QA Engineer

Methods Business and Digital Technology; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

LinkedIn Learning access

Wellness program

Breakfast Tuesdays

25 days annual leave

Pension Salary Exchange

Job summary

Methods Business and Digital Technology seeks a QA Engineer to join a remote team with limited travel to London. You will perform high-quality functional and non-functional testing on complex systems in an Agile, CI/CD environment and actively improve automated tests for efficiency.

You will collaborate with developers, DevOps and product stakeholders to understand testing impact, manage defects, and drive testing strategy using Java, Serenity, RestAssured and Postman.

Qualifications

• Experience in agile testing within a fast-paced CI/CD environment.
• Strong Java coding experience and automated test frameworks like Serenity and RestAssured.
• API testing using Postman and modern automation tools.
• Experience with securing SDLC and DevSecOps tooling.

Responsibilities

• Perform functional and non-functional testing (performance, accessibility, security) within an Agile team.
• Develop and maintain test automation scripts and solutions.
• Create and execute performance/load/stress tests using standard/open-source tools.
• Triage defects and support rapid resolution for delivery teams.
• Collaborate with distributed teams to ensure testing quality and cross-functional alignment.
• Promote solid testing practices across stakeholders.

Skills

Agile practices

Java

Test automation

API testing

CI/CD

Jira/Confluence

Postman

WebdriverIO/Playwright

K6

Azure

Education

ISEB Certification in Software Testing

Tools

Serenity

RestAssured

GitHub

Jenkins

GitLab SaaS

Artifactory

Nexus

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Methods is driven by a desire to improve public services for the benefit of all the people who use them, leveraging current technologies to deliver user centred solutions and having an internal culture that allows our staff to express themselves and be innovative.

Location

remote role with some travel to London (limited)

As a QA Engineer you will be expected to work at one of our clients and perform high quality functional and non-functional testing on complex systems. You must be familiar with Agile practices and tools and able to work in fast paced CI/CD environment. You will be proactive and always look for ways to improve the automated tests to make them more efficient.

You will work closely with developers, devops engineers and business stakeholders (operations, incident management and product management) to understand the positive and negative impact software can have on end users and provide accurate updates on the progress and outcomes of testing.

Responsibilities

• Perform functional and non-functional (performance, accessibility, security, operational/user acceptance) testing, working within an Agile team.

• Develop and maintain test automation solutions and scripts, promoting best practices within the development team

• Develop and maintain performance/load/stress testing solutions using standard or open-source tools

• Resolve problems and blockers as they occur and help to unlock the progress of testing

• Collaborate, communicate & work effectively with geographically distributed cross-functional teams

• Defect Management, ensuring that defects are effectively triaged and managed until resolution

• Promote the value of solid testing practices to all delivery stakeholders and influence adoption of best practice

• Experience with devising TDD/BDD or Acceptance Test Driven Development strategies using a range of tools/frameworks, ensuring test coverage and execution is in line with the project, programme or portfolio Test Strategy and Business Risk Objectives.

• Strong Java coding experience and knowledge of automated test frameworks e.g. Serenity, RestAssured

• Strong experience using API testing tools, ideally Postman

• Experience with integrating testing as part of the Secure-SDLC and CI/CD tooling in an DevSecOps environment using: GitHub, Jenkins, GitLab SaaS, Artifactory, Nexus etc.

• Experience with testing citizen facing services

• Experience with testing highly scalable, distributed, cloud native (PaaS/FaaS) and microservice orientated architecture applications leveraging containerisation, container orchestration, service mesh, messaging, proxies, API, persistent and epithelial storage etc.

• Experience using formal Test Management tools (Jira/Confluence, ALM).

• Good awareness of Application Lifecycle Management and IT Service Management using tools such as Splunk, Grafana and ServiceNow.

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Experience of using JavaScript Automation Frameworks such as WebdriverIO, Playwright

• Experience of running stress/load testing using K6 and Grafana or other/similar open-source tools.

• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure Portal

• ISEB Certification in Software Testing

Desirable Requirements

• Experience with data migration projects
• Experience working in the Public Sector

This role will require you to have or be willing to go through Security Clearance. As part of the onboarding process candidates will be asked to complete a Baseline Personnel Security Standard; details of the evidence required to apply may be found on the government website Gov.UK. If you are unable to meet this and any associated criteria, then your employment may be delayed, or rejected. Details of this will be discussed with you at interview.

By joining us you can expect

• Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience
• Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society
• Strong, inspiring and thought-provoking leadership
• A supportive and collaborative environment

As well as this, we offer

• Development access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme and training
• Wellness 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme
• Social - Breakfast Tuesdays, Thirsty Thursdays and Pizza on the last Thursday of each month as well as commitment to charitable causes
• Time off 25 days a year; plus the opportunity to purchase extra leave per year
• Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution
• Life Assurance of 4 times base salary
• Private Medical Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)
• Worldwide Travel Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)