Job Description

Hays are now looking for a Quality Engineer for one of our local clients:

• Up to 500 p/d Inside IR35
• Hybrid, 2 days in the office, 3 days WFH
• Location is Telford

We're looking for a Quality Engineer to join an Agile delivery team, helping to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle. You'll play a key role in designing and implementing automated testing solutions using Java, JUnit and Playwright, ensuring quality is built into every stage of delivery within a modern CI/CD environment.

What you'll be doing

• Designing and developing automated test frameworks and solutions from scratch
• Building and maintaining UI and API automation suites using Playwright and Java
• Developing automated tests aligned with TDD and BDD practices using JUnit and Cucumber
• Embedding quality engineering practices across the Scrum team
• Integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines
• Delivering functional, integration and non-functional testing activities
• Applying risk-based testing methodologies and effective test design techniques
• Creating and managing test data to support automation activities
• Supporting accessibility, security and performance testing initiatives
• Analysing business requirements, technical designs and architectures to define test approaches
• Coaching and mentoring engineers to improve quality engineering capability across the team
• Supporting manual testing where automation is not appropriate

What we're looking for

• 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
• Gatling performance testing
• OWASP ZAP security testing
• SonarQube
• GitHub Copilot
• WireMock
• Accessibility testing tools such as Axe or Wave
• Kubernetes and Docker
• AWS
• OpenAPI specifications

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