Test Engineer in Birmingham

Quality Assurance Testing Analyst - SC cleared

Permanent | Hybrid (willing to travel to Newcastle when required) |

We are looking for QAT Analyst with strong HTML, CSS, JS and testing experience to work at an early stage alongside enterprise architects and senior engineers. You will embed into a multi-disciplinary team to understand complicated user needs and business context, and to support our government client to deliver a quality well-tested and accessible User Interface based upon existing prototypes. We are keen to speak to candidates who have experience across both manual and automated testing. Specifically looking for people who understand modern testing practices, shift testing left, contract testing, and unit testing, alongside identifying opportunities to increase automation across both Java and Fronend development teams.

You'll be joining a major digital transformation programme focused on reshaping a nationally important public service. The existing platform supports millions of users and is central to the delivery of key government services. The challenge is to evolve a large and complex legacy estate into a more modern, scalable and adaptable platform that can meet future demands while continuing to deliver critical services at pace.

Key responsibilities

• 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.

About Peregrine

We build workforces that deliver tech and change programmes at leading UK organisations. By combining data science from Peregrine Intelligence, our industry-accredited Peregrine Academy, and market-leading attraction and diversity initiatives, we bridge capability gaps at all levels in public and private sector organisations. We work closely with our clients to understand their challenges and deliver flexible, long-term solutions that make a real difference. When you join Peregrine, you become part of a team that’s focused on growth, both yours, our clients’, and the sectors we support. You’ll also get access to a full range of benefits alongside your salary.

How Specialist Talent Works

As a permanent employee at Peregrine, you’ll be part of our Specialist Talent team. That means you’ll work on-site or remotely with our clients, supporting them on complex, high-impact projects in Data, Digital and Business Transformation. You’ll get the variety and challenge of consultancy work, with the stability and support of a permanent role. You’re not a contractor - you’re a valued member of our team, with access to all the same benefits, learning opportunities, and community.