HM Revenue & Customs
Lead Test Engineer
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Lead Test Engineer
Chief Engineering and Platform Office – Lead Test Engineer
About the Job
Job Summary
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About HMRC
Almost every individual and business in the UK interacts with HMRC as we: ✔ Collect funds for public services ✔ Provide essential financial support to those in need
Our mission has never been more critical as we rebuild and secure the UK’s future. As one of the largest and most digitallist organisations, the Chief Engineering and Platform Office (CEPO) leads transformative technology change. Our goals: 🔹 Streamline legacy systems 🔹 Modernise IT delivery 🔹 Create a cloud-ready digital platform
By driving consolidation and adoption of scalable service-based solutions, we empower HMRC’s frontline teams to deliver fast, reliable experiences for UK citizens.
Lead Test Engineer – CEPO
Location
Flexible office/remote within UK (see notes on future site moves).
Purpose
In this strategic role, you’ll shape modern testing practices across HMRC’s complex digital ecosystem, influencing programmes, teams, and senior stakeholders to embed quality-first principles.
Here you’ll lead technical innovation, bridge product/engineering teams, and bridge the gap between business priorities and technical delivery, ensuring fast, secure, and user-centric outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
🎯 Leadership & Collaboration
- Mentor and coach test engineers across delivery teams, fostering a culture of professional growth and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with product, platform, and delivery teams to integrate testing seamlessly into agile workflows.
- Engage with senior HMRC stakeholders and suppliers, positively influencing quality strategies and delivery confidence.
📊 Test Strategy & Governance
- Design risk-based, shift-left testing strategies for diverse platforms, ensuring alignment with business needs, technical architecture, and timelines.
- Set robust global testing standards for cross-functional workstreams, including supplier-driven testing pipeline.
- Champion consistency across partners under governance frameworks.
⚡ Technical Core & Problem-Solving
- Apply advanced technologies to solve high-complexity challenges while improving delivery certainty.
- Provide expertise in functional, non-functional test automation: performance (⚡), security (🔒), accessibility (🎬), and e-gov quality standards.
- Proactively advocate for new tooling, including AI-driven solutions, within CI/CD pipelines to increase value.
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🧩 Tooling & Automation
- Evaluate, implement, and refine testing ecosystems—from AI-assisted triage to SAST/SMS tools—to amplify automation coverage.
- Create governance models to integrate supplier-led testing with HMRC standards (e.g., compliance, encryption, test data).
- Support secure linking of platforms, services, and testing scripts.
✔ Quality Assurance & Risk Mitigation
- Sharpen technical excellence using BDD and Exploratory Testing (ET) to validate requirements early.
- Lead retrospective and assurance workshops to refine testing systems and reduce delivery risks.
- Produce granular, data-backed insights/reports to inform recommendations for product teams.
Person Specification & Key Focus Areas
A visionary leader—technical hands-on but leading with vision—you’ll: 🔹 Strategically shape testing priorities including risk/performance optimisation while influencing cross-boundary projects. 🔹 Normalise shift-left testing to accelerate delivery, embedding professional discipline into CI pipelines. 🔹 Mentor cloud, security, and automation experts, promoting tools like resize Gaitling, Scala, Playwrites, and Automation X in tensor pipelines**. 🔹 Drive digital compliance and improve automated test pipeline standards.
Technical Skills Rubric
Our ideal candidate excels in:
| Field | Key Expertise Needed |
|---|---|
| Software Testing | Functional, automated (e2e), and performance, security, and accessibility (AAA) testing |
| Cloud/ DevOps | ✅ Impact DevSecOps shift-left methodologies<br>✅ Experience cloud-native platforms: AWS/GCP<br>✅ CI/CD (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Codebuild) |
| Languages/Tools | Python, Scala, Java.<br>Test Applications: Selenium, Playwright, Gatling, BSA.<br>Security: Burpsuite, OWASP ZAP.<br>Accessibility: Axe, tools like Ionic.** |
| Systems Thinking | Shaping scalable testing and governance direction for multi team, multi-supplier supply chains. |
| Stakeholder Influence | Translating complex testing challenges into actionable decisions for resourcing, timelines, and delivery. |
Additional HMRC Notes
Bryden Park, Newcastle and Telford Moves
Nationals already serving in Bryden Park, Newcastle, or Telford Plaza will relocate centrally to their new offices (Pilgrims Quarter, Newcastle or Walton Parkside, Telford) as part of HMRC’s modernisation strategy.
Benefits Summary
| Salary | £58,541 + Civil Service Defence ARP 2 contribution (£16,959) |
|---|---|
| 35+ Hours pw | 25 base leave days (annual increase to 30 days with longevity), flex/carery/beesee and hybrid policies with 60% office requirement. |
| Pension | Civil Service Déf visions Galaxie newsletter. |
| Family sulfate | Accommodation advice such as Tfino EDS. |
| Supportive practices | Healthcare cash plans, fixed income, MIS coaching. |
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So You Can Apply
To submit: -✅ CV: Showcase your trajectory. -✅ 750 words personal narrative: Align—write no fiction—your experiences with essential criteria & the CEPO mandate.
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