Quality Engineer

LA International; United States; Hybrid; USD 98,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

LA International is seeking a Quality Engineer for a 6 Month contract with extensions. The role is hybrid with a maximum of 2 onsite days per week in Telford. Rate is £400-£450 per day via Umbrella.

You will drive quality across all testing levels, promote automation, and support both automated and manual testing efforts in a CI/CD environment.

Qualifications

• Ensures quality is a shared responsibility across all test levels.
• Supports the team to follow best practice and maintain standards.
• Maintains appropriate test coverage throughout the lifecycle.
• Promotes automation to shift left QA and reduce feature risk.
• Ensures applications are designed for automation testing.
• Supports manual testing when automation is exhausted.
• Designs and implements test solutions and automation from scratch.
• Applies structured testing and TDD/BDD approaches.
• Brings CI/CD testing experience and automation frameworks knowledge.
• Applies risk-based testing methodologies and data management.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement test solutions and automation from scratch.
• Apply structured testing and automation aligned with TDD/BDD.
• Leverage CI/CD lifecycle experience and automation frameworks.
• Use risk-based testing methodologies in delivery.
• Upskill the engineering team to raise QA capability.
• Implement test design techniques and strong test analysis.
• Know databases and test data creation and management.
• Maintain quality of testing collateral and artefacts.
• Cover unit, system, functional, integration, plus NFR testing.

Skills

CI/CD

Software Testing

Gitlab

Communication

Team engagement

Coaching

Quality driven

Adaptable

Stakeholder management

Data migration

Tools

Junit

Playwright

Gatling

OWASP Zap

SonarQube

GitHub Copilot

Wiremock

Java

Kubernetes

Docker

Micro-services

AWS

Open API

WCAG

Cucumber/Gherkin

Selenium

Agile Scrum

Agile Practices

Job description

Quality Engineer

6 Month contract initially + Extensions

Based: Hybrid - Max 2 days p/w onsite in Telford

Rate: £400 - £450 p/d - (via Umbrella company)

We have a great opportunity with a world leading organisation where you will be provided with all of the support and development to succeed. A progressive organisation where you can really make a difference. We have a great opportunity for a Quality Engineer to join the team.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

The Quality Engineer will be working in a waterfall delivery area with a team made up of Delivery Leads, Software Architects, Data Engineers and testers.

Key Skills/knowledge/experience:

Required Skills (Intermediate):

• CI/CD
• Software Testing
• Gitlab (understanding of Git at least is essential)
• Proven communication skills
• Proven team engagement skills
• Proven coaching skills
• Quality Driven
• Adaptable/ability to context switch
• Stakeholder Management
• Data Migration experience

Optional Skills:

• Junit
• Playwright
• Gatling
• OWASP Zap
• SonarQube
• GitHub Copilot
• Wiremock
• Java
• Wave
• Axe
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Micro-services
• AWS
• Open API
• WCAG
• Cucumber/Gherkin
• Selenium
• Agile Scrum
• Agile Practices

This is an excellent opportunity on a great project of work.

LA International is an award-winning partner of choice for many of the world's most influential companies and government organisations. Holding Enhanced Government Security Accreditation, we are recognised as the European market leader in the delivery of Security Cleared talent to organisations that demand the very highest levels of security, compliance and assurance.

A multiple award-winning organisation, having secured the prestigious Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade over consecutive years. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of background or identity, and we encourage candidates who may not meet every listed requirement to still apply. If you require any adjustments or support during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure a fair and accessible experience.

Please Note: If a high volume of applications is received, only candidates shortlisted will be contacted.