Loop Recruitment
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
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QA Engineer | Automation | Cloud (GCP/AWS/Azure) | Agile | Public Sector Digital Transformation
Location: Greater Manchester (Hybrid)
Package: Senior: £60k-£70k | Lead: £75k-£85k + Excellent Benefit
TECH: Selenium | Cypress | Playwright | JMeter | Cucumber/Gherkin | OWASP ZAP | SonarQube | CI/CD | GCP/AWS/Azure
We're working with a successful, growing digital transformation consultancy whose work is genuinely mission-led - delivering platforms and services that make the world a smarter, safer, greener and healthier place. Their solutions are trusted by globally recognised public and private sector organisations, with a strong focus on public sector and civic impact, spanning Civil Defence, Healthcare, Sustainable Environment and Land Asset Management, and Digital Democracy.
This is a genuine opportunity to work on #tech4good projects that matter - not just ship features, but help deliver safety-critical, large-scale digital services that improve people's lives.
We're hiring for both Senior and Lead QA Engineers to join a talented team of dynamic, driven professional problem solvers, creative thinkers and solutions builders who thrive on helping public sector and civic clients meet exciting digital transformation challenges.
The Role
As a QA Engineer, you'll apply your expertise in test planning, design, development and maintenance, while contributing to the ongoing growth of the QA capability within the Engineering discipline.
You'll take responsibility for quality assurance across services and projects that underpin critical public infrastructure and services, working closely with Lead Engineers, DevOps, and multi-disciplinary teams to build robust, repeatable, high-quality testing practices - helping deliver some of the UK's most important tech-for-good projects.
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What You'll Be Doing
- Planning, designing, developing and executing tests to assure high-quality software solutions for public sector and civic-impact projects
- Taking responsibility for QA of services or parts of larger services across design, build, assure, deploy, operate and continually improve stages
- Working with Lead Engineers to understand designs and maintain up-to-date, repeatable test scripts
- Collaborating with DevOps engineers to implement CI/CD pipelines supporting ongoing quality assurance
- Building effective working relationships with client counterparts across government and public sector bodies
- Collaborating across Engineering, User-Centred Design, Service Operations, Delivery Management and Data Science disciplines
- Playing an active role in driving innovation, best practice and Community of Practice events
- (Lead level) Structuring and providing assurance for the work of other QA practitioners
What We're Looking For
- Experience in Quality Assurance across the full software development lifecycle, including functional and automated testing
- Experience with cloud-based solutions (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure)
- Experience working in agile, Continuous Integration environments (Scrum, Jira, Confluence)
- Effective communicator, able to explain complex information to clients and colleagues
- Experience with tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, JMeter, BlazeMeter, BrowserStack, Cucumber/Gherkin, OWASP ZAP, SonarQube
- Experience in non-functional QA practices: performance benchmarking, resilience/chaos testing, scalability, accessibility and security (penetration) testing
- Willingness to maintain up-to-date skills through CPD, including certifications
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Nice to Have
- Experience in a professional services/consultancy environment
- Familiarity with the GOV.UK Digital Service Standard and Technology Code of Practice
- Experience structuring and assuring work for less experienced team members (Lead level)
- Experience taking ownership of QA on projects or parts of larger projects
Why You'll Want This Role
- Work on genuinely meaningful #tech4good projects across healthcare, sustainability, civil defence and digital democracy
- Play a direct role in shaping high-quality, safety-critical public services used at national scale
- Certified Great Place to Work® with a genuinely supportive, flexible culture
- Excellent career development, including funded certifications and professional development programmes
- Strong benefits package: hybrid working, private healthcare, enhanced parental leave, profit share, generous holiday allowance and more
- Join a values-led team focused on Innovation, Excellence and Integrity, working on projects that make a real public impact
If you're an experienced QA Engineer looking to join a mission-led consultancy where your work directly improves public services and civic life, I'd be happy to tell you more.
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