About Scrumconnect Scrumconnect is a trusted digital delivery partner to UK government departments and public sector bodies. We specialise in building user-centred digital services that improve lives. Our multidisciplinary teams bring together experienced technologists, designers, researchers, and strategists to solve complex challenges and drive meaningful impact in the public sector. Key Responsibilities 1. Test Planning & Execution Develop, implement, and execute comprehensive test plans for GOV.UK digital services. Identify key testing objectives and ensure coverage of user requirements across different environments. 2. Functional & Non-Functional Testing Conduct functional, regression, integration, and user acceptance testing (UAT). Perform non-functional testing, including performance, security, and usability testing. 3. Automation & Test Framework Development Design and implement test automation frameworks using industry best practices. Develop and maintain automated test scripts using Java, JavaScript, Playwright, RestAssured (BDD), or similar frameworks. Automate API testing using tools such as Postman, RestAssured, or equivalent. Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines for continuous testing and deployment. 4. Defect Management & Reporting Identify, document, and track defects using test management tools (Azure DevOps, JIRA). Work closely with development teams to resolve issues effectively. Produce detailed test reports and communicate findings to stakeholders. 5. Collaboration & Agile Delivery Work in Agile environments (Scrum/Kanban), contributing to sprint planning and retrospectives. Collaborate with developers, product managers, and business analysts to define test strategies. Provide guidance and mentor junior testers in automation best practices. 6. Compliance with GOV.UK & DDAT Standards Follow GOV.UK service design principles and DDAT frameworks for testing government applications. Ensure all tests align with security and compliance regulations.

Permanent

Manchester: £71,700 - £87,400

Hybrid Working - (2-3 days per week in the office)

Introduction

Join AQA at a pivotal moment as you help shape the future of digital assessment at a national scale. This is an opportunity to contribute to the evolution of the systems that underpin GCSEs and A-levels, used every year by learners, teachers and schools across the country. As AQA continues to modernise its technology landscape, you will join a rapidly growing team within Assessment Technology that plays a crucial role in delivering secure, resilient and innovative digital products. You’ll be part of a world-leading education organisation that is committed to delivering better outcomes for learners and making assessment more accessible, efficient and future-ready.

Purpose of the role

As the Head of Software Quality Assurance, you will lead the transformation and management of quality engineering across AQA’s digital products and services. You will manage and develop a team of Test Managers, Test Analysts, Test Automation and quality specialists, working across multiple product areas and delivery teams. Your role is central to ensuring that quality is embedded early in the delivery lifecycle, supporting our shift towards more modern engineering practices and accelerating delivery without compromising the standards expected of mission-critical assessment technology. The work you lead will directly support teachers, schools and learners, ensuring our products are reliable, secure and designed with the user at the heart.

Key responsibilities

In this role, you’ll be responsible for:

* Leading, developing and embedding a scalable, modern quality engineering practice that operates effectively across diverse delivery teams and product portfolios.

* Driving an automation-first culture by championing shift-left practices, continuous testing and modern engineering workflows.

* Partnering closely with Product, Architecture and Delivery Leadership to define and maintain pragmatic, adaptable quality standards aligned to product risk and team maturity.

* Establishing data-driven insights and actionable quality metrics-including automation coverage, defect trends and cycle time-to inform decision-making and continuous improvement.

* Building capability and consistency across internal teams and strategic delivery partners to ensure quality remains a shared responsibility across the lifecycle.

What we are looking for

You’ll thrive in this role if you’re motivated by improving quality outcomes at scale and enjoy building strong, collaborative teams. You’ll also bring:

* Proven experience leading a large QA or quality engineering function across multiple delivery teams.

* A strong understanding of shift-left testing approaches, test automation frameworks, test pyramids and continuous testing methods.

* Experience working within varied agile delivery models, including SAFe, Scrumban or hybrid approaches.

* A track record of developing QA professionals, including coaching Test Managers and building consistent capability.

* Excellent communication, influencing and relationship-building skills, with the ability to translate quality concepts for non-technical stakeholders.

