Senior Test Engineer in Liverpool

Available Locations: Liverpool, Newport, Norwich, Glasgow or Birmingham. The following locations are restricted to contracted GCA staff already based in one of these offices: London, Bristol, Manchester or York. External applicants are not eligible for these sites.

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time

Closing Date: 21-09-26

Interview Date(s): w/c 19th October (subject to change)

Job Summary: We are looking for a dynamic, self-motivated individual who can work independently. The Senior Test Engineer is accountable for identifying the functional and non-functional testing requirements. They will develop reusable automation frameworks that support a range of testing activities; they will execute both automated and manual testing, and undertake risk and issue reporting. The Senior Test Engineer will contribute to the wider organisational quality testing strategy and the implementation of new testing tools and technologies.

Key Accountabilities:

• 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.

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.

Success Profiles (to be assessed at interview):

• Behaviours: Changing and Improving, Communicating and Influencing, Making Effective Decisions.
• Technical: Data Analysis, Complex Problem resolution, Maximise use of Technical tools and software.

Valuing our people:

• Competitive salary
• Generous pension scheme
• A discretionary non-contractual performance related bonus
• Working remotely in addition to working in advertised office location
• Flexi time scheme (available for B1-B6)
• Minimum 25 days annual leave to a maximum service related 30 days excluding bank holidays

GCA operates a smarter working model that balances flexibility with collaboration. Successful candidates are expected to spend at least 26 days per quarter (approximately 2 days per week, pro-rata) at their contracted office, another GCA site, or off-site for meetings. For the remainder of the time, you may work from home or another suitable location that meets business needs.

Selection Process: A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, which the Civil Service may use to fill future suitably similar vacancies across government for candidates who are considered appointable following interview. Should you be placed on a reserve list and want to be removed please contact recruitment@gca.gov.uk.

Please note that as part of this recruitment process, if you are unsuccessful at the interview stage but are close to the benchmark score you may be considered for and offered a role at a lower pay band within the same job family.

Please note this is a two-stage interview.