Quality Engineer CGEMJP00359139

Experis; Telford; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Experis Austria is seeking a Quality Engineer for a 6-month contract in Telford. The role is hybrid with 2 days onsite and involves implementing the COTAX Modernisation Test Strategy within the QA team.

You will design and automate test solutions, apply TDD/BDD, and ensure QA across CI/CD, contributing to automation-first testing and risk-based approaches while supporting manual testing where needed.

Qualifications

• Designing and implementing test solutions and the automation to support these.
• Applying structured testing and automation approaches, utilising technologies aligned with TDD/BDD.
• Bringing experience of testing within the CI/CD lifecycle and automation testing frameworks.
• Knowledge of databases and test data creation.
• Responsible for the quality of the testing collateral.
• Broad knowledge of test levels across Unit, System, Functional and Integration and NFR testing.
• T-shaped and able to operate across the product stack, including development involvement.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing test solutions and automation to support these.
• Applying test approaches and risk-based testing methodologies.
• Upskilling the engineering team to increase QA capability.
• Implementing test design techniques and strong test analysis.
• Ensure testing collateral quality and test data management.
• Collaborate across CI/CD lifecycle and test automation.

Skills

CI/CD

Software Testing

Gitlab

Java/Spring

Communication

Team engagement

Coaching

Adaptability

Stakeholder Management

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Open API

OWASP Zap

Gatling

Playwright

Cucumber/Gherkin

Selenium

Job description

Role Title: Quality Engineer

Duration: 6 month initial contract

Location: Telford. Hybrid, 2 days per week onsite

Rate: up to £460 p/d Umbrella inside IR35

Role purpose / summary

Quality Engineers are the custodians of quality within the scrum team, who implement the COTAX 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:

• 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 Copilot
• Wiremock
• Wave
• Axe
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Micro-services
• AWS
• Open API
• WCAG
• Cucumber/Gherkin
• Selenium
• Agile Scrum
• Agile Practices