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 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. If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from us, please contact us via the ManpowerGroup website