Senior Test Engineer

About the role

Reporting to the Head of IT Portfolio Management, this role will be responsible for establishing and leading a new Quality Assurance and Testing (QAT) practice. The Senior Test Engineer will define QAT policies, strategies, utilise test automation where appropriate to implement best practices and drive excellence in software and service testing. 

Working with the IT Portfolio Team, the Senior Test Engineer will support the delivery of projects within the IT Projects portfolio, through the implementation of appropriate test and quality assurance frameworks and processes that integrate with the Project Management Framework and ITIL processes. 

The role will work with colleagues and key stakeholders across the organisation to define and implement consistent approaches to business acceptance testing ensure the quality assurance of technology related projects and services. 

You will collaborate with technical delivery teams across the department to ‘shift testing left’, educating, empowering and enabling delivery teams to embed Quality Assurance and Testing best-practices within their day-to-day work. 

This role will also represent QAT practice at the regular Change Advisory Board (CAB) to ensure appropriate quality assurance around changes to live IT services.

Previous experience of the following:

• Establishing and leading a QAT team, ideally in an academic environment.
• Building sustainable relationships across key IT and University wide stakeholders.
• Supervising or managing and developing an effective team in a complex environment.
• Test automation using industry-standard tools (e.g., Selenium, JUnit, TestNG).
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, tools, and best practices. 

What we can offer you:

• A very generous employer contributory pension scheme
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• We are a family-friendly University and with an increasingly agile workforce, are open to flexible working arrangements
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities
• A number of support options available for new and existing staff to help with the cost of some immigration expenses which you may be eligible for: Relocation allowance, Visa Reimbursement, Interest-Free Loan.

Salary: Starting from £37,999, rising to £45,163

Contract Type: Full Time, Open Ended