QA Tester - Must have Active SC Clearance

QA / Test Engineer READ THIS BEFORE YOU APPLY You will be testing Kafka-based streaming data pipelines at genuinely enormous scale, and you will be writing the test strategy for the whole programme from a blank page. There is nothing in place today. If that sounds like the job you have been waiting for rather than a job with a gap in it, keep reading. WHO THE CLIENT IS Our client is a UK-headquartered AI company building sovereign AI capability for defence and national security. They have been established for around a decade and are one of the country''s leading builders of AI for high-risk, high-assurance environments.Their platform is an AI operating system built entirely in the UK, designed for settings where security, trust and full infrastructure control are non-negotiable. It deploys across cloud, edge, on-premise and fully air-gapped systems, and is already live inside UK Defence and national security missions.They closed a substantial Series A round recently, hold a significant government framework position, and are scaling engineering and delivery across the UK. Full details of the client are shared with shortlisted candidates. THE PROGRAMME The client is standing up a new twelve-person team across two work streams, delivering a major UK defence programme through a larger prime contractor. The team is being built from scratch, and this role sits in it from day one.One of those work streams is a data management system ingesting enormous volumes of highly varied data: ..... full job details .....