Role Title: Quality Engineer
Duration: 6 month initial contract
Location: Telford. Hybrid, 2 days per week onsite
Rate: up to £460 p/d Umbrella inside IR35
Role purpose / summary
Quality Engineers are the custodians of quality within the scrum team, who implement the COTAX Modernisation Test Strategy and Project Test Approaches defined by the QA and QA Service Leads.
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 lifecycle
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 lifecycle, 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.
Required Skills:
CI/CD
Software Testing
Gitlab (understanding of Git at least is essential)
Java/Spring
Proven communication skills
Proven team engagement skills
Proven coaching skills
Quality Driven
Adaptable/ability to context switch
Stakeholder Management
Optional Skills:
Junit
Playwright
Gatling
OWASP Zap
SonarQube
GitHub Copilot
Wiremock
Wave
Axe
Kubernetes
Docker
Micro-services
AWS
Open API
WCAG
Cucumber/Gherkin
Selenium
Agile Scrum
Agile Practices
All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!
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