Quality Engineer

Quality Engineer

Location: Telford / Hybrid - 2 days per week onsite
Rate: £430 per day inside IR35
Contract: 6 months
Clearance: BPSS eligible

We are looking for an experienced Quality Engineer to join a major public sector modernisation programme.

The successful candidate will be a key member of the Scrum team, taking ownership of quality across the development lifecycle and helping to embed a Quality Engineering and shift-left approach.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement automated test solutions and frameworks, often from scratch.
• Apply structured testing approaches aligned with TDD/BDD.
• Develop and maintain automated testing throughout the CI/CD lifecycle.
• Apply risk-based testing and effective test design techniques.
• Ensure applications are built with automation and testability in mind.
• Test across Unit, System, Functional and Integration levels.
• Support NFR testing including performance, accessibility and security.
• Work with databases and test data creation/management.
• Analyse complex business requirements, processes and technical architectures to develop effective test solutions.
• Coach and upskill developers and wider engineering teams on quality practices.
• Work collaboratively with developers, including through pair programming.
• Support manual testing where automation is not appropriate.
• Ensure testing collateral is maintained to a high standard.
• Engage with stakeholders and contribute to a strong quality-focused culture.

Essential Skills

• Strong experience as a Quality Engineer, Automation Test Engineer or SDET.
• Strong software testing and automation experience.
• CI/CD experience.
• Git / GitLab.
• Java / Spring.
• TDD / BDD understanding.
• Strong test analysis, test design and risk-based testing skills.
• Experience across multiple test levels.
• Database and test data experience.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working within Agile/Scrum teams.
• Proven coaching and team engagement skills.
• Ability to adapt and context switch across different priorities.

Desirable

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

If this role is of interest apply now or email your CV to me at (url removed)