Quality Engineer

Role Details

Location: Mostly Remote (Telford 2 days/month on-site)

Duration: 6 months

Rate: £525 per day, Inside IR35

Clearance: BPSS

Sector: Public Sector/Government

Key Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing test solutions and automation from scratch, applying best-practice approaches
• Applying structured testing and automation approaches aligned with TDD/BDD
• Bringing experience of testing within the CI/CD lifecycle and its supporting technologies
• Applying risk-based testing methodologies and strong test design/analysis techniques
• Upskilling the engineering team to build QA capability as a whole-team responsibility
• Managing test data in line with best practice
• Covering the full test spectrum - Unit, System, Functional, Integration - plus NFR testing (performance, accessibility, security)
• Analysing complex business requirements, processes and technical architectures to inform the testing solution
• Operating in a T-shaped way across the product stack, including pair-programming with developers

Skills and Experience Required

• Strong CI/CD experience
• Solid software testing background
• Git/GitLab proficiency
• Java/Spring experience
• Proven communication, team engagement and coaching skills
• Adaptable, quality-driven, comfortable with context switching
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Previous Government and/or Public Sector experience

Desirable Skills

• JUnit, Playwright, Gatling, OWASP ZAP, SonarQube, GitHub Copilot, Wiremock, Wave, Axe
• Kubernetes, Docker, Microservices, AWS
• Open API, WCAG
• Cucumber/Gherkin, Selenium
• Agile Scrum/Agile Practices