Details:
- Salary: £350 - 380 - Day
- Job Type: Contract
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Day
- Location: Nationwide
- Date: 1 day ago
Description:
Job Title: QA Engineer
Role Type: Contract
Length: 6 Months initial (potential long-term)
Location: Primarily remote working with some travel to UK wide sites
Rate: To £380 Per Day - Inside IR35 via Umbrella
Security Clearance: Role will require BPSS screening (candidates must be UK residents with full right to work without restrictions)
Our government client is looking for an experienced, UK based QA Engineer who has operated in a AWS environment, to build robust automated testing solutions for cloud-native applications and Microservices.
You'll work closely with development teams to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle and support reliable, secure releases.
Key Responsibilities:
Design, develop and maintain automated test frameworks and suites
Auto testing, Selenium, Cucumber, Microservices
Create functional, regression, integration, API and end-to-end tests
Test AWS-hosted, cloud-native applications and distributed Microservices
Embed quality across the SDLC, CI/CD pipelines and shift-left practices
Analyse results, manage defects and support root cause analysis
Help ensure solutions meet functional, performance, security and other non-functional requirementsEssential Skills & Experience:
Strong QA and test automation experience using Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Java and BDD
Auto testing
AWS Infrastructure knowledge and experience working in AWS environments and Agile delivery teams
Hands-on experience testing RESTful APIs and Microservices
Good knowledge of automated testing frameworks and CI/CD integration
Strong troubleshooting and defect management skills
Experience with performance testing, Docker, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, security or accessibility testing, and GDS-aligned delivery
AWS certification
Experience delivering Government or Public Sector programmes
Able to innovate - think on their feet - a self starter
If your profile demonstrates strong and recent experience in the above areas - please submit your application to Jackie Dean at TXP for consideration