We're looking for an experienced QA Test Manager to lead and elevate quality across multiple delivery teams working on complex, global platforms. This role spans front‑end and back‑end engineering, with responsibility for driving QA governance, standards and consistency across UK‑based and offshore teams.
You'll operate across 3-4 delivery teams, influencing stakeholders with authority and setting the direction for scalable, efficient QA practices. This is a hands‑on leadership role for someone comfortable working across diverse domains - from digital and eCommerce initiatives to more complex, non‑standard QA challenges.
What you'll be doing
* Establishing and improving QA governance, standards and best practices
* Leading and influencing multiple QA teams across geographies
* Driving test automation, integration, E2E and performance testing
* Improving efficiency and scalability through strong engineering‑led QA
* Supporting and reviewing code where required
* Owning and improving CI/CD‑integrated QA pipelines (e.g. GitLab)
* Working closely with front‑end and back‑end engineering teams
What we're looking for
* Experience in Playwright & Cucumber
* Extensive experience managing QA teams (both automation and manual) on and offshore though partners
* Experience with branching strategies and deployment pipelines
* Experience with AI testing tools and have a passion for emerging TestTech
* Experience with release management, focusing on incremental.
* Proven track record in creating and executing effective QA automation strategies covering both front-end apps and back-end systems /microservices / GraphQl
* Experience with complex data sources with multiple entry points
* Experienced in test documentation: check lists, test cases, bug reports, test reports, clear vision for testing requirements
* Experience with solutions to test on real devices at scale
* Experience in championing Agile working practices such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, TDD & BDD etc
* Understanding of tools for version control (e.g. Git) and continuous integration (e.g. Jenkins, Gitlab) and relevant quality gates that can reduce production bugs and incidents
* Proactively measuring, identifying bottlenecks in the testing approach, focusing on maintaining speed and quality
* Excellent communication and influencing skills, the ability to clearly articulate a point of view to both technical and non-technical colleagues
* Passion, enthusiasm for and a deep interest in technology and software engineering
* A keen desire to constantly innovate and improve both technology and people
If this opportunity is of interest, please submit your CV ensuring it reflects the experience outlined in the job specification.
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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