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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