Senior QA Engineer - Department for Science, Innovation & Technology - SEO

Locations: Darlington, London or Salford

Improve the quality and reliability of digital services that support major UK infrastructure programmes.

This Senior QA Engineer opportunity sits within Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK), playing a key role in ensuring stable, high-performing services across government.

Why this role stands out

• Shape quality standards and testing strategy across digital products

• Work across data, software, and service delivery environments

• Influence decisions at programme and executive level

• Play a key role in maintaining reliable public services

• Join a growing team focused on continuous improvement

What You’ll Be Doing

• Defining and setting QA standards across teams

• Designing and delivering manual and automated testing strategies

• Managing defects and working closely with developers

• Providing insights and recommendations to senior stakeholders

• Supporting continuous improvement across the development lifecycle

• Leading and developing team members

Technology and tools you’ll use

• Selenium, JUnit, TestNG

• SQL and Python

• Jira, Azure Dev

Ops, Test

Rail

• Postman, Swagger

• CI/CD tools

This role could be a strong fit if experience includes:

• Leading QA or test strategy in digital environments

• Manual and automated testing across complex systems

• Working in Agile or Scrum teams

• Collaborating with a range of stakeholders

• Using modern QA tools and CI/CD pipelines

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