Quality Engineer

Quality Engineer

Location: Telford/ hybrid - 2 days per week onsite
Duration: 6 months
Rate: Up to -500 inside ir35
Clearance: BPSS required

We are looking for an experienced Quality Engineer to join a modernisation programme, working as part of a Scrum team to drive quality throughout the full software development lifecycle.

This is a hands-on role with a strong focus on test automation, CI/CD and shift-left quality, helping engineering teams build quality into applications from the outset rather than relying solely on testing at the end of development.

You will work across the product stack, designing and implementing automated test solutions, improving test coverage and coaching engineers on quality engineering best practice.

• Design and implement automated test solutions and frameworks.
• Embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Develop automated testing approaches aligned with TDD and BDD.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and automated quality gates.
• Apply risk-based testing and effective test design techniques.
• Analyse business requirements, processes and technical architectures to develop appropriate testing strategies.
• Ensure applications are designed with automation and testability in mind.
• Support manual testing where automation is not appropriate.
• Work closely with developers through collaboration and pair-programming.
• Coach and upskill engineering teams, promoting quality as a shared responsibility.
• Manage test data and testing collateral.
• Contribute across unit, system, functional and integration testing.
• Support non-functional testing, including performance, accessibility and security.
• Communicate testing risks, progress and outcomes to technical and business stakeholders.

• Strong commercial experience as a Quality Engineer, Test Engineer, Automation Engineer or similar.
• Strong software testing and automation experience.
• CI/CD experience.
• Strong knowledge of Git; GitLab experience highly desirable.
• Commercial experience with Java and Spring.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks and tools.
• Understanding of TDD and/or BDD.
• Strong test analysis and test design skills.
• Experience with databases and test data management.
• Experience with risk-based testing.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven experience coaching or supporting development teams.
• Agile/Scrum experience.
• Ability to work across multiple areas of a product and adapt to changing priorities.

Experience with any of the following would be advantageous:

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

This is an excellent opportunity for a Quality Engineer with strong Java and automation experience to work on a major modernisation programme, helping shape quality engineering practices and drive greater automation across the development lifecycle.

If you''re passionate about automation, continuous improvement and embedding quality into software development from day one, we''d be keen to hear from you.

Apply now for immediate consideration.