Quality Engineer

Experis

Telford

On-site

GBP 77,000 - 87,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Job summary

Experis is seeking a Quality Engineer in Telford with experience across CI/CD, test automation, and QA leadership. You will design and implement automated test solutions, enable shift-left practices, and ensure thorough test coverage across Unit, System, and Integration levels, including NFR testing such as performance and security.

The role emphasizes collaboration within a scrum team, supporting manual testing where needed, and driving best-practice QA processes in a hybrid onsite setup with 2

Qualifications

QA testing within scrum teams and automation strategy.

Responsibilities

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 breadth of testing experience within CI/CD lifecycle and automation frameworks
Applying risk-based testing methodologies
Upskilling the engineering team to increase QA capability as a whole
Implementing test design techniques and strong test analysis
Knowledge of databases and test data creation
Managing test data with best practices
Ensuring quality of testing collateral
Broad knowledge of test levels across Unit, System, Functional and Integration incl. NFR testing
Analyzing complex requirements, processes, and architectures to shape testing solutions

Skills

CI/CD

Software Testing

Gitlab

Java/Spring

Communication

Team engagement

Coaching

Quality Driven

Adaptability

Stakeholder Management

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Selenium

Playwright

Gatling

OWASP Zap

Junit

Wiremock

Open API

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Quality Engineer

Rate: £420 £470

Clearance Required: BPSS

Duration: 6 months

Location: Telford - 2 days onsite per week

IR35 Status: Inside

Job Description

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

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.

Required Skills