QA Specialist

Methods

QA Engineer performing functional and non-functional testing for complex systems at an IT consultancy focused on public sector solutions. Collaborating with developers and stakeholders to ensure project success.

Posted 5/11/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureCloudGrafanaITSMJavaJavaScriptJenkinsSDLCServiceNowSplunk

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Perform functional and non-functional (performance, accessibility, security, operational/user acceptance) testing, working within an Agile team.
Develop and maintain test automation solutions and scripts, promoting best practices within the development team
Develop and maintain performance/load/stress testing solutions using standard or open-source tools
Resolve problems and blockers as they occur and help to unlock the progress of testing
Collaborate, communicate & work effectively with geographically distributed cross-functional teams
Defect Management, ensuring that defects are effectively triaged and managed until resolution
Promote the value of solid testing practices to all delivery stakeholders and influence adoption of best practice

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience with devising TDD/BDD or Acceptance Test Driven Development strategies using a range of tools/frameworks, ensuring test coverage and execution is in line with the project, programme or portfolio Test Strategy and Business Risk Objectives.
Strong Java coding experience and knowledge of automated test frameworks e.g. Serenity, RestAssured
Strong experience using API testing tools, ideally Postman
Experience with integrating testing as part of the Secure-SDLC and CI/CD tooling in an DevSecOps environment using: GitHub, Jenkins, GitLab SaaS, Artifactory, Nexus etc.
Experience with testing citizen facing services
Experience with testing highly scalable, distributed, cloud native (PaaS/FaaS) and microservice orientated architecture applications leveraging containerisation, container orchestration, service mesh, messaging, proxies, API, persistent and ephemeral storage etc.
Experience using formal Test Management tools (Jira/Confluence, ALM).
Good awareness of Application Lifecycle Management and IT Service Management using tools such as Splunk, Grafana and ServiceNow.
Must be eligible for SC Clearance
Experience of using JavaScript Automation Frameworks such as WebdriverIO, Playwright
Experience of running stress/load testing using K6 and Grafana or other/similar open-source tools.
Knowledge of Microsoft Azure Portal
ISEB Certification in Software Testing
Experience with data migration projects
Experience working in the Public Sector

Benefits

Comp & perks

Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience
Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society
Strong, inspiring and thought-provoking leadership
A supportive and collaborative environment.
Development access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme and training
Wellness 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme
Social – Breakfast Tuesdays, Thirsty Thursdays and Pizza on the last Thursday of each month as well as commitment to charitable causes
Time off 25 days a year
Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution
Discretionary Company Bonus based on company and individual performance
Life Assurance of 4 times base salary
Private Medical Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)
Worldwide Travel Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependants included)

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaTDDBDDAPI testingtest automationperformance testingload testingstress testingJavaScriptdata migration

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvinginfluencingtriaging

Certifications

ISEB Certification in Software Testing