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🚨 Senior QA Engineer (SC Cleared) | 6-Month Contract | Outside IR35 | Remote
I’m hiring a Senior QA Engineer to join a major new programme, owning quality across data intensive and quantitative systems.
This is a role for someone who wants to own the QA strategy, not simply execute a predefined test plan.
- Fully Remote
- £450–£550/day
- 6-month contract
- Outside IR35
- SC Clearance required
- ASAP start
The Role
You’ll be responsible for embedding quality throughout the engineering lifecycle from the first line of code through to secure deployment and formal customer acceptance.
A key requirement of the project is experience in large-scale data pipeline testing, alongside the ability to produce exhaustive documentation for factory assurance testing processes.
You’ll work across:
- Automated integration, E2E, regression and performance testing
- Defining test strategy, plans and coverage
- Building CI-integrated automation frameworks
- API, functional, exploratory and non-functional testing
- Large-scale data pipeline testing, transformations and data quality
- Validating quantitative/model outputs against known reference cases
- Establishing quality gates and defect triage processes
- Producing exhaustive documentation and evidence for factory assurance testing and customer milestone sign-off
- Testing deployments into secure and air-gapped environments
- Championing shift-left testing and a strong quality culture
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What I’m Looking For
- Strong QA / Test Engineering background
- Proven experience testing large-scale data pipelines
- Experience with Apache Kafka and testing event-driven/streaming data pipelines
- Experience producing detailed, exhaustive test documentation and assurance evidence
- Automation experience with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, pytest or similar
- Strong Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript skills
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
- Strong API testing, test strategy and defect management experience
- Comfortable owning QA strategy rather than simply following one
- SC Clearance held or willingness to undergo
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Nice to Have
Experience with:
- Performance/load testing – k6, JMeter, Locust
- Data-intensive, streaming or model-driven systems
- Validating numerical/analytical outputs
- Security-conscious or high-assurance environments
- Containerised test environments
- Defence, Government or regulated environments
- Air-gapped/restricted environments
- ISTQB or equivalent
If you're an SC-cleared Senior QA Engineer with strong data pipeline, Apache Kafka and factory assurance/documentation experience, this could be a great fit.
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