Principal Test Engineer - Cloud

Are you a Principal Test Engineer, with strong experience in AWS Cloud, looking for your next challenge? We are looking for a Principal Test Engineer to join our award-winning team to be responsible for our strategic cloud platform, specifically delivering test engineering, assurance and maturing the quality of our cloud platform engineering practice. We provide a large-scale shared service, delivered through 750 QA professionals. It supports services that are essential for the UK!

This role will particularly excite you if you are a quality engineering expert with a keen interest and experience in platform engineering or equally if you are an experienced platform engineer with a keen interest in quality approaches in that field.

A strong continuous improvement culture underpins the way we work, making advancements on how quality is delivered and assured in ground breaking DevOps environments, including cloud platforms. We are a well-established, well-knit team of quality specialists and among the best in the industry!

We recently won the Testing Team of the Year at the 2024 European Software Testing Awards and were also re-certified at TMMi level 5 earlier this year, receiving the best score globally.

This role will lead our Test Engineering team within our strategic platform, Core Cloud. The Core Cloud team is responsible for building a new strategic hosting platform using Amazon Web Services. We are taking a product-centric approach and are building squads around our products, with a focus on improving Developer Experience at the Home Office.

Deadline to apply - Thursday 3rd April @ 11:55pm

What you will do

• work within a cloud platform setting, especially one focussed on AWS. You will set the overall direction for QAT engineering and develop/implement innovative approaches for our strategic cloud platform, encompassing DevSecOps best practices
• partner with engineering and senior delivery partners to make sure Infrastructure as Code test engineering frameworks are embedded by default in the engineering approach, implementing all levels of a modern test pyramid that map to a modern CI/CD pipeline
• build, mentor and lead quality engineering teams by providing support and guidance to more junior members and provide technical advice on improving the way we do things
• build and deliver quality engineering solutions that are scalable, efficient, and cost effective
• quantify, measure, and report on code quality and using risk-based approaches to decision making
• make the QAT practice thrive by exploiting new and emerging tools and approaches and use these to help the organisation deliver better services

What you will bring

• working at senior leadership level, establishing and maintaining organisational level networks and actively engaging other senior leaders
• leading a technical team of test engineers
• developing organisational level test approaches that implement all levels of a modern test pyramid in a cloud DevSecOps environment
• setting strategic direction at organisational level for the design of platform test approaches involving test automation environments, utilising virtualisation, and containerisation
• designing, building, deploying and improving platform test engineering capabilities which support the implementation of QA, Testing and Software Development strategies
• selecting and deploying a broad range of tools and test automation techniques including Open-Source technologies and object-orientated design, programming languages such as Java, Python and JS, Developer tools such as AWS SDK, test tools like Pytest and Terratest, using continuous integration, deployment and release tools

What We Offer💜

Salary: £73,900 (National), £77,900 (London)) + up to £21,700 allowance.

Pension: Average employer contribution of 28.97%.

Leave: 25 days annual leave + 8 public holidays + 1 day for the King’s Birthday (rises with service).

Work-Life Balance: Flexible working options, including part-time, job sharing, and flexi-time.

Development: Tailored training and development opportunities.

Bonus: In-year bonus schemes.

Inclusive Culture: We’re proud to foster diversity and inclusion.

SC clearance is required. Candidates typically need 3+ years of UK residency to meet national security vetting requirements. Unfortunately we cannot sponsor visas.