Quality Assurance

You'll ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast's quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards, and procedures while working on client.

Requirements

Due to the nature of this role, applicants 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. As a result, we are unable to progress applications from candidates who do not meet these requirements.

Technical Skills

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:

• Experience developing and running front-end and API test automation, using tools and frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Cucumber BDD or JUnit.
• Experience writing, maintaining and debugging automated tests across applications and services, using technologies such as Java, Kotlin, Scala, Typescript or JavaScript.
• 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
• Experience working on complex digital services aligned to Government Digital Service (GDS) standards

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, GitLab CI or CircleCI
• Basic principles of programming paradigms, such as object-orientated and procedural programming

Essential Skills

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
• Bring recent government (public sector) experience .
• Deliver complex digital services aligned to Government Digital Service (GDS) standards.
• 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

Salary

£48,000 - £54,000

What we offer

A competitive package including a 7% employer pension contribution, share options and a discretionary bonus. You’ll also benefit from flexible working hours (aligned to client commitments), 25 days’ holiday, and access to 3 annual “life happens” days to support unexpected situations. We also offer wellbeing support, ongoing professional development, volunteering opportunities and the chance to be part of a genuinely supportive team.

Where you’ll work

This role requires regular on-site attendance across our HQ, hub offices, client sites and home. Applicants must be able to commute to offices and client sites as part of their normal working arrangements, as travel is essential to fulfilling the responsibilities of the role.

We include you

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.

Interview

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

Want to know more?

Visit our website or email careers@opencastsoftware.com