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Quality Engineer - Java | Automation | CI/CD

Job type:Contract
Town/City:Telford
County:Shropshire
Salary/Rate:Up to £430 per day + inside ir35
Business Sector:IT
Job ref:CDI - 154966
Post Date:September 21, 2026

Quality Engineer - Java / Automation / CI/CD

£430 per day

6 months rolling
Hybrid/Telford (2 days er week on site)

Candidates are required to go through BPSS clearance or the role.

I'm looking for a Quality Engineer to join a major transformation programme, working within a Scrum environment where quality isn't simply something tested at the end - it's built into the product from day one. This is a genuinely engineering-led QA role, with a strong focus on automation, CI/CD, shift-left testing and helping development teams take ownership of quality across the entire lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement test solutions and automation frameworks, often from the ground up
  • Drive a shift-left Quality Engineering approach across the Scrum team
  • Build automated testing into the CI/CD lifecycle and shorten feedback loops
  • Apply TDD/BDD, risk-based testing and modern test design techniques
  • Work across Unit, System, Functional, Integration and NFR testing
  • Analyse complex business requirements, processes and technical architectures to shape the testing approach
  • Work with test data and databases, ensuring appropriate test coverage and data management
  • Help ensure applications are designed to be testable through automation
  • Pair with developers and contribute across the wider product stack
  • Coach and upskill engineers, embedding quality as a whole-team responsibility
  • Support manual testing where automation isn't appropriate
  • Produce and maintain high-quality testing collateral
  • Work closely with technical and business stakeholders throughout the delivery lifecycle

Required Experience:

Essential

  • Software Testing / Quality Engineering
  • CI/CD
  • Git / GitLab
  • Java / Spring
  • Automation testing
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management
  • Team coaching / engagement
  • Agile / Scrum environments
  • A genuine quality-first engineering mindset

Highly desirable

  • JUnit
  • Playwright / Selenium
  • Cucumber / Gherkin
  • Gatling
  • WireMock
  • SonarQube
  • OWASP ZAP
  • Docker / Kubernetes
  • Microservices
  • AWS
  • OpenAPI
  • Accessibility / WCAG / Axe
  • GitHub Copilot

If you're a Quality Engineer, Automation Engineer, SDET or technically strong QA Engineer with Java and CI/CD experience, I'd be keen to speak with you.