What’s in it for you

Joining AQA means contributing to work with genuine national impact. You’ll play a key part in transforming the systems that support assessment, helping improve the experience of teachers and learners nationwide. You’ll also benefit from:

* 25 days’ annual leave, rising to 30 with service, plus bank holidays and extra closure days at Christmas

* a 35-hour working week with flexible working arrangements

* an excellent contributory pension scheme (6%-11.5% depending on your contribution)

* life assurance, BUPA PMI, and health cash plan

* enhanced maternity and paternity schemes

Diversity and inclusion statement

At AQA, we are committed to fostering a workplace that celebrates diversity and promotes equity and inclusion. We believe that a diverse team brings richer perspectives and drives better outcomes. Our ED&I strategy ensures that everyone-regardless of religion, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, age, disability, sexual orientation, or background-is valued, respected and empowered to thrive. We actively promote inclusive language, avoid stereotypes and strive for representation across all dimensions of diversity. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and lived experiences.

Application process

Please submit your CV and application through our careers site. Closing date for applications is Sunday 29th March. Interviews will take place w/c 6th April (MS Teams) & 13th April (F2F)

#PRO22

Lead QA (Automation) Engineer

Location - Manchester - Hybrid working

Salary 55,000 - 65,000

An industry-leading organisation with offices in Manchester, is looking for two Lead QA Engineers to join the company at an exciting time of transformation and change. Suitable candidates will have the following experience:

Key Skills & Experience

Essential

• Practical experience in both manual and automated testing of modern web or cloud-native systems.
• Proven leadership/management experience of QA Engineers
• Strong understanding of software testing methods: functional, regression, integration, exploratory, and performance testing.
• Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, REST API automation tools).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into deployment workflows.
• Experience testing APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Awareness of secure coding, security testing basics, and data privacy considerations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to work effectively within Agile squads and cross-functional environments.

Additionally, suitable candidates must have excellent communication skills and will want to work in an exciting and rewarding environment.

UK citizens only please.

Please apply for a confidential chat.

We are seeking a proactive Test Engineer - Data to join our Data Finance team. In this role, you will partner with engineers and product managers to enhance the quality, reliability, and trustworthiness of financial data flows and data products. You will not just test for the team, but with the team, coaching engineers to own their quality outcomes.

Location:Manchester(2 Days per week in the office)

Duration: 6 Months

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy & Coaching: Set a strong testing strategy in line with organizational quality standards and coach teams on data testing practices.
• Data Validation: Design and implement effective validation for data pipelines, APIs, and services to ensure data is correct, complete, and timely.
• Observability: Drive observability using monitoring, alerts, and dashboards to validate behavior and data quality in production.
• Compliance: Operationalize requirements from regulated environments (e.g., SOX, GDPR/PII, DMA) into daily test strategies and documentation.
• Automation: Design test approaches covering unit, component, contract, and integration levels, ensuring validation is integrated into CI/CD pipelines.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Data Testing: Proven experience testing data-intensive backend systems, ETL/ELT processes, and financial data feeds.
• SQL Mastery: Strong proficiency in relational databases, ideally Microsoft SQL Server, including writing and optimizing complex SQL for data investigation.
• Technical Ecosystem: Experience with modern engineering tools such as Git, $CI/CD$, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS (or similar cloud platforms).
• Regulatory Knowledge: Experience working in or around regulated environments (SOX, GDPR, DMA) or a strong willingness to learn.
• Communication: Exceptional ability to explain technical testing and data quality concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Problem Solving: Ability to use structured root-cause analysis (e.g., “5 whys”) to debug complex data issues.

Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Join MBDA UK Ltd as a Senior Test Engineer and become an integral part of our Manufacturing team. This role presents an outstanding chance to contribute to the testing of our products. By joining us, you will have the opportunity to play a crucial role in upholding the highest standards of quality and reliability for our products.

Salary: Circa £45,000 dependent on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working: 4-5 days per week on-site due to workload classification

Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.

What we can offer you:

• Company bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
• Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• Overtime: opportunity for paid overtime
• Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
• Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave. Enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments.
• Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more
• Training and Development: Excellent career progression, training and career development opportunities

The opportunity:

This opportunity is for a Test Engineer to join the Manufacturing team supporting test and diagnostics of electrical/electronic sub-systems and circuit cards during all phases of the product lifecycle. You will be providing technical support to the manufacturing test capability, to ensure programme targets are met to agreed time, cost and quality requirements.

