Job Description:

Quality Engineer

Location: Telford (2 days per week onsite)
Duration: 6 Months
Inside IR35: Rate £425.00 - £460.00 pd
Clearance: BPSS Required

The Opportunity

We're looking for a passionate Quality Engineer to join a major digital transformation programme, helping teams deliver high-quality software through modern testing and automation practices.

Working within Agile Scrum teams, you'll be responsible for driving quality throughout the software development lifecycle, championing automation, supporting continuous improvement, and ensuring testing is embedded as a shared team responsibility.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated testing solutions.
• Implement testing strategies aligned with modern Quality Engineering practices.
• Promote a quality-first culture across development teams.
• Support the implementation of Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD).
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks.
• Apply risk-based testing approaches to maximise test coverage and reduce delivery risk.
• Create and manage test data and testing environments.
• Support functional, integration, system, performance, accessibility, and security testing activities.
• Analyse business requirements and technical designs to define effective testing solutions.
• Coach and mentor team members to build testing capability across the wider engineering team.
• Work closely with developers through collaborative engineering practices, including pair programming.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong experience in Software Testing and Quality Engineering.
• Experience working within CI/CD environments.
• Knowledge of Java and Spring.
• Experience with GitLab and Git-based workflows.
• Strong understanding of test automation frameworks and methodologies.
• Experience applying risk-based testing techniques.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven coaching and team collaboration experience.
• Adaptable, quality-driven, and comfortable working in Agile environments.

Desirable Skills

• JUnit
• Playwright
• Gatling
• OWASP ZAP
• SonarQube
• GitHub Copilot
• WireMock
• Axe / Wave
• Selenium
• Cucumber / Gherkin
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Microservices
• AWS
• OpenAPI
• WCAG Accessibility Standards
• Agile Scrum practices

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