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QA Tester - **Must have Active SC Clearance**
VIQU IT Recruitment
IR35 not stated
- Day rate
- £400–£500/day
- Location
- London
- Contract length
- Not stated
View original advert (opens in a new tab)Calculate take-home
Take-home a year, roughly
- Outside IR35
- £64,737
- Inside IR35
- £60,562
At £450 a day for 220 days, 2026/27 tax rates.
About this contract
QA engineer building test strategy for large-scale Kafka streaming data pipelines in UK defence AI system. Requires hands-on Kafka expertise, high-volume ETL testing experience, and ability to design automated regression suites from scratch. Twelve-month contract, London, £400-500/day. Active SC clearance mandatory.
Key details
- Security clearance
- SC
- Company
- UK-headquartered AI company building sovereign AI capability for defence and national security
- Sector
- Defence
- Posted
- 29 days ago
Skills
Where it's advertised
Apply through the original advert. IR35 status is as stated there: always confirm it with the hirer.
- View advert from VIQU IT Recruitment (opens in a new tab)VIQU IT RecruitmentReed · Posted 29 days ago
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