Quality Engineer

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

Quality Engineer

6 Month contract initially + Extensions

Based: Hybrid - 2 days p/w onsite in Telford

Rate - £350 - £450 p/d via Umbrella

We have a great opportunity with a world leading organisation where you will be provided with all of the support and development to succeed. A progressive organisation where you can really make a difference. We have a great opportunity for a Quality Engineer on a long term program of work.

Key Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Designing and implementing test solutions and the automation to support these, often from scratch, by applying best practice approaches
• 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.

Quality Engineers are expected to be, or become, T-shaped, able to operate across the product stack, including involvement in development activities through pair-programming techniques.

Key Skills & Experience:

• CI/CD
• Software Testing
• Gitlab (understanding of Git at least is essential)
• Java/Spring
• Proven communication skills
• Proven team engagement skills
• Proven coaching skills
• Quality Driven
• Adaptable/ability to context switch
• Stakeholder Management

Optional Skills:

• 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

This is an excellent opportunity on a great project of work, If you are looking for your next exciting opportunity, we will respond as soon as possible.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of background or identity, and we encourage candidates who may not meet every listed requirement to still apply. If you require any adjustments or support during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure a fair and accessible experience.