Quality Engineer

Experis - ManpowerGroup

Dawley

Hybrid

GBP 59,778 - 99,630

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Experis - ManpowerGroup is seeking a Quality Engineer in Telford with hybrid working options (2 days in office). You will drive quality across the scrum team, implementing the Core Modernisation Test Strategy and automation to shift left and reduce risk.

The role requires strong testing and automation experience within CI/CD, plus the ability to coach others and collaborate across the team. The initial contract is 6 months, with umbrella payroll options and a daily rate of up to £540.

Qualifications

Experience delivering quality engineering within CI/CD pipelines.
Ability to apply risk-based testing and test automation strategies.
Knowledge of databases and test data creation is desirable.
Experience with automated testing frameworks and shift-left testing.
Strong communication skills and coaching others in QA practices.

Responsibilities

Apply structured testing and automation approaches using TDD/BDD.
Contribute to CI/CD lifecycle with automation and testing frameworks.
Perform risk-based testing and ensure test coverage across levels (Unit, System, Functional, Integration).
Upskill the engineering team to improve QA capability.
Design and analyze tests, data, and collateral to ensure quality.

Skills

CI/CD

Software Testing

Gitlab

Java/Spring

Communication

Coaching

Quality Driven

Adaptable/Context switch

Management

Tools

JUnit

Playwright

Gatling

OWASP Zap

SonarQube

GitHub Copilot

Wiremock

Wave

Axe

Kubernetes

Docker

Micro-services

AWS

Open API

WCAG

Cucumber/Gherkin

Selenium

Agile Scrum

Agile Practices

Job description

Quality Engineer

Rate: up to £540 per day - Umbrella only

Duration: 6 months

Location: Telford with 2 days/week in office

Clearance: BPSS

Role Purpose

Quality Engineers are the custodians of quality within the scrum team, who implement the Core Modernisation Test Strategy and Project Test Approaches defined by the QA and QA Service Leads. 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.

Main roles and responsibilities include

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.

Required Skills