Quality Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus scheme 10%

Pension scheme – company match up to 5

Critical illness cover

Income protection

Death in service 4x salary

27 days holiday + bank holidays (+ up

Private medical insurance

Dental insurance

Job summary

The Openwork Partnership in Swindon is seeking a hands-on Quality Engineer to own and evolve automated tests across unit, integration, API, and end-to-end layers using the .NET stack. You will embed quality gates into CI/CD pipelines and help drive shift-left practices.

Join a hybrid role with 3 days in the office. You will shape test strategy, contribute to performance testing, and work with observability tools to improve release readiness and quality insights.

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).

Responsibilities

• Owning and evolving the automated test suite across unit, integration, API, and end-to-end layers using the .NET stack.
• Embedding quality gates into CI/CD pipelines, including automated tests, coverage thresholds, and build-breaking checks.
• Championing shift-left quality practices, identifying risks, gaps, and ambiguities early in the delivery lifecycle.
• Building and maintaining observability across services — logging, alerting, and synthetic monitoring.
• Developing and applying AI-assisted testing approaches, ensuring safe and governed use.
• Defining and maintaining the test strategy, balancing automation and exploratory testing.
• Collaborating with engineers to triage and resolve defects, identifying root causes.
• Contributing to performance and load testing where required.
• Supporting release decisions with objective, evidence-based quality insights.
• Collaborating across tribes to drive consistent quality standards and tooling.

Skills

Automated testing

Quality engineering

CI/CD integration

Observability

Embedded team experience

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Playwright

Selenium

Moq

NSubstitute

Postman

Newman

RestSharp

k6

JMeter

NBomber

Application Insights

Azure Monitor

Job description

As a Quality Engineer,you’llbe an embedded engineer, working alongside developers to prevent defects, build robust automation, and ensure quality is a shared outcome.

This is a hands-on, mid-level role for someone who alreadyoperates this way: an engineer who specialises in quality, not a tester adding automation as an afterthought.

This is a hybrid role based in Swindon, with the requirement to be in the office 3 days a week.

Benefits package:

• Salary - up to £55,000
• Bonus scheme - on target bonus - 10%
• Pension scheme - contribute up to 5% of your salary and Openwork will match you and put in an extra 5%
• Critical illness cover
• Income protection
• Death in service - 4x salary
• 27 days holiday + bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy up to an additional 10 days
• A range of other flexible benefits to include private medical insurance, dental insurance and much more.

Key responsibilities:

• Owning and evolving the automated test suite across unit, integration, API, and end-to-end layers using the .NET stack
• Embedding quality gates into CI/CD pipelines, including automated tests, coverage thresholds, and build-breaking checks
• Championing shift-left quality practices,identifyingrisks, gaps, and ambiguities early in the delivery lifecycle
• Building andmaintainingobservability across services — logging, alerting, and synthetic monitoring
• Developing and applying agentic/AI-assisted testing approaches, ensuring safe and governed use
• Defining andmaintainthe test strategy, balancingautomationand exploratory testing
• Collaborating with engineers to triage and resolve defects,identifyingroot causes
• Contributing to performance and load testing whererequired
• Supporting release decisions with objective, evidence-based quality insights
• Collaborating across tribes to drive consistent quality standards and tooling

What will you need to succeed?

• Proven experience as a Quality Engineer or Software Developer in Test, building automated test suites in live systems
• Experience working 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
• Technical Expertise:
  • Strong .NET development skills, writing clean, maintainable test code
  • Experience with testing frameworks (xUnit,NUnit,MSTest) and mocking tools (Moq,NSubstitute)
  • Proven experience testing APIs and services (REST, automation tools such asRestSharp, Postman/Newman)
  • Practical experience with end-to-end automation tools (Playwright, Selenium)
  • CI/CD experience with pipeline optimisation and test execution strategies
  • Familiarity with observability tools (Application Insights, Azure Monitor)
  • Exposure to performance testing tools (k6, JMeter,NBomber)
• Awareness of security testing principles (e.g. OWASP, SAST, dependency scanning)

Why us?

At The Openwork Partnership, we're a dynamic, fast paced, and growing business with huge ambition. This is all made possible by the brilliant people who are part of The Openwork Partnership family. We're investing heavily in our colleagues, continuously striving to give them the platform to develop personally and professionally and reach their full potential.

We’re also very proud of our culture, as one of the Best 100 Large Companies to work for in 2022. The Openwork Partnership values, and respects individuality and we are committed to building an inclusive culture and environment which truly recognises and celebrates our colleague’s individual differences and identities – just like our financial advice, for us, it’s personal. We believe everyone can make a difference and your race, religion, disability, and gender will never be a barrier. At Openwork, we have a strong ethic of care for each other where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work. We believe that you will bring your best self to work if you are trusted to choose when, where and how you do it.