
You will receive a range of excellent benefits, including:
- A generous employer pension contribution of 28.97%
- 25 days of annual leave, plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day
- Flexible working arrangements, including hybrid working, working part-time or compressed hours
- 10% of your working time for personal and professional development
- A £1k per person learning budget
- Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies
The salary for this role is:
- National: £58,511 - £73,450 per year
- London: £63,343 - £78,225 per year