Lead Test Engineer

Salary: £90,000 - 90,000 per year

Requirements:

• Leading and proactively owning test and quality strategies across multiple teams and tech stacks, including microservices, APIs, GUIs, CoTs and message brokers.
• Proactively defining and embedding test engineering practices in Java, especially around BDD.
• Leading and enabling non-functional testing approaches, including accessibility, performance, security and usability, with suitable tools, standards and test types.
• Driving and implementing testing earlier in the delivery lifecycle, including CI/CD and automated pipelines within cloud infrastructure.
• Leading, developing and line managing agile and diverse teams of embedded test engineers, promoting skills development, good practices and continuous improvement.
• Providing technical leadership across the full software development lifecycle, from understanding business needs to delivery into production.
• Delivering technical leadership and managing risk, issues, defects and progress reporting.

Responsibilities:

• Work with architects, delivery teams and stakeholders to ensure quality is built into every stage of delivery.
• Shape test strategy and drive automation.
• Coach engineers and influence technical decisions.
• Help teams deliver secure, accessible and reliable services.
• Work across Azure, microservices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Champion continuous improvement and build a culture where quality is everyones responsibility.

Technologies:

• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Embedded
• Support
• Java
• Security
• microservices
• API

More:

We are DWP Digital, the UKs largest government department and the UKs largest payer, making around £280 billion in payments every year and handling a third of all UK BACS traffic to support and empower millions of people. We are looking for a Lead Test Engineer to join our DWP Digital Debt Solutions team. You can work from one of our digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield, with hybrid working, flexible hours and a strong work-life balance. We offer competitive pay of up to £90,267, a civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, a generous leave package, flexible working, volunteering time, discounts, interest-free loans, and professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. We are recognised for our award-winning environment and inclusive culture, and our application process has two stages: apply and then attend a single-stage online interview.

last updated 37 week of 2026