Quality Assurance Consultant — SC Cleared, Flexible Hours

Opencast | B Corp™; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

7% employer pension contribution

Share options

Discretionary bonus

Flexible working hours

25 days holiday

Life happens days

Wellbeing support

Professional development

Volunteering opportunities

Job summary

Opencast seeks a Quality Assurance consultant to ensure quality from the start through testing, questioning and improving. You’ll work across public and private sector projects, acting as sole tester on some engagements and collaborating with teams to maintain high standards.

The role requires UK SC clearance eligibility and regular on-site work across HQ, hubs, client sites and offices. You’ll mentor colleagues, adapt to tools, and promote best practices in QA and government standards.

Qualifications

• Experience as sole software test engineer on a project.
• Ability to present work to stakeholders.
• Experience with automated front-end and API testing.
• Experience with CI tools and test reporting.
• UK citizenship and SC clearance eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Lead testing across projects, sometimes as the sole QA engineer.
• Collaborate with team, clients and users to ensure quality.
• Develop and maintain test plans and reports.
• Mentor junior colleagues on QA best practices.
• Ensure compliance with client policies and standards.

Skills

Automation testing

Stakeholder communication

Defect management

User stories & tasks

Version control (Git)

Test planning & reporting

E2E & UAT

Tools

Cucumber BDD

JUnit

Git

Jenkins

GitLab CI

CircleCI

Job description

Opencast seeks a Quality Assurance consultant to ensure quality from the start through testing, questioning and improving. You’ll work across public and private sector projects, acting as sole tester on some engagements and collaborating with teams to maintain high standards.

The role requires UK SC clearance eligibility and regular on-site work across HQ, hubs, client sites and offices. You’ll mentor colleagues, adapt to tools, and promote best practices in QA and government standards.