DWP Digital

From Brazil to Newcastle for portfolio and delivery

Posted by: Luiz Dias, portfolio and delivery assurance, Posted on: 19 March 2019 - Categories: DWP Digital, Portfolio delivery

Luiz moved from Brazil to work with us on portfolio delivery. We're currently recruiting portfolio managers, learn more about why Luiz moved across the world to join us.

Hack for health: Join us in Leeds

Posted by: James Parker, deputy director for Health & Disabilities, Posted on: 8 March 2019 - Categories: Diversity, DWP Digital, Hacks

James talks about why you should join us at our next Hack at The Studio, Leeds on Friday 22 and Saturday 23 March.

Helping to create gender balance for a better workplace

Posted by: Lin B, digital service practice support, Marie Royce, intranet team, Rashmi Hangalur, technical architect and Collett Bellamy, delivery manager, Posted on: 8 March 2019 - Categories: DWP Digital, International Women's Day, Women in Digital

For International Women’s Day some of our Digital Voices have blogged about what the #balanceforbetter theme means to them.

Apprenticeship opportunities

Posted by: Lewis Hardman and Trudie Skies, infrastructure engineers, Posted on: 5 March 2019 - Categories: Apprenticeships, DWP Digital

We have lots of exciting apprenticeship opportunities on the way. In this blog post infrastructure apprentices Lewis and Trudie talk about their experience so far.

Three things I learnt from taking the Income Service into beta and beyond

Posted by: Jason Bell, Posted on: 25 February 2019 - Categories: Digital Service, DWP Digital, Income Service, Service Design, User research

Find out what three main lessons senior user researcher Jason Bell took from developing DWP's digital Income Service.

New year, new job: meet Shilpa

Posted by: Shilpa Basu, test engineer, Posted on: 19 February 2019 - Categories: DWP Digital, Test engineering, Women in Technology

Meet Shilpa, a test engineer who is part of a scrum team to redevelop and re-host a Carer’s Allowance web-based service. She's been in her current role since September last year.

What we’ve learnt from our test automation revolution

Posted by: Matthew Spence, test engineer, Posted on: 15 February 2019 - Categories: DWP Digital, Test engineering

Test engineer, Matthew, talks about working on a project to build a Java Selenium Test Automation Framework to work with a customised Siebel Application and run a fully-automated Regression Pack.

It's not quite history: Why we're still fighting for LGBT equality

Posted by: Alan Oliver, Business Management for DWP Digital Workplace, Posted on: 11 February 2019 - Categories: Diversity, DWP Digital, LGBT*

I've found DWP Digital and the wider Civil Service to be a great place to work, where diversity and inclusion are celebrated and supported at the highest level. Alan reflects on changing times for LGBT History Month.

Life as a test engineer at DWP Digital

Posted by: Kate Boyle, test engineer, Posted on: 8 February 2019 - Categories: DWP Digital, Test engineering, Women in Digital

Being a test engineer in DWP digital is fast-moving, interesting and challenging and it’s opened up some fantastic opportunities.

Time to Talk: about the menopause

Posted by: Jo Owston, Digital Cross Boundary team, Posted on: 7 February 2019 - Categories: Diversity, DWP Digital, Mental health, Women in Digital

Time to Talk Day 2019 is taking place today. In this blog-post Jo talks about how the menopause affected her mental health. On Time to Talk Day we're encouraging everyone to have a conversation about mental health.