Quality Engineering / QA

Key Responsibilities: Build and support quality engineering practices for citizen- and officer-facing digital products. Define and implement test strategies based on product, technical, integration, and operational risks. Design and execute functional, integration, API, and end-to-end testing across applications and services. Develop and maintain automated test suites to improve test coverage, reliability, and release confidence. Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous validation throughout the software development lifecycle. Perform API testing and validation to ensure service functionality, data integrity, security, and reliability. Test distributed systems and integrations across government agencies, platforms, and external partners. Validate secure data ingestion and ETL pipelines, including data quality, accuracy, completeness, and failure handling. Identify edge cases, failure scenarios, and potential production risks through systematic testing and validation. Conduct performance, reliability, scalability, and security-conscious testing where appropriate. Investigate defects, perform root-cause analysis, and work closely with developers to identify and resolve quality issues. Collaborate with developers and engineering teams to improve application testability and prevent defects earlier in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Contribute to the modernisation and enhancement of existing Java-based and platform applications by ensuring quality and maintainability throughout the delivery lifecycle. Support testing and validation of cloud-based applications, infrastructure, deployment processes, and system integrations. Establish quality gates, validation practices, and release-readiness criteria across development and deployment pipelines. Use test results, quality metrics, defect trends, and other evidence to provide recommendations on product quality and release readiness. Promote engineering practices that improve code quality, testability, maintainability, and overall system reliability. Develop reusable quality engineering capabilities, frameworks, and practices that can be adopted across multiple teams within the organisation. Relevant Technical Experience: Quality Engineering / Software QA Test strategy and risk-based testing Functional, integration, API, and end-to-end testing Test automation and automated test frameworks CI/CD test integration and continuous testing API testing and validation Testing distributed systems and system integrations Data validation, data quality, ETL, and data pipeline testing Performance, reliability, scalability, and security testing Defect investigation and root-cause analysis Testability and quality improvement across the SDLC Quality metrics, test reporting, and release-readiness assessment Cloud and modern application testing Agile / DevOps / continuous delivery environments