About this role
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On behalf of DWP, we are looking for a Senior Test Engineer for a 12 month (Inside IR35) contract based Hybrid in Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Blackpool, Sheffield or Birmingham.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.
Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:
- Help people to move into work and support those already in work to progress, with the aim of increasing overall workforce participation
- Help people to plan and save for later life, while providing a safety net for those who need it now
- Provide effective, efficient, and innovative services to the millions of claimants who rely on us every day, including the most vulnerable in society
- Improve experience of our services while maximising value for money for the taxpayer.
As a Senior Test Engineer , your main responsibilities will be:
PLEASE NOTE: SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.
Essential:
- Lead the testing and quality assurance of data solutions within the Health Data Analytical Platform, ensuring all deliverables meet the highest standards of accuracy, reliability, and performance.
- Design, execute, and maintain comprehensive test plans for ETL/ELT pipelines, batch processes, scheduled data loads, and complex data transformation workflows.
- Perform detailed data validation, source-to-target reconciliation, schema verification, and data quality testing to ensure confidence in business-critical management information and analytics products.
- Utilise advanced SQL skills to conduct data integrity checks, reconciliation activities, root cause analysis , and defect investigation across large-scale data platforms.
- Support the successful delivery of key Health Transformation Programme initiatives , including PIP Reboot, PIP Scale Up, and HAS Expansion, by providing expert testing and validation throughout the development lifecycle.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and data teams working within Azure Synapse, Databricks, and enterprise cloud data warehousing environments to ensure robust, fully tested, and production-ready solutions.
Desirable:
- Previous experience working within a government department or public sector organisation
Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.
Disability Confident
As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, DWP guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.
Armed Forces Covenant
DWP guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.
In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".