• Providing Test Engineering support during Design / Development phases from initial concept through to Production Readiness Review and release to Operations.
• Supporting Test Facility introduction and ensuring that appropriate configuration control of equipment and facilities is in place prior to use, including generating supporting test specifications and operator instructions.
• Supporting testing of electrical/electronic sub-assemblies and circuit cards, with diagnosis of production test failures down to component level.
• Working closely with Operations, the design teams and other stakeholders to overcome any technical challenges.
• Always aiming to deliver in line with all programme and quality requirements, whilst maintaining Test Engineering functional governance and pursuing continuous improvement.

You will be working with a small team of dedicated engineers in a fast-paced but friendly and inclusive manufacturing environment. The team has a great mix of people, ranging from apprentices and graduates through to experienced engineers, all striving to deliver technical excellence across a number of different missile systems in development and production.

What we’re looking for from you:

• Minimum HNC level of qualification or equivalent in a relevant subject (HND/Degree preferred) plus experience in digital and analogue electronics manufacture and test.
• A good understanding of electrical/electronic measurement and test principles and test equipment, as well as fault diagnosis techniques for electronic/electro-mechanical sub-assemblies.
• Experience of using both manual and automated test equipment, preferably in a defence organisation or similar manufacturing environment.
• Familiar with enterprise resource planning and manufacturing execution system programs (e.g. SAP, MES) for recording test activities and generating non-conformance reports and concessions.
• The ability to plan and organise own work in order to ensure multiple tasks can be prioritised and delivered against Project objectives.
• Good verbal and written communication skills, including generation of test specifications, operator instructions and technical reports based on higher-level requirements.
• Proven analytical and problem solving skills, with strong attention to detail.

Our company: Peace is not a given, Freedom is not a given, Sovereignty is not a given

MBDA is a leading defence organisation. We are proud of the role we play in supporting the Armed Forces who protect our nations. We partner with governments to work together towards a common goal, defending our freedom.

We are proud of our employee-led networks, examples include: Gender Equality, Pride, Menopause Matters, Parents and Carers, Armed Forces, Ethnic Diversity, Neurodiversity and more

We recognise that everyone is unique, and we encourage you to speak to us should you require any advice, support or adjustments throughout our recruitment process.

Follow us on LinkedIn (MBDA), X Instagram (MBDA_UK) and Glassdoor or visit our MBDA Careers website for more information.

• Competitive salary
• Global manufacturer offering Long Term Prospects
• Excellent working environment
• 37.5 hours per week & flexitime

On behalf of a global manufacturing company, based in Rochdale, we are recruiting for a Test Engineer who will be responsible for designing, developing and executing test procedures to ensure the quality and functionality of electronic products. This role requires a strong understanding of electronics, testing methodologies and problem solving abilities to ensure products meet performance and regulatory standards.

Key duties include;

• Perform rigorous testing of electronic components and systems including printed circuit board assemblies
• Identify, troubleshoot, and diagnose issues with electronic products
• Record and analysis test data to identify failure and yield trends targeting improvement in right first time metrics
• Develop and implement test strategies and plans for a wide range of electronic products
• Design test setups, equipment and fixtures tailored to the products being tested
• Create and maintain automated and manual test procedures
• Ensure products meet industry standards, regulatory requirements and internal quality assurance guidelines
• Document test results, generate reports and communicate findings with relevant teams
• Collaborate with Engineering and NPI teams to resolve test related issues and improve quality
• Maintain accurate records of test results, equipment calibration and test procedures
• Update and maintain technical documentation including test protocols and specifications
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and contribute to the optimisation of testing methods and tools
• Keep up to date with advancements in testing technologies and methodologies
• Support of Avionics Test and Environmental test activities

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience;

• Continually attain satisfactory compliance with Quality, Safety Security and HSE requirements
• Degree / HNC or equivalent level in Electrical Engineering or related field
• Proven experience in electronic testing including both manual and automated test methods
• Good understanding of electronic components, systems and circuit design
• Continually attain satisfactory compliance with Quality, Safety, Security and HSE requirements
• Knowledge and experience of Testing and Diagnosing both AC and DC power products is preferred
• Good understanding of drawings and schematics
• Familiarity with testing equipment such as oscilloscopes, signal generators, multimeters and spectrum analysers
• Experience with testing software, data analysis tools and scripting languages (eg Python, LabVIEW)
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills

In return for the above our client can offer a highly competitive salary, flexitime working hours, an excellent working environment along with long term and varied work.

