Quality Engineer - Java | Automation | CI/CD

Quality Engineer - Java / Automation / CI/CD

£430 per day

6 months rolling
Hybrid/Telford (2 days er week on site)

Candidates are required to go through BPSS clearance or the role.

I'm looking for a Quality Engineer to join a major transformation programme, working within a Scrum environment where quality isn't simply something tested at the end - it's built into the product from day one. This is a genuinely engineering-led QA role, with a strong focus on automation, CI/CD, shift-left testing and helping development teams take ownership of quality across the entire lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement test solutions and automation frameworks, often from the ground up
• Drive a shift-left Quality Engineering approach across the Scrum team
• Build automated testing into the CI/CD lifecycle and shorten feedback loops
• Apply TDD/BDD, risk-based testing and modern test design techniques
• Work across Unit, System, Functional, Integration and NFR testing
• Analyse complex business requirements, processes and technical architectures to shape the testing approach
• Work with test data and databases, ensuring appropriate test coverage and data management
• Help ensure applications are designed to be testable through automation
• Pair with developers and contribute across the wider product stack
• Coach and upskill engineers, embedding quality as a whole-team responsibility
• Support manual testing where automation isn't appropriate
• Produce and maintain high-quality testing collateral
• Work closely with technical and business stakeholders throughout the delivery lifecycle

Required Experience:

Essential

• Software Testing / Quality Engineering
• CI/CD
• Git / GitLab
• Java / Spring
• Automation testing
• Strong communication and stakeholder management
• Team coaching / engagement
• Agile / Scrum environments
• A genuine quality-first engineering mindset

Highly desirable

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

If you're a Quality Engineer, Automation Engineer, SDET or technically strong QA Engineer with Java and CI/CD experience, I'd be keen to speak with you.