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Test Engineer

Ordnance Survey

OS Headquarters, United Kingdom, United KingdomRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 24 Apr 2026

💰 £51,238/yr(£43,918/yr – £51,238/yr)

About the role

Test Engineer - Salary £43,918 to £51,238 (dependent on experience)

HQ Southampton
Permanent

Our growing Technology team plays a key role in ensuring OS is at the forefront of geospatial capability and is looking for people to join them. Its mission is to work across the business to provide customer centric design and technology services.

Join us and you will have an opportunity to make an impact. To empower projects that deliver real-world benefits across Britain and internationally. To hear our customers say they could not have done it without us. And to be central to OS’s vision: to be recognised as world leaders in geospatial services; creating location insight for positive impact.

Join our Dynamic Technology Team

This role will be based within an agile team responsible for the continuous development of cloud-based web applications within the OS Web Estate and supporting back-end infrastructure including API microservices, logging & reporting platforms, and data publication. Ordnance Survey has a testing community of 70+ test professionals that support each other with regular sessions on test related topics, tools, and techniques - be a part of it!

About the role

Extend automated tests using our existing frameworks, and get involved in the creation of new frameworks where required
Focus on both front-end and API testing to ensure seamless user experience and functionality
Contribute your testing expertise into agile team ceremonies such as sprint planning, retrospectives, and daily standups
Clearly communicate software risks & test outcomes with the team, team lead, project manager & test lead
Provide expertise with performance testing of our systems
Support the Ordnance Survey Testing Community, with common standards such as metrics and use of test tools
Employment in this role is conditional upon eligibility for, and approval of, SC level security clearance

Here is a snapshot of the technologies that we use

Java, Selenium, Cucumber BDD, RESTAssured, BrowserStack, Bruno, PostgreSQL, Microsoft Azure, Azure DevOps (sprint backlogs, pipelines, test plans), GIT, YAML, JSON, Snyk/Probely, JMeter

What we’re looking for

Proven experience supporting, contributing to and enhancing Java based Selenium test frameworks
Strong API test automation skills preferably utilising the Java RESTAssured framework
Experienced in carrying out code inspections and peer reviews to ensure quality and maintain high engineering standards.
Experience with BDD (Behaviour-Driven Development) software development methodology
Excellent knowledge and skills in software testing & industry best practices
Working experience with Agile Scrum, collaborating with the team for backlog refinement and ability to estimate testing activities for sprint planning
Knowledge of CI/CD practices, and how they relate to test
Proficiency with non-functional testing, such as performance & accessibility
Experienced with the management of defects, identifying, debugging, and working with the team to resolve them

The Rewards

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Salary £43,918 to £51,238 (dependent on experience)
Performance related bonus up to 10%
A competitive pension scheme (OS contributes up to 12.07%)
28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays on joining additional to bank holidays (3 taking over Christmas)
Paid maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
Free subscription to OS Maps
Access to online learning platforms
Coaching and Mentoring schemes
Plus, a suite of excellent additional perks and benefits

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