Quality Engineer CGEMJP00359139

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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