Quality Engineer

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Strong experience as a Quality Engineer, Automation Tester, or SDET
• Proven experience building automation frameworks using Playwright
• Strong Java development and testing experience
• Experience using JUnit for automated testing
• Good understanding of CI/CD principles and tooling
• Experience with Git/GitLab version control
• Strong knowledge of Agile and Scrum delivery environments
• Experience testing APIs, microservices, and distributed systems
• Knowledge of functional, integration, and non-functional testing
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and team collaboration skills
• Nice to have: Cucumber/Gherkin
• Nice to have: Gatling performance testing
• Nice to have: OWASP ZAP security testing
• Nice to have: SonarQube
• Nice to have: GitHub Copilot
• Nice to have: WireMock
• Nice to have: Accessibility testing tools such as Axe or Wave
• Nice to have: Kubernetes and Docker
• Nice to have: AWS
• Nice to have: OpenAPI specifications

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop automated test frameworks and solutions from scratch
• Build and maintain UI and API automation suites using Playwright and Java
• Develop automated tests aligned to TDD and BDD practices using JUnit and Cucumber
• Embed quality engineering practices across the Scrum team
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines
• Deliver functional, integration, and non-functional testing activities
• Apply risk-based testing methodologies and effective test design techniques
• Create and manage test data to support automation activities
• Support accessibility, security, and performance testing initiatives
• Analyse business requirements, technical designs, and architectures to define test approaches
• Coach and mentor engineers to improve quality engineering capability across the team
• Support manual testing where automation is not appropriate

Technologies:

• API
• AWS
• CI/CD
• Copilot
• Cucumber
• Docker
• Git
• GitHub
• GitLab
• Support
• JUnit
• Java
• Kubernetes
• OWASP
• OpenAPI
• Playwright
• Security
• TDD
• microservices
• UX UI Design
• Cloud

More:

We are seeking a Quality Engineer to join our Agile delivery team and help embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle. This is a hybrid role based in Telford, with 2 days in the office and 3 days working from home. The role offers up to £500 per day inside IR35. You will work in a modern CI/CD environment, contributing to software quality through automation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

last updated 31 week of 2026