Defence Business Services (DBS) Test Engineer - MoD - HEO

Are you a dedicated person who is passionate about making a difference? 

Would you like to work for the Ministry of Defence?? 

Defence Business Services (DBS) is one of the largest shared service organisations in Europe that provides a wide range of corporate services, to over 1.2 million end users, including serving and past military and families, as well as MoD civil servants and industry. DBS delivers large scale administration and smaller specialist services to enable the wider MOD to focus on its core aims, maintaining the UK's Defence and Security. Services include Human Resources, Pay, Veterans, Finance and Procurement. 

• Our Vision - To support UK defence customers with outstanding service every time.
• Our Mission - Together we will proudly support Defence, continuously improving and delivering flexible, timely, sustainable and value for money services that underpin the whole force and enhance operational capability.?

  DBS is committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues. We are building an inclusive culture and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society.? 

  We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us through opportunities to develop your skills and experience. We also offer a range of flexible working patterns and support to make a fulfilling career accessible to you and offer a Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%. Where your role permits, we support a blended working approach alternatively known as hybrid working. 

  Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working.? This is a non-contractual arrangement where all office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity and any required workplace adjustments.  Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD office, will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements.  

  Come and join the DBS community today! 

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  Job description

  The Test Engineer will work within DBS CIO Change Delivery Services area of the business developing scripts for test automation tool. They will create the tests based on the system requirements to meet quality and performance requirements, and technical constraints.

  Person specification

  • Collaborate with team members to continually improve the knowledge within the team. 
   
  • Work with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) across DBS to provide regular updates on progress, delivering Show and Tell demonstrations on testing progress, addressing any concerns or issues. 
   
  • Ability to engage with relevant stakeholders on complex discussions and negotiations
   
  • Strong knowledge in creation of test plan, test design, test execution, test report and defect process.
   
  • Liaise with other DBS IT colleagues to investigate and resolve issues with access to environments related automation..
   
  • Mentor colleagues through training, providing advice and guidance on best practice and testing techniques. 
   
  • Progress through self-learning and upskilling in test automation and related technologies to improve oneself and the team as a whole. 
   
  • Keep up to date with test automation tools (TestComplete, Cucumber, Selenium Web Driver, Selenium Grid, JAVA / Python, Junit & Maven) and test automation framework / languages (java, Junit and scripting language such as VB script, java script or shell script), API. 

  • Keep up to date with common Build/ Release/ CI/ CD tools (Jira, Git, Maven, Jenkins, TeamCity) 
   
  • Responsible for designing functional and non-functional testing.
   
  • Test analysis to Identify simple patterns and trends investigating problems and opportunities in existing processes, highlight solutions to these. 
   
  • Ability to work with stakeholders to identify test scenarios. Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently. 
   
  • Conducting analysis that influence decisions of senior management while following their strategic leadership and direction.
   
  • Execute test scenarios and identify defects, raising awareness of them. Run tests others have written and know the processes to do so.a

  Behaviours

  We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Leadership
  • Making Effective Decisions
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Delivering at Pace
    Technical skills

    We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

    • Technical Breadth - Working
    • Functional Testing - Practitioner
    • Non functional testing - Working