Quality Engineer

Quality Engineer

Location: Telford / Hybrid - 2 days per week onsite
Rate: £430 per day inside IR35
Contract: 6 months
Clearance: BPSS eligible

We are looking for an experienced Quality Engineer to join a major public sector modernisation programme.

The successful candidate will be a key member of the Scrum team, taking ownership of quality across the development lifecycle and helping to embed a Quality Engineering and shift-left approach.

Key Responsibilities

Design and implement automated test solutions and frameworks, often from scratch.
Apply structured testing approaches aligned with TDD/BDD.
Develop and maintain automated testing throughout the CI/CD lifecycle.
Apply risk-based testing and effective test design techniques.
Ensure applications are built with automation and testability in mind.
Test across Unit, System, Functional and Integration levels.
Support NFR testing including performance, accessibility and security.
Work with databases and test data creation/management.
Analyse complex business requirements, processes and technical architectures to develop effective test solutions.
Coach and upskill developers and wider engineering teams on quality practices.
Work collaboratively with developers, including through pair programming.
Support manual testing where automation is not appropriate.
Ensure testing collateral is maintained to a high standard.
Engage with stakeholders and contribute to a strong quality-focused culture.

Essential Skills

Strong experience as a Quality Engineer, Automation Test Engineer or SDET.
Strong software testing and automation experience.
CI/CD experience.
Git / GitLab.
Java / Spring.
TDD / BDD understanding.
Strong test analysis, test design and risk-based testing skills.
Experience across multiple test levels.
Database and test data experience.
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
Experience working within Agile/Scrum teams.
Proven coaching and team engagement skills.
Ability to adapt and context switch across different priorities.

Desirable

JUnit
Playwright / Selenium
Cucumber / Gherkin
Gatling
OWASP ZAP
SonarQube
WireMock
Kubernetes / Docker
Microservices
AWS
OpenAPI
WCAG / Axe / Wave
GitHub Copilot
Agile Scrum practices

If this role is of interest apply now or email your CV to me at (url removed)