Job Vacancy Lead Test Engineer - Companies House - SEO

We are seeking candidates with the following experience, which will be assessed during the sift, technical stage, and interview. 

• Professional certification: Hold a relevant certification (e.g., ISTQB, ISEB) or demonstrate equivalent practical experience in functional and non-functional testing.

• Automation testing expertise: Proven ability in test automation using modern technologies, with experience in frameworks such as Java, Selenium, or Cucumber. Experience in Playwright and TypeScript is particularly desirable.

• Coaching and mentoring: A strong track record of supporting and developing Test Engineers, particularly in building automation skills. Your expertise will help shape and advance the team's capabilities in automation.

• Agile experience: Certified Agile Tester qualification or substantial hands-on experience working within Agile methodologies.

• Experience of Non Functional testing practices including Security, Performance and Accessibility Testing.

• Has a working knowledge of a minimum of 5 of the following: 

1. API

2. AWS

3. Burp ( security )

4. BrowserStack

5. Concourse / Jenkins

6. Docker

7. JMeter

8. Karate/Rest API

9. MongoDB

10. Kafka

11. Oracle

12. Playwright

13. Postman/SOAP UI

14. Selenium Grid

15. SQL

16. Typescript

17. Unix based systems

18. Git

19. XML 

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions

• Managing a Quality Service

• Working Together

• Seeing the Big Picture

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Technical expertise of test automation

Remote working (anywhere in the UK)

We are looking for enthusiastic Lead Test Engineers with great technical skills able to coach and mentor other testers and lead the test automation, functional and non functional areas of software testing.  

You will be part of our lead tester group, working collaboratively with your assigned squads overseeing the testing journey with management responsibilities.  You will act as an advocate for quality and champion behaviour driven development . 

This is an exciting opportunity in the Digital Services team. You’ll be joining our team at a time of transformation and you will be part of shaping the future of our department. We use Agile Methodologies and promote a culture of continuous improvement.   

This provides an opportunity to make the test community thrive by exploring new and emerging tools and approaches and working out how you can help the organisation deliver better services.  This is a rewarding role within the Test Team and provides an opportunity to contribute to the success of existing and future services provided by Companies House.  

Companies House offers a flexible and welcoming culture that promotes a healthy work life balance as well as a proactive approach to wellbeing that allows us to be our best at work.  We recognise that people are the key to our success so offer a fantastic benefits package including flexible working with no core hours, 30 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays and 1 privilege day as well as enrolment into the Civil Service Pension scheme with a contribution rate averaging 28%.   

Please note:

• Companies House cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign. 

• Security Clearance is an essential requirement for this campaign.  You'll need to have been in the UK for at least 3 out of the last 5 years to be eligible to apply for SC. 

• Remote contracts will only be offered to successful candidates who are not within a commutable distance to our Cardiff, Belfast or Edinburgh offices. If you are located in a reasonable distance to one our offices, you will receive a hybrid contract aligned to one of our offices. 

Please see 'Things you need to know' and 'Where will you be working' sections below for more information.