Quality Assurance Tester
Methods Business and Digital Technology
Quality Assurance Tester
Methods Business and Digital Technology
Digital transformation for UK public sector
Methods Business and Digital Technology · London, United Kingdom (Hybrid) · — · Posted 2026-10-06
Salary: GBP 30,000–40,000
Workplace: hybrid
Department: IT Cloud
Methods is a £100M+ IT Services Consultancy who has partnered with a range of central government departments and agencies to transform the way the public sector operates in the UK. Established over 30 years ago and UK-based, we apply our skills in transformation, delivery, and collaboration from across the Methods Group, to create end-to-end business and technical solutions that are people-centred, safe, and designed for the future.
Our human touch sets us apart from other consultancies, system integrators and software houses - with people, technology, and data at the heart of who we are, we believe in creating value and sustainability through everything we do for our clients, staff, communities, and the planet.
We support our clients in the success of their projects while working collaboratively to share skill sets and solve problems. At Methods we have fun while working hard; we are not afraid of making mistakes and learning from them.
Predominantly focused on the public-sector, Methods is now building a significant private sector client portfolio.
Methods was acquired by the Alten Group in early 2022. Alten is a global engineering firm with approximately 57,000 employees specializing in engineering and IT services.
Methods is driven by a desire to improve public services for the benefit of all the people who use them, leveraging current technologies to deliver user centred solutions and having an internal culture that allows our staff to express themselves and be innovative.
As a QA Engineer you will be expected to work at one of our clients and perform high quality functional and non-functional testing on complex systems. You must be familiar with Agile practices and tools and able to work in fast paced CI/CD environment. You will be proactive and always look for ways to improve the automated tests to make them more efficient.
You can work closely with developers, devops engineers and business stakeholders (operations, incident management and product management) to understand the positive and negative impact software can have on end users and provide accurate updates on the progress and outcomes of testing.
Responsibilities:
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
Key Requirements:
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
Strong experience with Selenium, C# specFlow, BDD framework
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
Desirable Skills & Experience:
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
Desirable Requirements:
Experience with data migration projects
Experience working in the Public Sector
By joining us you can expect:
As well as this, we offer:
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Digital transformation for UK public sector
Methods Business and Digital Technology helps UK public sector organisations upgrade their services with digital transformation. It partners with central government departments and agencies to move from old, siloed legacy infrastructure to a platform-based operating model, keeping costs low while improving front-end public services for citizens. The company provides specialist skills and deep public-sector expertise to transform operations, reduce reliance on expensive suppliers, and strengthen control over customer relationships and operating models. Its goal is to safeguard public-facing services, apply digital thinking to keep services citizen-centered, and deliver real savings and benefits for government and society.
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