QA Engineer

1-year contract, renewable
Government project
Hybrid work arrangement
Your Responsibilities Will Include
Owning the end-to-end test strategy (functional + non-functional) for our products; defining quality gates and release criteria
Build and maintain test cases, test plans and automated test framework ensuring that they are up to date with requirements and policy changes
Integrate tests into GitLab CI/CD with fast feedback, parallelisation, flaky-test detection and actionable reports
Drive shift-left quality with developers, product managers and UX: pair on testability, code reviews for test coverage and test-first acceptance criteria
Establish test data and environments hygiene: seeding, masking, mocking
Run defect triage
Define and track quality metrics (failure rate, MTTR, e2e stability, escaped defects) to guide continuous improvement
Independently manage dependencies related to test environments
Partner with team leads to define the long-term Q...