Quality Test Engineer

Quality Test Engineer

Whitehall Resources are currently looking for a Quality Test Engineer.

This role will be Inside of IR35, so you will be required to use an FCSA Accredited Umbrella Company.

Key Requirements

• The role sits within the data migration workstream and will support the transition of data from existing services into new strategic solutions.
• The work will involve data extraction, transformation and migration activities, helping to ensure data is accurately prepared and transferred as part of the wider transformation journey.
• 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.
• The Quality Engineer will be working in a waterfall delivery area with a team made up of Delivery Leads, Software Architects, Data Engineers and testers
• Quality Engineers are the custodians of quality within the scrum team, who implement the CESA Futures Test Approach defined by the QA Stream Lead. 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.
• These are largely supported by the following technologies:
• Remix React Framework
• Java script
• Form generation ‘engine’
• Java
• Python
• JSON
• RabbitMQ
• MongoDB
• Oracle
• SQL

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Key Skills

• CI/CD
• Software Testing
• Gitlab (understanding of Git at least is essential)
• Proven communication skills
• Proven team engagement skills
• Proven coaching skills
• Quality Driven
• Adaptable/ability to context switch
• Stakeholder Management
• Data Migration experience
• Junit
• Playwright
• Gatling
• OWASP Zap
• SonarQube
• GitHub Copilot
• Wiremock
• Java
• Wave
• Axe
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Micro-services
• AWS
• Open API
• WCAG
• Cucumber/Gherkin
• Selenium
• Agile Scrum
• Agile Practices

All of our opportunities require that applicants are eligible to work in the specified country/location, unless otherwise stated in the job description.

Whitehall Resources are an equal opportunities employer who value a diverse and inclusive working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.