Software Quality Engineer - (Public Sector)

At Xtremax, we believe quality engineering is more than just testing — it’s about building confidence, reliability, and great digital experiences at scale. As a Software Quality Engineer, you will work alongside product managers, software engineers, and DevSecOps teams to deliver secure, high-quality digital products. You will be part of agile, DevOps-driven teams where automation, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence are core to the way we build software. This role offers the opportunity to work on meaningful public sector systems while growing your expertise in test automation, CI/CD practices, performance testing, and modern software delivery.

Responsibilities • Collaborate with Product Owners and Business Analysts to define clear and actionable user story acceptance criteria • Work with Software Engineers to ensure automated test coverage and prevent bugs and defects in production • Analyse and decompose complex software systems to design holistic, risk-based test strategies • Develop and maintain test automation frameworks using industry-standard tools • Design and execute functional, regression, exploratory, and performance test suites • Maintain regression test suites integrated into QA nightly builds and CI/CD pipelines • Lead system integration testing and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities • Manage defect lifecycle, test artefacts, and test repositories to ensure proper tracking and reporting • Drive continuous improvement in agile testing practices, tools, and methodologies

• Support application performance engineering and application security testing initiatives where required