Quality Assurance Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

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-centered 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.

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.

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.

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, GitLab CI or CircleCI
• Basic principles of programming paradigms, such as object-oriented 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

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

• UK government service standards
• Agile methodology

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

Consultant salary range: £44,001 – £52,000 per annum

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.

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 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.

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

Visit our website or email careers@opencastsoftware.com