Test Engineer

📍 Location: Bristol, Swansea, Leeds, Nottingham, Newcastle, Oldham (Chadderton), Birmingham (Garretts Green) or Uxbridge.

💷 Salary: £37,090 – A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%. Candidates based in Yeading will receive the London Weighting allowance of £4,000.

🕒 Contract Type: Permanent – Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time.

The central responsibility of this role is to deliver effective and reliable testing across DVSA digital services, supporting the delivery of high-quality, user-focused outcomes within Agile teams.

Working within a delivery-focused Agile environment, and in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, you will contribute to the design and implementation of testing processes for a range of DVSA digital services.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Execute functional, integration, system and revalidation testing activities, ensuring testing remains relevant to business needs and product risk.
• Work effectively within fast-paced digital delivery environments, maintaining focus on quality, risk and user outcomes.
• Support testing by leveraging testing tools to execute test scenarios, review results, and gain insights, collaborating with colleagues responsible for building the frameworks.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement within team-level testing practices and contribute to corporate testing standards and best practice guidance.

Benefits

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary.
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave).
• 8 Bank Holidays plus an additional Privilege Day to mark the King’s birthday.
• Access to the staff discount portal.
• Excellent career development opportunities and the potential to undertake professional qualifications relevant to your role paid for by the department, such as CIPD, Prince2, apprenticeships, etc.
• 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme providing free confidential help and advice for staff.

About you

To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:

• Understanding and experience of testing within a software delivery team.
• Knowledge of defect management and test management tools, and familiarity with version control systems such as Git to support collaboration within Agile teams.
• Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to interpret requirements and identify appropriate test conditions and scenarios.
• Familiarity with test tools and frameworks and the ability to apply them to design effective test scenarios and maximise the value of testing activities.

📅 Apply before 11:55 pm on Monday 2nd November 2026.