Recruiter: Lloyd Hughes
If you enjoy solving difficult technical problems, building software, and finding innovative ways to improve quality across complex systems, we'd love to hear from you.
We're growing our engineering teams and recruiting Software Developers in Test (SDETs) at all experience levels to help deliver technology that supports mission-critical services.
As an SDET, you'll combine software engineering and quality engineering skills to build the tools, frameworks and automation capabilities that help teams deliver secure, resilient and reliable technology. You'll work closely with software engineers, architects, delivery teams and customers to ensure quality is designed into solutions from the very beginning of the development lifecycle.
Whether you're developing automated test frameworks, improving CI/CD pipelines, validating complex integrations, analysing system behaviour or creating tooling that helps teams move faster with confidence, you'll be helping deliver technology that genuinely matters.
With a background is in software engineering, automation, test engineering, DevOps, platform engineering or site reliability, you'll have opportunities to grow your career within a broad engineering community.
We don't see quality as something that's added at the end of development. We believe quality is engineered into products from the start.
Every engineering team wants to move quickly. The challenge is doing so without compromising trust, resilience or reliability. Our Software Developers in Test help teams achieve exactly that, building the automation, tooling and engineering practices that enable mission-critical services to evolve with confidence.
Note: To apply for this role you must already hold the relevant DV Security Clearance. This job role can be based in Ipswich, London or Manchester. Due to security requirements, this role requires you to be located on site during your working hours. Mon-Fri 37.5.
Above all, we're looking for engineers who are naturally curious, enjoy solving difficult problems and are passionate about improving quality through software engineering.
Depending on your skills, interests and experience, you may:
• How do you build confidence into software before it reaches production?
• How can automation help engineering teams move faster without sacrificing quality?
• How do you prove that a mission-critical service is ready for the real world?
• What hidden risks exist inside complex technology environments?
• How do modern engineering teams balance quality, reliability and delivery speed?
• How can software engineering and quality engineering work together to improve outcomes?
• What does great quality engineering look like in the age of AI?
• How can I continue developing my technical skills while working on technology that genuinely matters?
You don't need to have all the answers already. We're looking for people with curiosity, enthusiasm, strong engineering fundamentals and a willingness to learn
We know great engineers don't always fit neatly into a checklist. If your experience aligns with many of the areas below, we'd encourage you to apply.
• Experience developing software, automation, tooling or engineering solutions.
• Understanding of software engineering principles and modern development practices.
• Experience working within Agile software delivery environments.
• Ability to analyse complex technical problems and develop practical solutions.
• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to deliver successful outcomes.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Commitment to continuous learning and engineering excellence.
• Ability to obtain and maintain UK Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance.
• Test automation and quality engineering.
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
• Performance, reliability or resilience engineering.
• Platform engineering and developer tooling.
• Cloud-native or distributed systems.
• Infrastructure and environment automation.
• Observability, monitoring and diagnostics.
• Secure or highly assured technology environments.
When you join our team, you'll play a role in delivering work that makes a real difference across the UK. In return, you'll be rewarded with a market-leading Total Reward package that reflects the value of your skills and expertise. From structured technical progression and industry-recognised training to generous family support and flexible benefits, we're committed to helping our people succeed at every stage of their career journey.
• A structured Technical Progression Pathway to recognise and reward appropriate technical people.
• Competitive DV market aligned salaries
• Tiered role based DV allowance
• World-class training and development opportunities
• 10% on target bonus
• Equal family leave: receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It’s for all parents, no matter how your family is made up.
• Enhanced women’s health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more.
• BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
• New BT Better Workplace working environments at strategic locations across the UK
• Huge range of flexible benefits including an EV salary sacrifice, cycle to work, healthcare, season ticket loan, additional annual leave
• On-call allowance (Depending on role requirements)
• Access to 100’s of retail discounts including the BT shop
• 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues
• Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes
• 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
• 2 weeks paid carer’s leave
• Discounted broadband, mobile and TV packages
• Enhanced life assurance of up to ten times base salary
