Quality Assurance - Consultant

About the Position

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.

Responsibilities

• Work on public and private sector projects.
• Lead by example and promote the Opencast approach.
• Collaborate with team members, clients, and users to maintain quality and follow best practice.
• Adapt to different tools and technologies, advising on the best and mentoring junior colleagues.
• Ensure work is carried out in accordance with Opencast's quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures.

Requirements

• Technical Skills:

  • Experience working as the sole software test engineer on a team.
  • Writing, running, and debugging functional automation tests on an 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 using 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 UAT.
  • 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-oriented and procedural programming.

• Essential Skills:

  • 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:

  • Agile methodology.

Salary

£48,000 - £54,000

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.

About the Company

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.

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Want to know more? Visit our website or email [email protected]