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Test Specialist

Test Specialist Location: London Duration: 12 months Clearance: DV Clearance required UMBRELLA only If you're passionate about engineering quality for business-critical services-and you thrive in structured, high-impact…

Pay rate £580 – £610/day
Contract type Contract
Posted 29 July 2026

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Test Specialist
Location: London

Duration: 12 months

Clearance: DV Clearance required

UMBRELLA only

If you're passionate about engineering quality for business-critical services-and you thrive in structured, high-impact programmes-this is a fantastic opportunity to support a team focused on safeguarding critical national infrastructure. Hiring for a reputed client, you'll lead QA strategy and bring clarity, confidence and rigour to testing delivery.

What you'll be doing:
* Lead and execute product quality strategies for the clients service offerings and products
* Design test strategies for business-critical initiatives, helping deliver time, cost and quality across multiple workstreams
* Execute testing activities including test case creation, diagnostics, and test data strategy for a portfolio
* Account for first/second level diagnostics to enable smooth test delivery
* Lead full lifecycle integration testing to support complex projects and drive required deliverables
* Contribute to the design and development of test automation solutions to validate application functionality
* Perform complex defect and issue analysis-identifying impacts and root causes, then defining advanced solutions
* Share knowledge and continuously develop team capability in line with emerging QA engineering trends and best practices
* Mentor other QA engineers as a technical resource

What you'll bring:
* Strong test management, test planning and test case design/writing experience
* Experience with functional and non-functional testing
* Experience with test management tooling such as JIRA and Confluence
* Experience with automated test tools and supporting test automation
* Ansible coding experience
* OSI model awareness
* Experience working on complex, large-scale programmes
* Awareness of ISO 9001 and ISO 29119
* ISTQB certification
* DV cleared

Apply now to take on a role where your QA expertise directly strengthens critical services-and where your technical leadership can make a measurable difference.

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