Vacancy: Test Engineer

Are you a Test Engineer ready to make a real impact in a dynamic and collaborative team? If you’re passionate about testing and keen to take on a variety of responsibilities, keep reading!

Join us and play a vital role ensuring the readiness of our systems at SLAB. As part of an Agile team, you’ll work alongside developers, product managers, and product owners to help deliver high-quality, user-focused solutions.

The role aligns to the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (external link) but offers a unique opportunity to work in a small, flexible department where you’ll take on a variety of tasks.

Beyond testing, you’ll play a key role in training internal and external stakeholders, as well as creating training materials for our website.

Essential criteria

• Experience in Agile testing, supporting test activities, identifying risks and overcoming delivery barriers
• Ability to design and execute functional test packs, communicate results effectively and prioritise defects based on severity
• Experience in planning and conducting non-functional tests, making informed decisions on testing approaches and clearly reporting findings
• Strong technical knowledge of testing tools, techniques and frameworks with the ability to advise on system design and accessibility
• Ability to analyse issues, interpret data, identify improvements and develop effective solutions
• Experience in creating training materials and delivering sessions for internal teams and external stakeholders
• Ability to maintain high-quality work standards while meeting tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge and experience of automated testing tools (can create and maintain automated test scripts to aid test running and analysing the results)
• PRINCE2® Foundation Certification
• Experience in Agile team
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise own workload
• Works well with a team but also self-motivated with the ability to work with minimum supervision
• Adaptable to change with a genuine enthusiasm for learning new things
• Maintains high quality and accuracy of work, especially when under pressure
• Sound working knowledge of the legal aid process
• Experience with either Adobe or Axure, or other design tool such as CAD.

How to apply

Full details about the role and an online application are available through our recruitment portal (external link).