For a more information and a more detailed job description please send your CV in confidence to Chris Chambury at The Recruitment Fix.

Field based

Up to 40k

Key Responsibilities

• Perform and document all testing activities for control and protection equipment.
• Conduct wire checking and scheme verification of control and protection panels.
• Identify and resolve design issues, providing immediate practical solutions where required.
• Test protection relays and associated equipment.
• Lead and manage Factory Acceptance Tests (FATs).
• Ensure panels are fully tested, compliant, and ready for site dispatch.
• Adhere to all health and safety procedures and maintain accurate testing documentation.
• Manage testing schedules, handover documentation, and witness records.
• Ensure all documentation is completed and submitted to the Project Manager prior to project closeout.
• Make minor adjustments to protection relay settings and configurations as required.
• Undertake additional duties as requested by senior staff within the business

Experience required

• ONC (or equivalent) in Engineering.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a testing environment.
• Strong knowledge of control and protection schemes.
• Solid understanding of basic protection relays.
• Ability to read and verify electrical schematics.
• Competent in the use of multimeters and injection test equipment.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong leadership, organisational, and interpersonal abilities.
• Full UK driving licence.
• Ability to work effectively in a field-based environment and provide practical solutions under pressure.

The company are a multi-national group, being No 1 in Europe for what they do! With a number of awards and recognitions, with great career progression and opportunities across the business!

Join a business at the forefront of innovation, with a lot to offer! A company backed by a record multi-year order book, offering long-term stability and sustained investment, with years of secured work ahead!

We have multiple openings for Manufacturing Test Engineers to step into a role where your expertise truly matters. As a Manufacturing Test Engineer, you’ll become a central player in a high performing Manufacturing team, working on the testing and diagnostics of advanced electronic sub-systems and circuit cards across the full product lifecycle. If you’re looking for a position where your technical skills directly influence product quality, reliability and overall mission success, this is an opportunity not to miss.

Responsibilities:

• Supporting electronic test and diagnostics activities across all stages-from early design input through to production readiness and operational release.
• Assuring new test facilities are fully controlled, configured and ready for operational use.
• Creating clear, accurate test specifications, operator instructions and supporting documentation.
• Conducting hands on testing of electronic assemblies, including detailed fault finding down to component level.
• Working closely with Operations, Design Engineering and other stakeholders to resolve technical challenges quickly and effectively.
• Upholding high-quality standards and continually seeking ways to enhance processes and tools.
• You’ll be part of a team that thrives in a fast-paced environment, values collaboration, and shares a genuine commitment to technical excellence.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• HNC/HND/Degree in a relevant engineering discipline
• Strong experience in electronic manufacture, testing and diagnostics
• Confident using manual and automated test equipment
• Experience with ERP/MES systems (e.g., SAP, MES) for recording test activities and managing non-conformances
• Ability to organise, prioritise and deliver across multiple tasks
• Clear, structured communication skills, including report and documentation writing
• A natural problem solver with excellent attention to detail

Important: Candidates must be British Citizens or Dual Nationals holding British citizenship as a minimum requirement. Please note that restrictions or limitations relating to nationality and/or the right to work may apply.

All successful candidates will be required to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks after the offer stage. These checks are administered by the client.

Flexible working: The role offers flexible working but does require engineers on site for 4- 5 days per week and is a on secure site where SC clearance is needed.

Even If you feel like you don’t meet every requirement, we encourage you to reach out and apply.

