Software Quality Engineer - Automation (Public Sector)
Summary
Designs and executes automated testing strategies for government software projects, integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines and driving quality improvements with modern web technologies.
- 1-year contract, renewable
- Hybrid work arrangement
- Government project
Responsibility
- Own the end-to-end test strategy (functional and non-functional) for our products, defining quality gates and release criteria
- Build and maintain test cases, test plans, and automated test frameworks, ensuring they stay up to date with requirements and policy changes
- Integrate tests into GitLab CI/CD with fast feedback, parallelisation, flaky-test detection, and actionable reporting
- Drive shift-left quality practices with developers, product managers, and UX designers — pairing on testability, reviewing code for test coverage, and shaping test-first acceptance criteria
- Establish good test data and environment hygiene, including seeding, masking, and mocking
- Run defect triage
- Define and track quality metrics (failure rate, MTTR, end-to-end stability, escaped defects) to guide continuous improvement
- Independently manage dependencies related to test environments
- Partner with team leads to define the long-term quality roadmap
- Assist in resolving production issues
What We Are Looking For
- At least 5 years of professional software quality testing experience with hands-on automation
- Strong understanding of testing techniques and risk analysis
- Strong understanding of test automation, continuous integration, and continuous delivery
- Proficiency in programming languages such as JavaScript and TypeScript
- Strong understanding of modern full-stack web application technologies; familiarity with React and backend frameworks is a plus
- Experience with open-source automated testing frameworks such as Playwright, Cucumber, and Jest/Mocha
- Experience with open-source performance testing tools such as JMeter, Gatling, or Locust is a plus
- Experience with basic security scanning and collaboration with AppSec teams
- Experience working in SCRUM teams
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
- Proactive, self-driven, and highly motivated