Quality Engineer

Role: Quality EngineerLocation: South WalesSalary: NegotiableBenefits: 9 day fortnight (half day on the Friday you do work) Are you passionate about building quality in from day one? We''re looking for a Quality Engineer to establish and lead our test strategy as part of a new agile development team. This is a greenfield opportunity to design and implement an automation framework, embedding testing into our CI/CD pipelines and shaping what quality means for our digital services. You''ll work closely with developers and product colleagues to ensure reliability, security, and performance across our API-driven systems. What you''ll doDefine and own the end-to-end testing approach.Build and maintain automated test frameworks (APIs, microservices).Integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines.Carry out exploratory and manual testing where needed.Collaborate on requirements and acceptance criteria.Champion a "shift-left" culture where quality is built in from the start.Track defects and provide visibility through key quality metrics. What we''re looking forStrong experience in QA/Test Engineering within agile teams.Hands-on experience creating automation frameworks from scratch.Skilled in automated API testing and a programming language (ideally C#).Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or similar).Solid grasp of the full software development lifecycle and testing methodologies. Nice to haveExperience with event-driven or distributed systems.Exposure to non-functional testing ..... full job details .....