Quality Assurance - Senior Consultant (Contract)

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 - Senior Consultant (Contract), 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.
• Serve as a lead software quality engineer on internal and client-facing projects.
• Contribute to the leadership of teams.
• Lead by example and promote the Opencast approach.
• Support colleagues to develop knowledge and work through challenges in all testing types.
• Collaborate with team members, clients, and users to ensure high quality and best practices.
• Adapt to different tools and technologies, advising on the best ones to use.
• Ensure work is carried out in accordance with Opencast's quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures.

Requirements

• Security Clearance: 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.

Technical Skills

• Experience working as a lead software tester on multiple complex projects.
• Good understanding of functional and non-functional automation testing.
• Experience with tools like Playwright, Typescript, and Gatling.
• Carrying out accessibility testing against WCAG 2.2 standards using tools like JAWS and/or Dragon.
• Creating test documentation.
• Resolving complex issues and presenting to stakeholders.
• Creating tasks from high-level requirements.
• Defect triage.
• Active SC clearance due to the nature of client work.

Essential Skills

• Strong attention to detail and high-quality outcomes.
• A methodical approach to resolving complex problems.
• Respectfully challenging decisions or solutions communicated with technical and non-technical people.
• Being proactive and taking the initiative in seeking solutions to mitigate risk.
• Raising risks and issues through the correct tools.
• Building relationships and resolving conflicts.
• Leading project meetings and contributing to workshops and events.

We Offer

• Competitive salary: Up to £500 per day (working inside IR35).
• Hybrid working environment across our HQ, hub offices, client sites, and home.

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.

Locations

• Hybrid - Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, London

Apply Now

Visit our website or email [email protected]

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