Head of Quality Engineering – Salary: £69,501 per annum. Vacancy type: Permanent, Full Time or Part Time. Closing Date: Monday 29th June 2026.
Location
Swansea, Bristol, Birmingham (Garretts Green), Nottingham, Yeading (Hayes), Oldham (Chadderton), Leeds, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Overview
The Head of Quality Engineering provides organisational leadership to foster a cohesive quality engineering strategy across DVSA. They build capability across the profession and delivery teams, ensuring teams are equipped to support strategic direction and deliver high-quality digital services.
Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate leadership by providing influence, direction, and guidance to staff to support the delivery of organisational objectives.
- Define and execute a long‑term quality and testing strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives, user needs and DVSA’s digital strategy.
- Guide and influence testing and quality engineering practices across product teams, promoting consistent and scalable approaches to quality.
- Drive the integration of quality engineering practices at every stage of the software development lifecycle, ensuring quality is embedded from design through to delivery and operation.
- Promote the adoption of automation and scalable quality frameworks that support efficient, reliable and repeatable delivery across product teams.
- Shape and refine testing and quality engineering design principles, governance, metrics, and reporting, ensuring clear visibility of quality across DVSA services.
- Establish a strong direction and a persuasive future vision for quality engineering and digital service assurance across DVSA.
- Manage and engage with honesty and integrity, acting as a role‑model and upholding the reputation of the Agency, Department and Civil Service.
Qualifications / Person Specification
- Strong strategic leadership experience within software testing, quality engineering or digital delivery, with the ability to define and implement organisational quality strategies that support reliable, secure and user‑focused digital services.
- Demonstrable experience of modern quality engineering practices, including test automation, continuous testing, risk‑based quality approaches and integration of quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Strong technical understanding of software delivery practices, tooling and engineering approaches, combined with the ability to guide teams in adopting scalable and sustainable quality practices.
- Proven ability to lead, influence and develop professional capability across teams, fostering a collaborative and quality‑focused culture.
Benefits
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of base salary.
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (maximum 30 days), plus 8 bank holidays and an additional privilege day for the King’s birthday.
- Flexible working options encouraging a healthy work‑life balance.
How to apply: Please apply through the DVSA website.
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