Java Developers - Java21 min, TDD & BDD, West Yorkshire, 12 month contract - Inside IR35 - 750 /day Major Government client has superb opportunities for outstanding Java Developers with recent experience of Java21 or later. Working within a Team of Developers, Designers and Analysts, you will be an experienced Java Developer with a solid understanding of Agile, and on a day-to-day basis you will be responsible for designing, creating and improving new and existing products, platforms and transactions across government projects. Skills/ experience: You will have recent experience with Java 21 (or later), an excellent understanding of TDD and BDD, large microservice architectures, working in an Agile environment, be willing to work in a pair programming environment, have experience in implementing APIs for internal and external use along with the skills to build up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a continuous deployment environment. Additionally you will take part in 2nd-line support of applications and platforms, including occasional support outside of office hours, working knowledge of Unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X coupled with understanding of the use of Responsive Web Design. Desirable skills include working knowledge of Jackson, JAX-RS, mocking frameworks such as Mockito, and messaging platforms such as ActiveMQ or Kafka, MongoDB or other document databases, building and scaling high-traffic websites and handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage. Hybrid role, 60% in the office per week in Leeds Fusion People are committed to promoting equal opportunities to people regardless of age, gender, religion, belief, race, sexuality or disability. We operate as an employment agency and employment business. You'll find a wide selection of vacancies on our website.

Ready to keep quality at the heart of projects with impact?

Do you want to make a real impact by ensuring quality in services? Are you ready to grow your skills in a supportive, knowledge-sharing community where you can achieve your potential?

We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government, healthcare and purpose-driven businesses. As a Quality Assurance consultant, you’ll ensure that quality assurance is considered from the start through testing, questioning and improving. You’ll apply your adaptability and communication skills across a variety of projects, working with a vibrant QA community that champions learning and knowledge sharing.

The role

You’ll work on public and private sector projects. You’ll likely be working as a lead software quality engineer on internal and client-facing projects, contributing to the leadership of teams.

Leading by example and promoting the Opencast approach, you’ll support colleagues to develop knowledge and work through challenges in all testing types. You’ll decide the best thing for your team to be working on. You’ll collaborate with team members, clients and users to ensure that high quality is maintained and best practices are followed throughout the project. You’ll adapt to different tools and technologies, advising on the best ones to use.

You’ll ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast’s quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards, and procedures while working on client.

Requirements

Due to the nature of this role, applicants must either currently hold active Security Check (SC) Clearance or be eligible to obtain it.

Eligibility typically requires UK citizenship and continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, with no single absence exceeding 28 consecutive days. As a result, we are unable to progress applications from candidates who do not meet these requirements.

Essential experience

To succeed in this role, you must have experience working as a lead software tester on multiple complex projects and have a good understanding of what it means to be a senior consultant.

In your CV and at interview, you’ll need to show experience of:

• Your working area and how you apply this to your role

• Functional and non-functional automation testing using Playwright with Typescript

• Creating test documentation

• Resolving complex issues and presenting findings to stakeholders

• Creating tasks from high-level requirements

• Defect triage

You’ll need a good understanding of:

basic principles of programming paradigms, such as object-orientated programming and procedural programming

the concepts and benefits of OAT testing.

As well as QA skills, there are essential core skills you’ll need to be a great consultant.

In the interview, we will assess how you have:

• Demonstrated strong attention to detail and focus on high-quality outcomes

• Took a methodical approach to resolving complex problems

• Respectfully challenged decisions or solutions when necessary

• Communicated effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Proactively sought solutions to mitigate risk

• Raised risks and issues using the appropriate tools and processes

• Built strong working relationships and successfully resolved conflicts

• Led project meetings and actively contributed to workshops and events

Desirable experience

Some areas of experience are not essential but relevant to the role:

• UK government service standards

Salary

Senior consultant salary range: £56,001-£60,000 per annum

What we offer

A competitive package including a 7% employer pension contribution, share options and a discretionary bonus. You’ll also benefit from flexible working hours (aligned to client commitments), 25 days’ holiday, and access to 3 annual “life happens” days to support unexpected situations. We also offer wellbeing support, ongoing professional development, volunteering opportunities and the chance to be part of a genuinely supportive team.

Where you’ll work

This role requires regular on-site attendance across our HQ, hub offices, client sites and home. Applicants must be able to commute to offices and client sites as part of their normal working arrangements, as travel is essential to fulfilling the responsibilities of the role.

We include you

We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.

Interview

Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams. We’re happy to make adjustments to support your needs.

Want to know more?

Visit our website or email careers@opencastsoftware.com

We are not working with recruitment agencies on this vacancy. If you are interested in this position, please apply directly with Opencast.

