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.

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. 

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.

Disclaimer: We will be interviewing for this role as suitable applications are received and may close this role before the closing date upon a successful candidate being appointed

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:

• 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
• Presenting work to stakeholders
• Managing defects and tasks through to resolution
• Creating user stories and technical tasks from high-level requirements
• Version control tools like git and peer review processes
• Creating test plans and reports
• Participating in E2E and UATYou'll need a good understanding of:
• 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:

• Agile methodology