Quality Engineer - Java | Automation | CI/CD

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Software Testing / Quality Engineering experience
• CI/CD experience
• Git / GitLab experience
• Java / Spring experience
• Automation testing experience
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Team coaching / engagement experience
• Experience working in Agile / Scrum environments
• A genuine quality-first engineering mindset
• Highly desirable: JUnit
• Highly desirable: Playwright / Selenium
• Highly desirable: Cucumber / Gherkin
• Highly desirable: Gatling
• Highly desirable: WireMock
• Highly desirable: SonarQube
• Highly desirable: OWASP ZAP
• Highly desirable: Docker / Kubernetes
• Highly desirable: Microservices
• Highly desirable: AWS
• Highly desirable: OpenAPI
• Highly desirable: Accessibility / WCAG / Axe
• Highly desirable: GitHub Copilot

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement test solutions and automation frameworks, often from the ground up
• Drive a shift-left Quality Engineering approach across the Scrum team
• Build automated testing into the CI/CD lifecycle and shorten feedback loops
• Apply TDD/BDD, risk-based testing and modern test design techniques
• Work across Unit, System, Functional, Integration and NFR testing
• Analyse complex business requirements, processes and technical architectures to shape the testing approach
• Work with test data and databases, ensuring appropriate test coverage and data management
• Help ensure applications are designed to be testable through automation
• Pair with developers and contribute across the wider product stack
• Coach and upskill engineers, embedding quality as a whole-team responsibility
• Support manual testing where automation isnt appropriate
• Produce and maintain high-quality testing collateral
• Work closely with technical and business stakeholders throughout the delivery lifecycle

Technologies:

• AWS
• CI/CD
• Cucumber
• Docker
• Git
• GitHub
• GitLab
• Support
• JUnit
• Java
• Kubernetes
• OWASP
• OpenAPI
• Playwright
• Selenium
• Spring
• TDD
• microservices
• Cloud
• Copilot

More:

We are offering a Quality Engineer role on a major transformation programme in a hybrid Telford setup, with two days per week on site. This is a six-month rolling contract at £430 per day. The role sits within a Scrum environment where quality is built into the product from day one, with a strong focus on automation, CI/CD, shift-left testing and helping development teams take ownership of quality across the entire lifecycle. Candidates are required to go through BPSS clearance for the role.

last updated 38 week of 2026