Quality Engineer - Ministry of Justice - SEO

East Midlands (England), East of England, London (region), North East England, North West England, Scotland, South East England, South West England, Wales, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the Humber

Key Responsibilities: 

• Work with others to develop risk-based test strategies, test approaches and test plans that achieve functional and non-functional quality outcomes. 
• Choose and apply different types of tests and techniques to mitigate risks as early as possible, including using automation to assist with testing. 
• Design, develop, execute and maintain new and existing test suites including exploratory testing to simultaneously design and execute tests. 
• Collaborate with team members to provide clear, fast, frequent feedback about quality observations, issues, defects and any related trends, using the most appropriate style and channel of communication. 
• Work with others to satisfactorily resolve issues. 
• Create and maintain automated tests using existing automation frameworks, and with some support, extend test automation frameworks and tooling to improve the reliability and efficiency of test activities. 
• Contribute to the maintenance of CI/CD pipelines, ensuring automated tests run effectively within development workflows and troubleshooting faults with other engineers to resolve issues. 
• Follow engineering best practices, including source control, SOLID principles, and object-oriented programming. 
• Contribute to measuring what matters using the most appropriate metrics
  
  
• Keep up to date with emerging testing methodologies, technologies, and tools, ensuring teams benefit from the latest industry practices. 

If this feels like an exciting opportunity that you are enthusiastic about and want to join our warm and collaborative team, please read on and apply! 

Person Specification  

Essential 

• Ability to follow and contribute to test strategies, ensuring they align with business goals. 
• Experience in test planning, design and execution, covering functional and non-functional testing. 
• Understanding of risk-based testing methodologies and how to apply them effectively. 
• Basic knowledge of test automation and CI/CD pipelines, with the ability to create and maintain automated test scripts. 
• Experience with defect management, risk assessment, and test reporting in an Agile context. 
• Ability to clearly communicate with cross-functional teams. 
• Some experience with testing tools and automation frameworks, such as Playwright, Postman, Pact, Browserstack, Circle CI. 
• Experience working in Agile development environments, understanding the role of holistic testing within iterative workflows.
  
  
• Work with support in Cloud based test environments for example AWS and Kubernetes. 

Willingness to be assessed against  the requirements for SC clearance. 

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