Quality Assurance - Consultant

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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.

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.

Applicants must either currently hold active Security Clearance (SC) or meet the eligibility criteria to obtain it.

Eligibility requires UK citizenship, continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, and no single absence from the UK exceeding 28 consecutive days.

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.
• 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.

You’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, Git Lab CI or Circle
  
  CI.
• Basic principles of programming paradigms, such as object-orientated and procedural programming.

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.
• 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 helpful experience

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

If you don’t have experience, we can coach you if you join us.

Consultant salary range: £44,001 – £56,000

• A competitive pension, health cash plan, share options and discretionary bonus.
• Flexible hours and 25 days' holiday.
• People to support you every step of the way.

Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and takes in account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.

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

Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.

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