Senior Test Engineer

As a Senior Test Engineer, you will:

• Design, develop, maintain, and implement automated test solutions across multiple products and services.
• Develop and maintain reusable test frameworks, tooling, and test assets that support efficient and consistent testing practices.
• Ensure automated tests are integrated into CI/CD pipelines and support continuous quality assurance activities.
• Apply a risk-based approach to testing and proactively identify, assess, communicate, and manage quality risks.
• Analyse requirements, user stories, designs, technical specifications, and business processes to define effective test approaches and coverage.
• Design and implement functional, integration, system, exploratory, regression, performance, and non-functional testing activities.
• Collaborate closely with developers, business analysts, product managers, and partners to ensure quality is embedded from the outset.
• Investigate defects and quality issues, ensuring that findings are clearly communicated and understood by both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Promote modern engineering and testing practices across teams and projects.
• Contribute to the development of testing standards, strategies, frameworks, and quality metrics.
• Support the evaluation and adoption of new testing tools, technologies, and approaches.
• Coach, mentor, and support other testers and team members to improve testing capability and quality outcomes.

• Proven experience in software testing and quality engineering within Agile delivery environments and working with multidisciplinary teams (S).
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining automated test frameworks using modern automation tools such as Robot Framework, Selenium, Playwright or Cypress (S&I).
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines (S&I).
• Experience applying risk-based testing methodologies and test strategies (I).
• Experience coaching and mentoring testers and quality engineering professionals as well as contributing to testing communities of practice and continuous improvement initiatives (S&I).

We recognise and value our employees as individuals and aim to provide a favourable pay and rewards package. UKRI are committed to supporting employees’ development and promote a culture of continuous learning!

A list of benefits below:

• An outstanding defined benefit pension scheme
• 30 days’ annual leave in addition to 10.5 public and privilege days (full time equivalent)
• Employee discounts and offers on retail and leisure activities
• Employee assistance programme, providing confidential help and advice
• Flexible working options

Plus many more benefits and wellbeing initiatives that enable our employees to have a great work life balance!

UKRI is an organisation that brings together the seven disciplinary research councils, Research England and Innovate UK. Together, we build an independent organisation with a strong voice and vision ensuring the UK maintains its world-leading position in research and innovation.

Supporting some of the world’s most exciting and challenging research projects, we develop and operate some of the most remarkable scientific facilities in the world. We are pushing the frontiers of human knowledge through fundamental research and delivering benefits for UK society and the economy through world-class research, skills and business-led innovation., UKRI seeks to ensure it creates and maintains a system of openness, fairness and inclusion - a collaborative, trusted environment, which is attractive to and accessible to everyone who is interested in developing their career with us.

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be rejected and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.

As part of the pre-employment checks there is a requirement to undergo Baseline Personnel Security Screening. BPSS is a pre-condition of employment and failure to achieve it may mean that the employment offer is rescinded. UKRI reserves the right to run, or re-run, security clearance as required during the course of employment., Research England is one of the nine Councils within UK Research and Innovation. As a key component of the research funding system, Research England will oversee UKRI’s England-only functions in relation to university research and knowledge exchange (KE). This includes providing grant funding to English universities for related activities; developing and implementing the Research Excellence Framework in partnership with the UK Higher Education funding bodies; supervising the sustainability of the Higher Education research base in England; guide the UK Research Partnership Investment Fund; and coordinate the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF). Research England will build and sustain the conditions for a healthy and dynamic research and KE system in English universities. They also work closely with their counterparts in the Devolved Administrations.