Quality and Testing Manager

Overview

As Quality and Testing Manager, you will lead quality initiatives across the programme, platform, or domain, ensuring alignment with standards and policies. You will drive end-to-end quality strategies and test plans to enable seamless delivery from development to live environments, leveraging automation within an Agile, cross-functional setting. You will collaborate with stakeholders to improve customer experiences and build a robust test function, including coaching teams and managing risk. This hybrid role offers home-working with weekly office presence and a chance to shape quality outcomes at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• work from home
• hybrid working
• office presence once a week
• full-time role
• Edinburgh; London
• flexible working arrangements

Responsibilities

• Develop and oversee quality strategy, plan, and execution across multiple feature teams and partners
• Ensure only well-designed work packages pass quality testing
• Drive first-time-right delivery through automation and close stakeholder collaboration
• Account for all aspects of quality in run, change, and BAU activities within the domain
• Oversee end-to-end test management: planning, risk, issues, dependencies, governance
• Prioritise defects by impact and resolve them promptly
• Lead and manage testing across multiple teams and conduct lessons learned reviews
• Maintain knowledge of quality standards, risk controls, and Agile testing practices

Key requirements

• Strong knowledge of quality standards and risk controls
• Experience with modern testing practices and Agile methodologies
• Proficiency with Jira
• Practical experience in quality strategy, testing design, and execution
• Experience in functional and non-functional testing (system, integration, performance, security, accessibility, compatibility, penetration, back-out)
• Experience with matrix management and multiple test functions
• Ability to align daily work with strategic product/domain goals and business outcomes
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to peers and management
• Experience in building a test function from scratch
• Preferred integration experience

• collaboration and teamwork
• stakeholder management
• clear communication of complex concepts
• quality assurance practices
• test automation
• Agile quality practices

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