Quality Engineer
We are a Global Recruitment specialist that provides support to the clients across EMEA, APAC, US and Canada. We have an excellent job opportunity for you.
Role Title: Quality Engineer
Location: Telford
Duration: 6 months
Hybrid: Min. 2 days per week onsite
Pay Rate: £402 to 447 per day all inc. (PAYE through Umbrella)
Sector: Public
Description:
- This is a significant multi-year transformation programme aimed at modernising key business services and capabilities.
- The role sits within the data migration workstream and will support the transition of data from existing services into new strategic solutions.
- The work will involve data extraction, transformation, and migration activities, helping to ensure data is accurately prepared and transferred as part of the wider transformation journey.
- These are largely supported by the following technologies:
Presentation Layer:
- Remix React Framework
- JavaScript
- Form generation engine'
- Service Layer:
- Java
- Python
- JSON
- RabbitMQ
Data Layer:
- MongoDB
- Oracle
- SQL
- The CESA Futures data migration team follows waterfall principles.
- Quality Engineers are the custodians of quality within the scrum team, who implement the CESA Futures Test Approach defined by the QA Stream Lead.
- They embody the Quality
Engineering approach:
- 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 life cycle
- 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 life cycle, 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.
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
If you are interested in this position and would like to learn more, please send through your CV and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible. Please note, candidates are often Shortlisted within 48 hours.