Quality Assurance - Consultant
Description
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 may be the sole software quality engineer on a project or work in a team.
Leading by example and promoting the Opencast approach, you'll work in an agile environment across all testing types. You'll collaborate with team members, clients and users to maintain quality and follow best practice. You'll adapt to different tools and technologies, advising on the best and mentoring junior colleagues.
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
This role involves weekly on-site work, and you’ll be required to travel regularly to client locations across the UK. We’re looking for people who value in-person collaboration, enjoy building strong relationships, and are passionate about delivering solutions that make a real difference for our clients.
Due to the nature of this role, you must either hold active Security Check (SC) clearance or be eligible and willing to undergo the clearance process.
SC clearance is granted in line with UK Government security vetting requirements. Typically, applicants must have UK citizenship and have lived continuously in the UK for at least the past five years, with no single absence exceeding 28 consecutive days. Nationality and immigration status may also be considered as part of the vetting process. We are unable to progress applications from candidates who do not meet these requirements.
If you are unsure whether you meet the eligibility criteria, we encourage you to review the guidance or discuss this with us before applying.
We are recruiting for multiple positions, with opportunities available immediately and in the coming months. If you are interested in joining Opencast, we encourage you to apply.Technical Skills
To succeed in this role, you must have experience working as the sole software test engineer on a team.
In your CV and at interview, you’ll need to show experience of:
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Writing, running and debugging functional automation tests on an integrated development environment (IDE) for front-end and API testing and frameworks like Cucumber BDD or Junit
- Experience writing, maintaining and debugging automated tests in Scala-based applications and services. Also using a range of technologies including Java, Kotlin, Ruby or JavaScript
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Presenting work to stakeholders
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Managing defects and tasks through to resolution
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Creating user stories and technical tasks from high-level requirements
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Version control tools like git and peer review processes
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Creating test plans and reports
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Participating in E2E and UAT
- Your working area and applying this to your role
- Concepts and benefits of non-functional testing
- Continuous integration tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI or CircleCI
- Basic principles of programming paradigms, such as object-orientated and procedural programming
Essential Skills
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:
- Organised your workload to ensure you're completing tasks efficiently to ensure quality is unaffected
- Strong attention to detail
- A methodical approach to resolving complex problems
- Respectfully challenged decisions or solutions
- Bring recent government (public sector) experience .
- Deliver complex digital services aligned to Government Digital Service (GDS) standards.
- Communicated with technical and non-technical people
- Been proactive and taken the initiative in seeking solutions to mitigate risk
- Raised risks and issues through the correct tools
Other experience
Some areas of experience are not essential but relevant to the role:
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Agile methodology
Salary
£48,000 - £54,000
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 [email protected]
Skills
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Resume/CV, Full name, Pronouns, Email, Phone, Current location, Current company, What is your age range?Please select from the options below., Which ethnicity do you most closely identify with?This question is multi-selection, please select all that apply., Which of the following best describes your sexual orientation?This question is multi-selection, please select all that apply., Which of the following best describes your gender identity?This question is multi-selection, please select all that apply., Do you identify as Neurodivergent?You don’t need a formal diagnosis to answer. Consider how you relate to neurodivergence, the traits you identify with, the impact it has on how you work and what you’ve learned about yourself through research or guidance. This question is multi-selection, please select all that apply., Do you consider yourself to have a disability or long-term health condition?This question is multi-selection, please select all that apply., Have you previously served, or do you currently serve in the UK armed forces?Please select from the options below., Are you returning to work after a career break? (of a period of more than 12 months) Please select from the options below., Socio-Economic Background: What was the occupation of your main household earner when you were aged about 14? Please select from the options below.
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- Are you eligible to work in the UK?
- Do you live within 45 miles of any of our hub locations (or within 80 miles if you are based in London)?
- Our Hybrid working policy means that your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel across the UK is part of life at Opencast. This varies in frequency, and takes into account requirements of your work, our clients and your team. - Are you happy to travel as part of our hybrid model?
- Are you looking for contract or perm opportunities with Opencast?
- If offered a position, when would you be available to start (or what is your current notice period)?
- If you are successful with us, we will be required to carry out background checks (checks include basic Disclosure, References and Financial). Are you comfortable with this?
- Would you like to be considered under the Disability Confident Interview Scheme? (Opting in means you are disclosing a disability only for the purpose of the interview guarantee. This will not be treated as a request to record your disability or to arrange any adjustments.)
- Have you served, or are you currently serving, in the UK Armed Forces?
- Security Clearance Requirement: This role requires Security Check (SC) clearance from the UK Government. To be eligible, you must have lived in the UK for the last 5 years, not spent 28 consecutive days or more outside the UK at any one time during those 5 years, and be willing to complete background checks. Please select the option that best describes your current status:
- How did you hear about this job opportunity?
- This role requires recent government (public sector) experience and/or experience of delivering complex digital services that meet Government Digital Service (GDS) standards. Do you have this experience?
Written answers (5)
- If you selected "Yes - Other", Please Specify your Right to Work in the UK optional
- Please confirm your current location
- If you currently hold SC clearance, please provide the following (if known): Sponsoring organisation / Expiry date
- If you selected "Referred" or "Other," please provide additional details in the space below (e.g., the name of the person who referred you, or a brief explanation of how you heard about this opportunity)
- If Yes, Please detail your experience below: