Quality Engineer

Experis - ManpowerGroup; Telford; On-site; GBP 77,000 - 87,000; Full time

Job summary

Experis - ManpowerGroup is seeking a Quality Engineer to contribute to modernisation initiatives in Telford, UK. The role involves building automation, applying risk-based testing and ensuring QA is embedded in the team throughout the CI/CD cycle.

You will design test solutions from scratch, mentor the team on best practices, and support both manual and automated testing across units, systems and integrations. 2 days onsite weekly.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering QA within CI/CD pipelines and modern test strategies.
• Solid understanding of structured testing and risk-based approaches.
• Experience with automation frameworks and testing in a CI/CD lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement test solutions and automation to support projects.
• Apply testing approaches with TDD/BDD and align with best practices.
• Upskill the engineering team to improve overall QA capability.
• Implement test design techniques and strong test analysis.
• Manage test data and ensure quality of testing collateral.

Skills

CI/CD

Software Testing

Gitlab

Java/Spring

Communication skills

Team engagement

Coaching

Quality driven

Adaptability

Stakeholder management

Tools

GitHub Co-pilot

Playwright

Gatling

OWASP ZAP

SonarQube

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Open API

WCAG

Selenium

Cucumber/Gherkin

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 frameworksApplying 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:

• 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

  If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from us, please contact us via the ManpowerGroup website.