Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

465845 Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency

Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 28th June 2026

📍 Location: Swansea, Bristol, Nottingham, Birmingham, Yeading (Hayes), Oldham , Newcastle, Leeds (This role is suitable for hybrid working)

💷 Salary: £44,241 (Candidates based in Yeading will receive the London Weighting allowance of £4,000)
Plus an additional Government Digital and Data Profession allowance (non-pensionable) up to £14,552.

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

🕘️ Contract Type: Permanent – Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

🏆️ Available Positions: 3

The Strategy, Policy, Digital & Technology Directorate plays a central role in delivering DVSA’s digital services that support road safety and compliance across the UK. The Test Engineering team sits within this directorate and is responsible for ensuring high-quality, reliable, and scalable digital products. Working closely with product, delivery, and engineering teams, the group embeds quality from the outset of development, balancing manual and automated testing to provide confidence in delivery. The team drives improvements in testing practices, builds reusable frameworks, and promotes a culture of collaboration, early engagement, and continuous improvement to meet both user needs and DVSA’s strategic goals.

Top Responsibilities

Leading the design and development of test frameworks and tools.
Building reliable automated checks across API, integration, contract and end-to-end levels.
Improving CI/CD pipeline confidence through effective automated validation.
Investigating complex failures across code, environments, data and pipelines.
Supporting live service reliability by identifying risks and driving improvements.
Working with developers, testers, analysts and DevOps engineers to embed quality early.
Mentoring colleagues and promoting consistent quality engineering practices.
Contributing to engineering standards, continuous improvement and cross-team collaboration.

Benefits

Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits:

Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave).
8 Bank Holidays plus an additional Privilege Day to mark the King’s birthday.
Access to the staff discount portal.
Excellent career development opportunities and the potential to undertake professional qualifications relevant to your role paid for by the department, such as CIPD, Prince2, apprenticeships, etc.
24-hour Employee Assistance Programme providing free confidential help and advice for staff.

About You

To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:

Designing and developing test frameworks and tooling.
Writing clean, reusable and maintainable code in a modern engineering environment.
Testing across API, integration, contract and end-to-end levels.
Working with CI/CD pipelines and automated quality checks.
Investigating complex failures across systems, environments, data and pipelines.
Working in Agile, multidisciplinary teams to deliver digital services.
Applying quality engineering practices to improve reliability and scalability.
Mentoring others and influencing consistent engineering and testing standards.

Additional Information

Government Digital & Data Allowance

The role is part of the Government Digital and Data (or Government Security Profession Career Framework) profession and utilises an enhanced Capability–Based Pay Framework which provides access to a Digital and Data allowance.

The base pay is £44,241. In addition to this the role includes a Digital and Data allowance of up to £14,552.

The value of allowance awarded will be based on an assessment of your skills and experience as demonstrated through the selection process.

How to Apply

👉 Read the full description and apply here: https://bit.ly/4fR42sb

This vacancy closes at 23:55 on Sunday 28^th June 2026