Job Title: Quality Assurance Manager-Wealth Management
Location: - Horsham-3Days/week Onsite
Duration: 6months+ Contract Inside IR35
700GBP/Day Inside IR35
Key Responsibilities
Quality Governance
• Define, maintain, and enforce quality standards for product development and operations.
• Oversee adherence to the new PDLC across all domain teams.
• Conduct quality reviews for requirements, architecture, delivery processes, and release readiness.
• Ensure consistency in definitions, acceptance criteria, documentation, and operational discipline.
Supervisory Quality Control
• Act as the top-level reviewer for quality risks across all streams.
• Monitor compliance via audits, checkpoints, and quality gates.
• Identify deviations from agreed standards and initiate corrective actions.
• Possess authority to block releases or milestones that fail to meet quality criteria.
Product Quality Oversight
• Validate that product increments meet business goals and customer expectations.
• Ensure quality is embedded early (“shift-left”) and is transparent across domains.
• Monitor non-functional quality: performance, resilience, operational readiness.
Process Quality & Operational Excellence
• Track and enforce process discipline across planning, delivery, and support activities.
• Maintain clarity and consistency around ways of working:
• PDLC steps
• readiness/done criteria
• documentation rules
• compliance requirements
• Ensure teams follow proper standards for decision-making, change control, and release procedures.
Cross-Team Alignment
• Work closely with Program Management, Product Owners, Architects, Team Leads, and QA teams.
• Facilitate quality governance ceremonies and cross-domain reviews.
• Ensure operational practices are unified across all domains.
Risk & Quality Reporting
• Maintain a quality risk register and escalate issues early.
• Provide regular reports on compliance, gaps, trends, and improvements.
• Advise leadership on quality posture and potential impact on delivery.
Required Skills & Experience
• Quality Governance, PMO, Delivery Management, Product Development, or similar experience
• Solid understanding of software development, product lifecycle, and delivery processes.
• Experience in enterprise-scale programs or transformations.
• Ability to supervise teams (without direct people management).
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Experience conducting quality audits, reviews, or compliance assessments.
• Ability to challenge decisions constructively and enforce standards when needed.
Strong Plus
• Technical background in engineering, architecture, or QA.
• Experience with cloud transformations.
• Experience in PDLC-oriented organizations (product companies).
• Familiarity with operational readiness, SRE concepts, or release governance.
Must have skills:
Governance, Risk and Compliance
Quality compliance & Product quality
Software Quality Standards
Priyanka Sharma
Senior Delivery Consultant
Office: 02033759240
psharma@vallumassociates.com