Senior Test Engineer
Ordnance Survey · Southampton · posted 14 days ago
Going rate £41,200UK median £47,118
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Going rate for this occupation: £41,200 · UK median pay £47,118
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- UK pay for this occupation
- This role£56,312 to £65,697stated · above the range ONS published
- Going rate£41,200
- UK median£47,118
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| Percentile | Pay |
|---|---|
| 25th | £36,725 |
| 50th | £47,118 |
| 75th | £55,008 |
| Going rate | £41,200 |
| UK median | £47,118 |
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Senior Test Engineer Full time
Salary £56,312 - £65,697 (dependent on experience)
Flexible hybrid working Southampton
Join Ordnance Survey - Be part of something bigger
At Ordnance Survey, our data and technology help governments, businesses and communities make smarter decisions every day. As we continue to evolve our digital platforms and location services, we're looking for skilled Senior Test Engineers to help us build secure, high-quality software that delivers real impact.
About the role
As a Senior Test Engineer, you'll play a key role in building and maintaining software components using modern, iterative delivery methods. You'll champion best practice in testing and software quality, working closely with engineers and product teams to ensure our services remain reliable, secure and scalable.
You'll contribute hands-on expertise while helping to mentor others and support services once they're live, identifying issues early and improving how we deliver software across the organisation.
What you'll do
Implement automated tests using existing frameworks, and build new tools and/or frameworks as is necessary to meet testing needs/improve testing practices
Look for and execute on opportunities to improve testing practice for your team, and the wider engineering community
Analyse upcoming deliverables to determine suitable test strategies and plans to ensure business requirements, and a high level of quality are met
Contribute testing acumen into agile team ceremonies such as sprint planning, retrospectives, and daily standups
Mentoring junior test engineers for both technical and non-technical skills, as well as taking on people leadership
Communicate software risks, test goals, and outcomes with a variety of team members, including data architects, delivery managers, data engineers, and other key stakeholders
Support the Ordnance Survey Testing Guild by developing common technical standards and ways of working, and presenting these to the community
Here's a snapshot of the technologies that we use:
Scala
Apache Spark
Databricks
Apache Parquet
Azure Cloud Platform
Azure DevOps (Test plans, Backlogs, Pipelines)
GIT
What we're looking for
We'd love to hear from you if you have:
Strong experience in creating, maintaining and peer reviewing test automation code in Scala/Python
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