SAP Test Analyst - Hybrid SuccessFactors & S/4HANA

Public Cloud

Location: Fully Remote (Manchester once a month)

Contract Length: 3 months initial

£350 a day (Inside IR35)

Project Context

We are delivering a large-scale SAP-enabled transformation involving the implementation of SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud and SAP SuccessFactors. The programme will modernise the core HR, Finance, Procurement, and Payroll capabilities to improve service delivery.As part of the internal test team, we are seeking an experienced SAP Test Analyst to work across both S/4HANA Public Cloud and SuccessFactors modules, with a strong focus on end-to-end process validation testing. This is for the UAT test phase.

Role Overview

You will be responsible for creating test scripts for business processes that span across HR, Finance, Procurement, and Payroll. The role requires strong experience in S4 deliveries, as well as the ability to understand the requirements of local government organisations.You will work closely with the SAP Test Manager, Business SMEs, SAP implementation partner, and council stakeholders to ensure the solution is fully tested and fit for purpose.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Experience testing across SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP SuccessFactors environments. Any Public cloud is a desirable.
• Good understanding of local authority business processes, including HR/payroll and finance/procurement/accounts payable.
• Practical experience with end-to-end testing of integrated SAP landscapes.
• Proven ability to write S4 HANA test scripts - preferably for local government structures and processes.
• Strong experience in defect management and test life cycle documentation.
• Understanding of data in SAP S4 deliveries - including master data and finance life cycle

Desirable Skills

• Experience testing SuccessFactors to S/4HANA Public Cloud integrations.
• Familiarity with SAP Cloud ALM (CALM), SAP Solution Manager, or equivalent test management tools.
• ISTQB or equivalent testing qualification.
• Experience delivering testing in a public sector transformation programme.

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Do you want to make a real impact by ensuring quality in services? Are you ready to grow your skills in a supportive, knowledge-sharing community where you can achieve your potential?

We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government, healthcare and purpose-driven businesses. As a Quality Assurance consultant, you’ll ensure that quality assurance is considered from the start through testing, questioning and improving. You’ll apply your adaptability and communication skills across a variety of projects, working with a vibrant QA community that champions learning and knowledge sharing.

The Role

You’ll work on public and private sector projects. You’ll likely be working as a lead software quality engineer on internal and client-facing projects, contributing to the leadership of teams.

Leading by example and promoting the Opencast approach, you’ll support colleagues to develop knowledge and work through challenges in all testing types. You’ll decide the best thing for your team to be working on. You’ll collaborate with team members, clients and users to ensure that high quality is maintained and best practices are followed throughout the project. You’ll adapt to different tools and technologies, advising on the best ones to use.

You’ll ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast’s quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards, and procedures while working on client.

Requirements

Due to the nature of this role, applicants must either currently hold active Security Check (SC) Clearance or be eligible to obtain it.

Eligibility typically requires UK citizenship and continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, with no single absence exceeding 28 consecutive days. As a result, we are unable to progress applications from candidates who do not meet these requirements.

Essential experience

To succeed in this role, you must have experience working as a lead software tester on multiple complex projects and have a good understanding of what it means to be a senior consultant.

In your CV and at interview, you’ll need to show experience of:

• Your working area and how you apply this to your role

• Functional and non-functional automation testing using Playwright with Typescript

• Creating test documentation

• Resolving complex issues and presenting findings to stakeholders

• Creating tasks from high-level requirements

• Defect triage

You’ll need a good understanding of:

• Basic principles of programming paradigms, such as object-orientated programming and procedural programming
• The concepts and benefits of OAT testing.

As well as QA skills, there are essential core skills you’ll need to be a great consultant.

In the interview, we will assess how you have:

• Demonstrated strong attention to detail and focus on high-quality outcomes

• Took a methodical approach to resolving complex problems

• Respectfully challenged decisions or solutions when necessary

• Communicated effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Proactively sought solutions to mitigate risk

• Raised risks and issues using the appropriate tools and processes

• Built strong working relationships and successfully resolved conflicts

• Led project meetings and actively contributed to workshops and events

Desirable experience

Some areas of experience are not essential but relevant to the role:

• UK government service standards

Salary

Senior consultant salary range: £56,001-£68,000