Embedded Quality Engineer - .NET, CI/CD & Automation

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

Benefits offered by this job

Salary up to £55,000

On-target bonus 10%

Pension matched 5% + 5% by Openwork

Critical illness cover

Income protection

Death in service 4x salary

27 days holiday + bank holidays (+ up-

Additional 10 days purchase

Private medical insurance

Dental insurance

Job summary

The Openwork Partnership in Swindon is seeking a mid-level Quality Engineer to own automated testing across unit, API, and end-to-end layers. You will embed quality gates into CI/CD pipelines and work closely with developers to prevent defects and raise quality as a shared outcome.

This hybrid role requires three days in the Swindon office and offers a salary up to £55,000 with a 10% on-target bonus plus a pension match and other benefits.

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).
• Experience with observability tooling in cloud environments.
• Familiarity with security testing principles (OWASP, SAST, dependency scanning).
• Extensive .NET testing and API/automation tooling experience.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the automated test suite across unit, integration, API, and end-to-end layers using the .NET stack.
• Embed quality gates into CI/CD pipelines, including automated tests, coverage thresholds, and build-breaking checks.
• Champion shift-left quality practices, identifying risks, gaps, and ambiguities early in the delivery lifecycle.
• Build observability across services — logging, alerting, and synthetic monitoring.
• Develop AI-assisted testing approaches, ensuring safe and governed use.
• Define and maintain the test strategy, balancing automation and exploratory testing.
• Collaborate with engineers to triage and resolve defects, identifying root causes.
• Contribute to performance and load testing where required.
• Support release decisions with objective, evidence-based quality insights.
• Collaborate across tribes to drive consistent quality standards and tooling.

Skills

CI/CD integration

Observability tooling

NET testing

API testing

Playwright/Selenium

Security testing basics

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

xUnit

Moq

NSubstitute

RestSharp

Postman

Playwright

Selenium

Application Insights

Azure Monitor

k6

JMeter

NBomber

Job description

The Openwork Partnership in Swindon is seeking a mid-level Quality Engineer to own automated testing across unit, API, and end-to-end layers. You will embed quality gates into CI/CD pipelines and work closely with developers to prevent defects and raise quality as a shared outcome.

This hybrid role requires three days in the Swindon office and offers a salary up to £55,000 with a 10% on-target bonus plus a pension match and other benefits.