IT & Software

QA Engineer

Methods Consulting

Remote · Nationwide · United Kingdom

Overview

In this QA Engineer role, you ensure high-quality testing across complex, citizen-facing systems within an Agile, CI/CD environment. You will collaborate with developers, DevOps, and product teams to assess impacts on end users and drive efficient test automation and performance testing. The role blends functional, non-functional, security, and operational testing to support mission-driven public services. You’ll contribute to a culture that values innovation, user-centric solutions, and measurable quality impact.

Pay / Benefits
  • remote role with limited travel
  • autonomy to develop skills
  • LinkedIn Learning access
  • Wellness support
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Pension Salary Exchange
Responsibilities
  • Perform functional and non-functional testing (performance, accessibility, security, operational/user acceptance) within an Agile team
  • Develop and maintain test automation scripts and promote testing best practices
  • Create and maintain performance/load/stress tests using standard/open-source tools
  • Resolve blockers to keep testing progress moving
  • Collaborate with geographically distributed cross-functional teams
  • Manage defects from triage to resolution
  • Advocate solid testing practices across delivery stakeholders and drive adoption
Key requirements
  • Experience with TDD/BDD strategies ensuring test coverage aligned with project/test strategy
  • Strong Java coding experience and automated test frameworks (Serenity, RestAssured)
  • Experience with API testing tools (Postman)
  • Experience integrating testing into Secure-SDLC and CI/CD tooling (GitHub, Jenkins, GitLab SaaS, Artifactory, Nexus)
  • Experience testing citizen-facing services
  • Experience testing cloud-native, microservice architectures with containerisation and related tools
  • Experience with Test Management tools (Jira/Confluence, ALM)
  • Awareness of ALM and ITSM tools (Splunk, Grafana, ServiceNow)
  • Collaborative communication
  • Proactive problem-solving
  • Ability to work with distributed teams
  • Java
  • Serenity
  • RestAssured

Reference: WJ-747_30345566

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