Embedded Quality Engineer: .NET Automation & CI/CD

Openwork Ltd; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus scheme 10%

Pension scheme – company match up to 5

Critical illness cover

Income protection

Death in service 4x salary

27 days holiday + bank holidays (+ up

Private medical insurance

Dental insurance

Job summary

The Openwork Partnership in Swindon is seeking a hands-on Quality Engineer to own and evolve automated tests across unit, integration, API, and end-to-end layers using the .NET stack. You will embed quality gates into CI/CD pipelines and help drive shift-left practices.

Join a hybrid role with 3 days in the office. You will shape test strategy, contribute to performance testing, and work with observability tools to improve release readiness and quality insights.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Quality Engineer or Software Developer in Test, building automated test suites in live systems.
• Experience as an embedded member of an engineering team (not a separate QA function).
• Strong experience integrating quality gates into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar).

Responsibilities

• Owning and evolving the automated test suite across unit, integration, API, and end-to-end layers using the .NET stack.
• Embedding quality gates into CI/CD pipelines, including automated tests, coverage thresholds, and build-breaking checks.
• Championing shift-left quality practices, identifying risks, gaps, and ambiguities early in the delivery lifecycle.
• Building and maintaining observability across services — logging, alerting, and synthetic monitoring.
• Developing and applying AI-assisted testing approaches, ensuring safe and governed use.
• Defining and maintaining the test strategy, balancing automation and exploratory testing.
• Collaborating with engineers to triage and resolve defects, identifying root causes.
• Contributing to performance and load testing where required.
• Supporting release decisions with objective, evidence-based quality insights.
• Collaborating across tribes to drive consistent quality standards and tooling.

Skills

Automated testing

Quality engineering

CI/CD integration

Observability

Embedded team experience

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Playwright

Selenium

Moq

NSubstitute

Postman

Newman

RestSharp

k6

JMeter

NBomber

Application Insights

Azure Monitor

Job description

The Openwork Partnership in Swindon is seeking a hands-on Quality Engineer to own and evolve automated tests across unit, integration, API, and end-to-end layers using the .NET stack. You will embed quality gates into CI/CD pipelines and help drive shift-left practices.

Join a hybrid role with 3 days in the office. You will shape test strategy, contribute to performance testing, and work with observability tools to improve release readiness and quality insights.