Senior Test Engineer - Senior Test Engineer Crown Commercial Service - SEO

Directorate Overview

The Digital & Data Services (DDS) directorate is at the heart of CCS's digital transformation journey, responsible for delivering modern, efficient, and user-centred digital services that support over £30bn of public sector procurement annually. We're building a world-class digital capability that will revolutionise how the public sector buys common goods and services.

Team Summary

This post sits within the Delivery Capabilities & Standards Domain, working alongside cross-functional teams adopting an agile and user-centric approach. 

The Delivery team is responsible for the development, testing and delivery of a variety of digital solutions for CCS. We may build solutions in-house, through our delivery partners or implement off-the-shelf solutions. 

We are responsible for setting the standards for development, testing, and delivery in CCS.

Key Responsibilities:

• collaborate with stakeholders to identify functional and non-functional quality characteristics for testing

• identify the most appropriate quality testing approaches and test types to ensure comprehensive coverage; functional, regression, integration, security, usability and non-functional

• manage stakeholder requirements and communications remaining focused on user needs

• contribute, escalate and advise on the resolution of defects and risks, managing stakeholder expectations

• work collaboratively within Agile Scrum delivery teams, contributing to Sprint ceremonies, and the creation of robust and comprehensive test coverage

• contribute to the wider organisational quality testing strategy

• develop, standardise and extend reusable automation  frameworks that support a range of testing activities

• contribute to the implementation of new testing tools and technologies

• maintain and adapt CI/ CD pipelines?

  Person specification

  Essential Criteria (to be assessed at application stage):

  • Demonstrable experience as a Test Engineer across a number of programmes, including all test stages and test types

  • Strong communication, stakeholder & people management skills, with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences

  • Demonstrable experience of creating and managing automated testing frameworks, utilising continuous integration/ deployment pipeline environments, using tools such as Jenkins,Github,AWS, Browserstack

  • Use of Object Oriented Programming such as Java or Ruby to create and execute automated tests, and automation tools such as Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber BDD, Junit/ TestNG, Maven, Playwright

  • Experience testing the integration of micro services and APIs using tools such as Postman, REST Assured

    Desirable criteria  :

    • Experience of conducting and enabling non-functional testing such as Performance, Security and Accessibility; including test types, test tools, and standards ?

      In the event of a high number of quality applications, desirable will be used as a second sift

      Behaviours

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

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

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

        • Data Analysis
        • Complex Problem resolution
        • Maximise use of Technical tools and software