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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
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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

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