AMS PSR

On behalf of The Ministry of Justice we are looking for an Automation Test Engineer (Inside IR35) for a 6 month contract. Hybrid working with up to 2 days per week in any MOJ UK office. 

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) priorities include improving public safety and reducing reoffending by reforming prisons, probation and youth justice, and building a justice system which makes access to justice swifter and more certain for all citizens whatever their background. Project professionals in the MoJ help to improve the government’s ability to protect the public and reduce reoffending, and to provide a more effective, transparent and responsive criminal justice system for victims and the public.

You will be joining one of two multidisciplinary digital teams working to Government Digital Service (GDS) standards: the Accredited Programmes team or the Single Accommodation Service team.

The Single Accommodation Service is building a new system to help staff find suitable accommodation in a more consistent and efficient way. The current process has no single source of truth, requires repeated data entry, and depends heavily on individual workarounds. The new service will provide one place to manage and track accommodation referrals, reduce cognitive load for staff, ensure the right referral reaches the right person at the right time, and deliver national consistency while supporting local professional judgement.

The Accredited Programmes team is delivering a digital service that supports Building Choices, a simplified, evidence based programme for people on probation. The service helps programme teams schedule participants, track attendance and progress, and capture high quality data to understand programme effectiveness. It will also replace the legacy Interventions Manager system, with functionality designed to align the community and prison contexts over time.

Essential:

• An active 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.) 
• Strong experience designing and implementing automated test frameworks for UI, API, and end to end testing.
• Proficiency with Playwright and/or Cypress for E2E test automation.
• Hands on experience testing services built with Kotlin and TypeScript.
• Strong understanding of API testing, including calls to legacy systems and modern integration services.
• Experience with integration resilience testing (handling failures, timeouts, and degraded upstream dependencies).
• Experience working in environments with multiple APIs and complex system interactions.
• Experience in testing data flows, including verifying data integrity across imports, exports, and sync processes.
• Experience managing and supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with operational teams.

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, MOJ 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

The Ministry of Justice 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".