QA Engineer

Salary: £70,000 - 110,000 per year

Requirements:

• Familiarity with Agile practices and tools, and ability to work in a fast-paced CI/CD environment.
• Experience devising TDD/BDD or Acceptance Test Driven Development strategies using a range of tools and frameworks, with test coverage and execution aligned to project, programme or portfolio test strategies and business risk objectives.
• Strong Java coding experience and knowledge of automated test frameworks such as Serenity and RestAssured.
• Strong experience using API testing tools, ideally Postman.
• Experience integrating testing into Secure SDLC and CI/CD tooling in a DevSecOps environment, using tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, GitLab SaaS, Artifactory or Nexus.
• Experience testing citizen-facing services.
• Experience testing highly scalable, distributed, cloud-native (PaaS/FaaS) and microservice-oriented applications, including technologies such as containerisation, orchestration, service mesh, messaging, proxies, APIs, and persistent and ephemeral storage.
• Experience using formal test management tools such as Jira/Confluence or ALM.
• Good awareness of Application Lifecycle Management and IT Service Management, using tools such as Splunk, Grafana and ServiceNow.
• This role requires candidates to have or be willing to undergo Security Clearance and complete Baseline Personnel Security Standard checks as part of onboarding.
• Desirable: Experience with JavaScript automation frameworks such as WebdriverIO or Playwright.
• Desirable: Experience running stress or load testing using K6 and Grafana or similar open-source tools.
• Desirable: Knowledge of Microsoft Azure Portal.
• Desirable: ISEB Certification in Software Testing.
• Desirable: Experience with data migration projects.
• Desirable: Experience working in the Public Sector.

Responsibilities:

• Perform functional and non-functional testing, including performance, accessibility, security, operational and user acceptance testing, within an Agile team.
• Develop and maintain test automation solutions and scripts, promoting best practices within the development team.
• Develop and maintain performance, load and stress testing solutions using standard or open-source tools.
• Resolve problems and blockers and help maintain progress with testing.
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with geographically distributed, cross-functional teams.
• Manage defects, ensuring they are triaged and tracked through to resolution.
• Promote effective testing practices to delivery stakeholders and encourage adoption of best practices.
• Work closely with developers, DevOps engineers and business stakeholders to understand softwares impact on end users and provide accurate updates on testing progress and outcomes.
• Proactively identify ways to improve the efficiency of automated tests.

Technologies:

• AI
• API
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Confluence
• DevSecOps
• DevOps
• FaaS
• GitHub
• GitLab
• Grafana
• JIRA
• Java
• JavaScript
• Jenkins
• Nexus
• PaaS
• Playwright
• Postman
• Security
• ServiceNow
• Splunk
• TDD
• Incident Management

More:

We work to improve public services through current technologies and user-centred solutions, supported by an internal culture that encourages staff to express themselves and be innovative. This is a full-time QA Engineer role in our Capabilities, IT – Data & AI department, working at a client site. The role is remote with limited travel to London and involves complex systems in a fast-paced CI/CD environment. We offer autonomy to develop skills and experience, impactful project work, inspiring leadership and a supportive, collaborative environment. Benefits include LinkedIn Learning, management development and training, a confidential 24/7 employee assistance programme, social events and charitable activities, 25 days of annual leave with the option to purchase additional leave, a pension salary exchange scheme with 4% employer and 5% employee contributions, life assurance of four times base salary, and non-contributory private medical and worldwide travel insurance, including spouse and dependants.

last updated 40 week of 2026