Engineering Manager - Quality Assurance

Engineering Manager - Quality Assurance

Your role

Developing and growing a high-performing QA team
Implementing an automation-first vison to the QA process and making use of the latest automation
tools and frameworks to build pipelines which support continuous testing.
Innovative and results-oriented QA Management with a constant strive to drive efficiency without
compromising on quality.

Key Activities & Responsibilities:

• QA Management
• Collaborate closely with Development and other delivery functions to prioritize and support the delivery of planned work with high levels of software quality.
• Provide QA leadership implementing, leading and coaching continuous improvement qualityassurance across the department.
• Work with the delivery teams to ensure that all software development delivers to a high-quality
• level and will include automated testing, clearly defined test plans/acceptance criteria, quality processes and performance testing.
• Oversee defect monitoring & analysis - ensuring that all reported defects are recorded, tracked and resolved.
• Define & monitor the quality KPIs and provide management information & reporting.
• Drive corrective & preventative action - ensure the appropriate improvements are raised, tracked and implemented in a timely manner as a result of defects, audits, lessons learned and feedback
• Line manage the QA team members conducting regular 1-2-1 meetings and helping each team member meet their career objectives.
• Define continual improvement to reduce cycle time for QA processes.

Required Skills/Experience:

• Experience in a highly technical environment including both the software being developed and the
• development and automated testing techniques in use
• Track record of initiating change & implementing test strategies across an organisation
• Must understand Lean principles to deliver QA in an Agile environment
• Experience of leading testing process for multiple large-scale initiatives/programmes
• Good leadership skills and able to credibly challenge status-quo to deliver best practice solutions
• Experience of with cloud-based architectures, preferably Azure, including cloud persistence and distributed architectures (SOA/Microservices)
• Management of Teams of highly Technical staff.
• Understanding of Lean, Continuous Integration and the DevOps principles / movement.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Strong hands on automation coding skills
• Strong knowledge of BDD
• Financial Services industry experience
• Experience of working within SAFe methodology
• Personal characteristics:
• Able to work well with colleagues
• Highly motivated with an attention to detail
• Ability to manage tasks and workload whilst supporting others
• Confidence and enthusiasm in embracing new technologies and learning new skills
• Conservative approach to managing production servers and changes to them

Engineering Manager - Quality Assurance

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