Quality Assurance - Consultant

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne

Quality Assurance - Consultant

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

hackajob is collaborating with Opencast Software to connect them with exceptional tech professionals for this role.

Ready for a new challenge? Are you looking for work that makes a difference? Do you want to work with people who learn and grow together?

If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user‑centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government and business.

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, advise on the best and mentor 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.

Essential Experience

• 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 CircleCI
• Basic principles of programming paradigms, such as object‑orientated and procedural programming

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

• UK government service standards
• Agile methodology

Consultant salary range: £43,000 - £56,000

What Our Offer Includes

• 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

Where you’ll work

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 include you

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.

Interview

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

Want to know more?

Visit our website or email

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

Job details

• Seniority level:
  Mid‑Senior level
• Employment type:
  
  Full‑time
• Job function:
  Quality Assurance
• Industries:
  Software Development

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