Hybrid Quality Engineer: Automation & CI/CD

LA International; Shrewsbury; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

LA International is seeking a Quality Engineer for a 6-month contract hybrid role with 2 days onsite per week in Telford. The role focuses on ensuring quality across the full test lifecycle and enabling automation to shift left and reduce risk.

You will work with CI/CD tooling, Java/Spring, and GitLab, collaborating with teams to improve test coverage, automate where possible, and support manual testing when needed.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering quality across CI/CD pipelines and test automation.
• Strong knowledge of test strategies, risk-based testing, and test data creation.
• Experience with Java/Spring and GitLab workflows.

Responsibilities

• Ensure quality is a full team responsibility across all test levels.
• Governing and supporting the 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.
• Ensure applications are built to be tested via automation.
• Supports manual testing when automation avenues are exhausted.
• Designing and implementing test solutions and the automation to support these, often from scratch.
• Applying structured testing and automation approaches with TDD/BDD.
• Bringing broad testing experience within the CI/CD lifecycle and automation frameworks.
• Applying test approaches and risk-based testing methodologies.
• Upskilling the engineering team to increase QA capability.
• Implementing test design techniques and strong test analysis skills.
• Knowledge of databases and test data creation.
• Applying best practices for Test data management.
• Responsible for the quality of testing collateral.
• Broad knowledge of test levels (Unit, System, Functional, Integration) and NFR testing.

Skills

CI/CD

Software Testing

Gitlab

Java/Spring

Proven communication skills

Proven team engagement skills

Proven coaching skills

Quality Driven

Adaptable/ability to context switch

Stakeholder Management

Tools

Junit

Playwright

Gatling

OWASP Zap

SonarQube

GitHub Co-pilot

Wiremock

Wave

Axe

Kubernetes

Docker

Micro-services

AWS

Open API

WCAG

Cucumber/Gherkin

Selenium

Agile Scrum

Agile Practices

Job description

LA International is seeking a Quality Engineer for a 6-month contract hybrid role with 2 days onsite per week in Telford. The role focuses on ensuring quality across the full test lifecycle and enabling automation to shift left and reduce risk.

You will work with CI/CD tooling, Java/Spring, and GitLab, collaborating with teams to improve test coverage, automate where possible, and support manual testing when needed.