Overview

Join to apply for the Senior Test Engineer role at Student Loans Company.

SLC offer a blended working model which will typically be 2 days in the office and 3 days from home.

Type: Full time, Permanent

Closing Date: 28th September 2025

About the role

SLC has an exciting permanent opportunity for someone to join our Test Centre of Excellence as a Senior Test Engineer. As a Senior Test Engineer, you will support test delivery of our projects and changes. You will also have excellent senior test skills to drive test quality across delivery, utilising defined standards and best practice. You will have a deep understanding of software testing, its main principles, and processes: different testing levels, types, test estimation and reporting. The role demands a proactive confident team player who can work in a dynamic agile environment with good communication skills to interact with business and technical colleagues. You will also actively contribute to continuous improvement, act as a mentor and coach other test team members and promote QA across the organisation. If you are ready to lead with expertise, inspire others, and help shape the future of testing at SLC, we’d love to hear from you.

What you bring

• Extensive experience across the full software testing lifecycle in Agile environments, with a strong grasp of testing principles, levels (unit to UAT), and the ability to shape effective testing strategies.
• Proactive in driving continuous improvement, regularly proposing enhancements to practices and processes that boost team efficiency and software delivery quality.
• Excellent technical acumen, including understanding of system architecture components (application servers, databases, web services, cloud), and working knowledge of Oracle PL/SQL.
• Familiarity with Service Oriented Architecture and messaging protocols, with hands-on experience using tools such as Swagger and Postman.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, essential for engaging with both technical and business stakeholders in a dynamic Agile setting.
• Relevant qualifications or equivalent practical experience, with proficiency in industry-standard tools including Confluence, JIRA, Zephyr, and ALM.

Benefits and career development

• 28 days annual leave plus 8 public holidays
• Option to buy/sell annual leave
• Flexi-time and enhanced flexible working options available
• Option to join the Civil Service pension scheme
• Life insurance cover for 4 x annual salary
• Enhanced company sick pay and family leave including maternity, paternity and adoption
• Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, access to the Civil Service Sports and Leisure Club for discounted gym memberships, and an optional dental insurance scheme
• To find out what’s it’s like to work at Student Loans Company click here SLC Careers

The Legal Bits

We’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some background checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include employment history, criminal record check, credit reference check and fraud check.

SLC are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are inclusive for all candidates and will make reasonable adjustments for those who consider themselves to have a disability or long-term condition in line with the Equality Act 2010. Our application process provides candidates with the opportunity to request reasonable adjustments but if you would like to discuss this in more detail, please email ask_recruitment@slc.co.uk.