Senior Quality Engineer

Location: National*

Closing Date: 27/10/26

Interviews: 5/11/26

Grade: 7

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary**:

National: £58,511- £73,450 (which may include an allowance up to £14,939)

London: £63,343 - £78,225 (which may include an allowance up to £14,882)

Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Contract Type: Permanent

Number of vacancies: 5

Vacancy number: 23177

*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
Please note that unless you are an existing member of staff at Justice Digital, Data and Science, the only London location being recruited to is 10 South Colonnade, E14 4PU. We are no longer recruiting to 102 Petty France, SW1H 9AJ.

The Role

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We’re recruiting for Senior Quality Engineers here at Justice Digital, Data and Science to be part of our warm and collaborative Digital Probation and Legal Aid (LA) Digital teams.

This role aligns against Senior Test Engineer from the Government Digital and Data Framework

Probation Digital builds and supports digital services that probation practitioners rely on every day to manage risk, record accurate information, and deliver effective supervision. These services directly support better outcomes for individuals, communities and the justice system as a whole. Our work is essential to public safety and to the people under probation supervision.

Legal Aid Digital seeks to provide swift access to legal aid for those who need it and ensure efficient payment to providers of those services. Our work is incredibly important to some of the most vulnerable people in our society.

As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will assist teams to build quality into the products and services they deliver. You will work with multidisciplinary teams to engineer quality throughout the delivery lifecycle.

You will work early and collaboratively with product, delivery, architecture, software engineers, operational colleagues and other quality engineers to help teams deliver services that are reliable, accessible, secure, performant and maintainable.

You will help teams understand and manage quality risk, build effective quality practices into their ways of working, and use automation and engineering approaches to provide fast, reliable feedback. You will bring specialist expertise where it is needed, while enabling teams to adopt effective quality practices and take greater ownership of quality.

You will be part of a wider Quality Engineering community, sharing knowledge, developing standards and practices and helping others grow their quality engineering capability. You will have opportunities to develop your own technical and leadership skills through knowledge sharing, mentoring others, communities of practice, involvement in wider quality initiatives and helping to improve quality engineering capability.

The products and services you work on will vary, giving you the opportunity to work with different technologies, teams and challenges and to shape how quality is engineered across complex digital services.

You will be hands-on where required, working directly with teams to apply quality engineering practices, investigate risks and build automated and exploratory testing solutions. You will also work across team and service boundaries where needed, particularly where there are complex integrations, dependencies or end-to-end risks.

You’ll receive a range of excellent benefits when you join our department, including:

• A generous employer pension contribution of 28.97% through the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
• 25 days of annual leave (increasing to 30 days after 5 years of service), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
• Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, working part-time or compressed hours. Designed to support a positive work–life balance.

• Employees are allocated 10% of their working time for personal and professional development.
• A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best-in-class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms.
• Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!

You can find more details of the Benefits we offer here. To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital, Data and Science please take a look at our blog.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to engineer quality throughout the delivery lifecycle to live service.
• Enable teams to own and improve quality, providing coaching, guidance and practical support while bringing hands-on experience where it adds value.
• Provide technical and strategic leadership for multiple product teams, ensuring alignment with service outcomes and business goals.
• Develop and apply risk-based quality strategies, identifying quality risks, dependencies and opportunities for early intervention.
• Be hands-on where required, designing, developing and maintaining automated tests and quality checks, and undertaking exploratory testing to investigate risk and uncertainty.
• Advance automation initiatives, extending and standardising automated testing solutions using appropriate tools and frameworks.
• Apply appropriate testing and quality practices across API, integration and end-to-end testing, working with engineers to establish effective coverage at the right levels.
• Work with others to improve testability and observability and promote shared ownership of quality.
• Contribute to quality across functional and non-functional areas, including accessibility, security, performance, resilience and maintainability.
• Work closely with the Lead Quality Engineer to develop, apply and continuously improve quality standards, patterns and best practices, ensuring they are practical, proportionate and appropriate to the context.
• Use evidence from testing,