Head of Quality Assurance - Fully Remote Remote
Job description
The client is a Software company that supplies into the Insurance industry. They are now at scale up stage in their growth. As Head you’ll be reporting to the Senior Delivery Manager, this is a key leadership role in building the strategy for the clients approach to quality assurance to deliver a reliable and consistent application experience to our customers that will fuel the business growth.
You’ll drive the vision, strategy, and implementation of QA solutions across engineering but be willing to get involved with testing on occasion too. You’ll collaborate with the Squad Leads, Heads of Engineering, Platform Engineers, and Product Owners in order to deliver high-quality features for customers, and implement ongoing process improvements in both software development and in our ways of working. You will be responsible for best practice, governance and making sure tooling is in place.
You will tackle high-level challenges and balance quality software with speed of delivery. You will provide clear leadership, inspire and motivate staff to achieve excellence and mentor them as they develop new skills.
Duties:
- Responsible for Defining QA strategy, approach and execution in development projects
- Responsible for line-managing 1 Test Lead and 5 testers. This team will continue to grow.
- Provide leadership and technical expertise within Test Automation and Quality Assurance
- Be accountable for the test automation projects, mentor, and provide leadership to the QA automation developers and managers
- Participate in interviews, induction, training and performance evaluation of all QA leads
- Provide technical leadership and expertise within the field of Quality Assurance and Testing
- Ensuring that the development teams adhere to the principles, guidelines and best practices of the QA strategy as defined
- Focus on continuous QA improvements including usage of appropriate testing tools, test techniques, test automation
- Building and maintenance of quality standards as well as enforcing technical and testing standards
- Monitoring of all the QA activities, test results, bug reports, root cause analysis and identifying areas of improvement. Implement steps required to improve the processes
- Gather and present testing metrics and testing activities for the projects to key stakeholders in engineering and the wider business
- Ensure the proper usage of available tools to gain the maximum benefit of the QA effort. This includes testing tools for functional, performance, automation, etc.
- Manage training and continuous learning of QA staff by means of short courses, conferences, meetups, certifications, etc.
- Be an escalation point for all matters related to testing and quality assurance and operate as a primary point of contact for the QA teams.
- Direct the development of the QA strategy, methodology, discipline and frameworks. Driving and improving the QA team in areas of automated testing and agile testing.
- Provide technical expertise in Test Automation, Testing Methodologies, Testing Processes, Tools and Techniques across the teams. •
Required experince
- A strong leader with proven experience in implementing and shaping the company’s QA processes and strategies across multiple engineering teams.
- Strong technical skills, both functional and non-functional, manual and automation, in a continuous delivery environment.
- Strong communication skills with all the key stakeholders to ensure QA vision is understood and implemented correctly.
- An advocate of Quality Assurance, Continuous Improvement and industry recognized Best Practices.
- An excellent knowledge of Risk Management, Risk Identification and Risk Based Testing.
- Experience managing testing departments or testing functions, managing large and complex activities and processes.
- Proactive, strong-minded, quick thinker, collaborative and assertive.
- Able to motivate a team, recognize good talent and bring out the best out of each individual. • A mature and professional individual who is self-motivated and enthusiastic.
- Excellent communicator, influencing skills and negotiation skills to get management buy-in on ideas and concepts. •
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £95,000.00-£110,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Flexitime
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Day shift
Supplemental pay types:
- Bonus scheme
Work Location: Remote
