Test Engineer

Gloucester, England, United Kingdom

5/9/2025

UCAS is at the heart of connecting people to higher education.

UCAS is the world’s leading shared admissions service for higher education. We provide application services for UK universities and colleges as well as delivering a wide range of research, consultancy and advisory services to schools, colleges, careers services, professional bodies and employers.

We’re a successful and fast-growing organisation, which helps hundreds of thousands of people every year. We're committed to delivering a first-class service to all of our customers — they're at the heart of everything we do.

Business Unit Description

The Digital Services business unit is at the heart of UCAS’ technical innovation, data and infrastructure. It focuses on leveraging data science, technology, and enterprise architecture to enhance UCAS' digital products and services.

The unit is dedicated to developing and improving customer-centric digital solutions, ensuring seamless and secure online experiences for all users. By providing insightful data and analysis, often made available to anyone with free-to-use intuitive dashboard, Digital Services empowers the Higher Education sector and those interested in the sector with valuable information to make informed decisions. By working in collaborative, expert led, multi-disciplinary teams, Digital Services drives UCAS’ mission to connect students with their next opportunities through advanced technological solutions.

About The Role Contractual Hours

35.00

About The Role

A UCAS Test Engineer is an important role, embedded within one or more of the product development teams delivering value quickly and often to our customers. They are accountable for the analysis, creation and execution of manual and automated functional and non-functional tests within an Agile testing methodology.

The Test Engineer is responsible for maintaining a technical understanding of relevant UCAS products, delivering technical testing expertise throughout iterative development lifecycles and at times provide a level of flex capacity to other product development teams as required. There is an emphasis placed upon test automation orchestrated by the CI/CD pipeline, namely to drive a consistent and efficient approach to the technical assurance of UCAS’ products and services, but also supplemented with manual and exploratory testing.

The tech stack varies across each of the product development teams, with key technologies including .Net, AWS, Java, Angular, Salesforce and React Native.

Key accountabilities:

• Working closely with the team’s Product Owner and Software Engineers to identify appropriate entry and exit criteria at each stage of the SDLC.
• Analyse feature acceptance criteria and create high level test approaches which align to the overarching QA Strategy and will ensure the Definition of Done is met.
  
  

You can find the full job description in the attached role profile below.

Skills, Qualifications, And Experience

• 2+ years industry experience, with at least 1 years’ experience in an Agile development environment.
• Experience of testing at component, integration, system and acceptance test levels. Experience of executing automated test scripts (for Java, C# .Net systems, and Selenium)
• Experience of UI testing – including cross browser, accessibility and usability testing.
• Clear and concise communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Able to discuss technical issues with the software development team and business.
• Knowledge of Cloud Computing (e.g AWS and Salesforce).
• Knowledge of API testing techniques.
• Knowledge of mobile app testing techniques.
  
  

Package

Salary - up to £48,000

• 30 days annual leave (plus 3 concessionary days over Christmas and your bank holidays!)
• Flexibility – UCAS positively supports Hybrid working for its employees, meaning you can work between home and the office in a way that suits you and the business and also has a comprehensive Flexible Working Policy
• A generous pension scheme
• Hundreds of high street discounts and offers with Perkbox
• Internal training and development
• Subsidised gym and café
• Be rewarded for going above and beyond with our ex-gratia bonus scheme and Celebrating U, our quarterly employee recognition scheme
• Dedicated volunteer employee networks promoting wellbeing, awareness and inclusion.
  
  

Studies have shown that some groups of people are less likely to apply to a role unless they tick every box. At UCAS we recognise that talent comes in various forms and we are committed to delivering a fair and equitable recruitment process where applicants have an equal opportunity to demonstrate their skills. So, if you are interested in this vacancy, but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still apply.

If you have any questions and would like to find out more about the role before applying please email the Talent Acquisition team via [email protected] and one of us will be in touch.

Working Arrangements Is fully remote working an option?

No