Quality Engineer

Role: Quality Engineer

Location: South Wales

Salary: Negotiable

Benefits: 9 day fortnight (half day on the Friday you do work)

Are you passionate about building quality in from day one? We're looking for a Quality Engineer to establish and lead our test strategy as part of a new agile development team.

This is a greenfield opportunity to design and implement an automation framework, embedding testing into our CI/CD pipelines and shaping what quality means for our digital services. You'll work closely with developers and product colleagues to ensure reliability, security, and performance across our API-driven systems.

What you'll do

• Define and own the end-to-end testing approach.
• Build and maintain automated test frameworks (APIs, microservices).
• Integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Carry out exploratory and manual testing where needed.
• Collaborate on requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Champion a "shift-left" culture where quality is built in from the start.
• Track defects and provide visibility through key quality metrics.

What we're looking for

• Strong experience in QA/Test Engineering within agile teams.
• Hands-on experience creating automation frameworks from scratch.
• Skilled in automated API testing and a programming language (ideally C#).
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or similar).
• Solid grasp of the full software development lifecycle and testing methodologies.

Nice to have

• Experience with event-driven or distributed systems.
• Exposure to non-functional testing (performance, load, security).
• Familiarity with BDD tools and practices.
• Cloud experience (Azure or similar).
• Relevant certifications (e.g. ISTQB).

Think this one's for you

If you think this Quality Engineer opportunity is for you then please apply online.

Yolk Public Sector & Not-for-Profit team works with organisations across the UK to fulfil their recruitment needs and to achieve their D&I objectives. We recruit temporary, contract and permanent hires for 1 off specialist needs or for volume campaigns. We support our applicants to navigate the public sector recruitment processes and secure their dream jobs.

Yolk Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and embraces diversity in our workforce. We employ the best people for the job at hand and actively encourage applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, age, race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, educational background, parental status, gender identity or any other protected characteristic. We champion and celebrate diversity at Yolk allowing our team to bring their whole selves to work.