Software Test Engineer — Automation & CI/CD (SC Required)

Gold Group; Stafford; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Gold Group is seeking a Software Test Engineer in Rugeley, Staffordshire for a 12‑month contract. The role is hands-on, requiring code-level testing as well as system testing, with responsibility for unit, integration and regression testing across Windows and Linux environments.

You will strengthen automated testing, maintain CI pipelines and ensure traceable test evidence from requirements through to results.

Qualifications

• Must have unit testing and test-driven development experience.
• Proficient in designing test cases from requirements and maintaining traceability.
• Experience with defect management and defect closure verification.
• Hands-on testing across Windows and Linux environments.
• Experience coaching developers on effective unit testing and testing strategy.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, review and maintain unit tests for new and legacy software.
• Develop and maintain automated integration and regression test suites across Windows and Linux.
• Derive test cases from requirements and maintain requirements-to-test traceability.
• Manage test workflows and artefacts within Jira and Confluence.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, including Bitbucket Pipelines, Bamboo or Jenkins.
• Investigate, reproduce and document software defects, working closely with developers through to resolution.
• Produce test plans, specifications, reports and evidence packs for internal and customer review.
• Monitor code coverage, test pass rates and defect trends, identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Support code reviews from a testing and quality perspective.
• Coach developers on effective unit testing and contribute to improvements in testing strategy, tooling and processes.
• Work in accordance with configuration management, information security and quality procedures.

Skills

Unit testing

Test-driven development

Designing test cases

Defect management

Coaching developers on testing

CI/CD knowledge

Windows and Linux

Tools

Google Test

Catch2

CppUnit

NUnit

MSTest

pytest

gcov/lcov

OpenCover

SonarQube

Jira

Confluence

Bitbucket Pipelines

Bamboo

Job description

Gold Group is seeking a Software Test Engineer in Rugeley, Staffordshire for a 12‑month contract. The role is hands-on, requiring code-level testing as well as system testing, with responsibility for unit, integration and regression testing across Windows and Linux environments.

You will strengthen automated testing, maintain CI pipelines and ensure traceable test evidence from requirements through to results.