Quality Engineer

Quality Engineer

Posted Today by Experis UK

£60,000 Per year
Undetermined
Undetermined
Telford, England, United Kingdom

Summary: The Quality Engineer role at Experis involves ensuring quality within the scrum team by implementing testing strategies and supporting best practices. The position requires designing and automating test solutions while fostering a culture of quality across the team. The role also emphasizes collaboration, coaching, and upskilling team members in quality assurance methodologies. This position is based in Telford and requires BPSS clearance.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Designing and implementing test solutions and automation from scratch.
  • Applying structured testing and automation approaches aligned with TDD/BDD.
  • Bringing experience of testing within the CI/CD lifecycle and automation testing frameworks.
  • Implementing risk-based testing methodologies and upskilling the engineering team.
  • Managing test data and ensuring quality of testing collateral.
  • Analyzing complex business requirements and technical designs for testing solutions.
  • Operating across the product stack and participating in development activities.

Key Skills:

  • CI/CD Software Testing.
  • Understanding of Git (GitLab preferred).
  • Java/Spring proficiency.
  • Proven communication and team engagement skills.
  • Coaching abilities and quality-driven mindset.
  • Adaptability and stakeholder management skills.

Salary (Rate): £60,000 yearly

City: Telford

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Job Title: Quality Engineer
Clearance Required: BPSS
Location: Telford with 2 days/week in office
Salary: £55,000 - £60,000
We are actively looking to secure a Quality Engineer to join Experis. Experis Consultancy is a Global entity with a well-established team with over 1000 consultants on assignment across 20 clients globally. Our UK operation is growing and has very aggressive plans for expansion over the coming years. We form part of the Manpower group of companies that turn over $20 billion a year collectively. Experis UK have partnerships with major clients across the UK spanning multiple industries; our approach is a very personal one, with both our clients and our own employees. We are passionate about training, technology and career development.
Job Description
Quality Engineers are the custodians of quality within the scrum team, who implement the Core Modernisation Test Strategy and Project Test Approaches defined by the QA and QA Service Leads. They Embody The Quality Engineering Approach Ensuring quality is a full team responsibility across all test levels Governing and supporting the whole team to follow best practice Achieving the appropriate level of test coverage throughout the test lifecycle Enabling the use of automated tools to 'shift left' quality assurance and reduce risk - shortening the feedback loop for proving features Ensure applications are built to be tested via automation. Supports manual testing when all automation avenues have been exhausted.
Main Roles And Responsibilities Include
Designing and implementing test solutions and the automation to support these, often from scratch, by applying best practice approaches
Applying structured testing and automation approaches, utilising technologies aligned with TDD/BDD
Bringing a breadth of experience of testing within the CI/CD lifecycle, its supporting technologies and experience of automation testing frameworks
Applying test approaches and applying risk-based testing methodologies
Upskilling the engineering team to increase QA capability as a whole team responsibility
Implementing test design techniques, strong test analysis skills
Knowledge of databases and test data creation
Applying best practices when identifying and managing Test data
Responsible for the quality of the testing collateral
Broad knowledge of test levels across Unit, System, Functional and Integration along with NFR testing (typically performance, accessibility, and security testing)
Analyse complex business requirements, business processes, and technical architectures and designs. Uses these as the basis for the Testing solution.Quality Engineers are expected to be, or become, T-shaped, able to operate across the product stack, including involvement in development activities through pair-programming techniques.
Required Skills
CI/CD Software Testing
Gitlab (understanding of Git at least is essential)
Java/Spring
Proven communication skills
Proven team engagement skills
Proven coaching skills
Quality Driven
Adaptable/ability to context switch
Stakeholder Management
Benefits Include
Contributory pension scheme
Employee Assistance Program
Medical and Dental cover
22 days holiday + bank holidays
Maternity Pay/Shared Parental leave and paternity leave
Sick pay
Suitable Candidates should submit CVs in the first instance.