Senior Test Analyst

Employment Type:

Full time Fixed term contract until March 31st 2029

Location:

Hybrid
· United Kingdom (multiple locations) Bristol
· Swindon
· Birmingham
· Manchester
· York
· Newcastle
· Cambridge
· Portsmouth Inclusive with hybrid working where you are based between the office and home

Team:
Corporate Services

Seniority:
Mid-level

• Closing: 11:59pm, 16th Jul 2026 BST

• Work from home option
• Wellness programs
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Additional parental leave
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Paid emergency leave
• Sabbatical Opportunities
• Mentoring/coaching
• Payroll giving
• Salary sacrifice
• Team social events
• Team lunches
• Extracurricular clubs
• Cycle to work scheme

We are the public body that looks after England’s historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them.

Historic England has a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our Senior Test Analyst. This is a full time, fixed term contract until 31st March 2029. The location of this role is National where we offer hybrid working; you will be based in one of our offices and from home – Newcastle, York, Manchester, Birmingham, Swindon, Bristol, Portsmouth (Fort Cumberland) and Cambridge.

We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive defined benefit pension scheme to which we make 28.97% employer contributions, a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the country and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals.

This role is an integral part of the Testing team, working on Agile & Waterfall Project Delivery Teams to drive up quality assurance of IT changes, improvements and innovation work streams and initiatives. You will robustly champion and deliver a wide variety of testing types from system, integration, regression, performance, accessibility, to functional and UAT disciplines, across our diverse software, hardware and User network.

• Experience of working across Agile and Waterfall Projects in a testing capacity
• Experience of improving testing practices / contributing to ways of working
• Test automation and regression test experience

We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you.

We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We want to make sure our working arrangements don’t prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances.

We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can.

Provisional interview dates: 23rd July 2026