Test Assurance Consultant
Posted Today by Jobserve
£750 Per day
Outside
Onsite
Basingstoke
Summary: The Assurance Consultant role involves providing specialist oversight and assurance for a secure government IT infrastructure programme. The position focuses on managing test and trial activities, ensuring infrastructure capabilities are validated, and risks are identified early. The successful candidate will serve as a trusted adviser to programme leadership, offering independent challenge and structured guidance. This role requires active DV clearance and experience in secure government or defence environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic oversight and assurance of Test & Trials activity across the programme
- Review and shape Test & Trials Strategies, Plans, and governance frameworks
- Advise programme leadership on test readiness, risks, and delivery confidence
- Provide independent challenge to ensure robust validation and assurance practices
- Support planning and execution of system integration, acceptance, and operational trials
- Engage with engineering, cyber, and operational stakeholders to ensure coordinated test delivery
- Produce high-level assurance reporting and readiness assessments
- Identify delivery risks and recommend mitigation strategies
- Support transition into service and operational acceptance activities
Key Skills:
- Active DV Clearance (mandatory)
- Strong experience delivering Test & Trials consultancy or leadership within secure government or defence environments
- Demonstrable experience shaping test governance, strategy, and assurance frameworks
- Background working on secure IT infrastructure or complex systems programmes
- Experience advising senior stakeholders on test readiness and delivery risk
- Strong understanding of integration, system, and operational testing principles
- Ability to operate effectively within highly controlled, security-sensitive environments
Salary (Rate): £750 per day
City: Basingstoke
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
Assurance Consultant
Location: Hampshire (Onsite)
Duration: 18 Months
Clearance: DV Clearance required (Active)
Rate: £600 - 750 per day - Outside IR35
OverviewWe are seeking an Assurance Consultant to provide specialist oversight and assurance across a highly secure government IT infrastructure programme.
This role will focus on managing and governing the test and trial activity, ensuring that infrastructure capabilities are validated, risks are identified early, and delivery remains aligned to operational requirements.
The successful candidate will act as a trusted adviser to programme leadership, providing independent challenge, structured guidance, and leadership across complex test environments.
Key Responsibilities- Provide strategic oversight and assurance of Test & Trials activity across the programme
- Review and shape Test & Trials Strategies, Plans, and governance frameworks
- Advise programme leadership on test readiness, risks, and delivery confidence
- Provide independent challenge to ensure robust validation and assurance practices
- Support planning and execution of system integration, acceptance, and operational trials
- Engage with engineering, cyber, and operational stakeholders to ensure coordinated test delivery
- Produce high-level assurance reporting and readiness assessments
- Identify delivery risks and recommend mitigation strategies
- Support transition into service and operational acceptance activities
Essential Skills & Experience
- Active DV Clearance (mandatory)
- Strong experience delivering Test & Trials consultancy or leadership within secure government or defence environments
- Demonstrable experience shaping test governance, strategy, and assurance frameworks
- Background working on secure IT infrastructure or complex systems programmes
- Experience advising senior stakeholders on test readiness and delivery risk
- Strong understanding of integration, system, and operational testing principles
- Ability to operate effectively within highly controlled, security-sensitive environments
If you'd like to discuss this role in more detail, please send your updated CV to (see below) and I will get in touch.