QAT Engineer

LA International; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

LA International is seeking 8 QAT Engineers to join our public sector client’s team in a hybrid role across Manchester, Blackpool, Leeds, or Newcastle. The position requires SC clearance and will involve leading quality assurance initiatives and automation testing to ensure secure, usable services.

Successful candidates will contribute to testing strategies, collaborate across diverse engineering roles, and drive continuous improvement while maintaining high security standards.

Qualifications

• HTML, CSS and JavaScript/Node experience required.
• Security clearance and SC clearance eligibility emphasized.

Responsibilities

• Champion QAT across multiple teams, providing technical leadership and guidance.
• Drive collaboration across engineers of different roles to enable consistent solutions and strategies.
• Build automation test solutions to improve product quality and testing efficiency.
• Ensure usability, accessibility, security, and reliability in service development.
• Promote risk-based, context-driven agile testing and decision-making.
• Lead CI/CD adoption to run comprehensive tests and verify builds.
• Track testing progress and communicate status to stakeholders across teams.
• Share knowledge, mentor peers, and support internal communities.

Skills

HTML

CSS

JavaScript/Node

Job description

Our public sector client is looking for QAT Engineers to join their team. We are looking for 8 Engineers that are able to work on a hybrid basis and work in one of the following locations: Manchester, Blackpool, Leeds, Newcastle.

The role is inside IR35.

Please note that due to the nature of the role SC clearance is required.

• Strong HTML, CSS, JS Node experience.
• Champion QAT across several teams, providing technical leadership and guidance.
• Drive collaboration across engineers of different roles both within your team and the wider teams to solve problems and enable consistent solutions and strategies.
• Build automation test solutions that help to assure the quality of our products, contribute towards their design, and look for way to improve the value automation adds.
• Ensure that usability, accessibility, security, stability, and capacity are embedded in the development of services.
• Drive teams to take a risk based, context driven approach to agile testing assessing and understanding the risks to drive decisions.
• Lead the adoptions of Continuous Integration/Delivery pipelines to run a full range of tests against our products and assure our builds.
• Lead the traceability of testing, risks, defects, and report progress to appropriate stakeholders across several teams.
• Be willing to challenge assumptions and current processes to help us improve. Reusing and evolving our strategies and tooling.
• Drive the identification of tooling and solutions to aid constant improvements, ensuring we build the right product in the right way.
• Proactively share knowledge, solutions and support our internal communities along with mentoring, coaching, and supporting your peers.

Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply.

Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take a minimum 10 weeks.

LA International is an award-winning partner of choice for many of the world's most influential companies and government organisations. Holding Enhanced Government Security Accreditation, we are recognised as the European market leader in the delivery of Security Cleared talent to organisations that demand the very highest levels of security, compliance and assurance.

An award-winning organisation, having secured the prestigious Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade over multiple years. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace where everyone feels valued and supported.

We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of background or identity, and we encourage candidates who may not meet every listed requirement to still apply. If you require any adjustments or support during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure a fair and accessible experience.

Please Note: If a high volume of applications is received, only candidates shortlisted will be contacted.