QA & Testing Lead

2 weeks ago


Newbury, United Kingdom Vodafone Full time

**Location: UK based (Blended)**
**Salary: Competitive + Vodafone Benefits**

**Hours: Full time (37.5 hours per week - Mon to Fri)**

Vodafone UK’s blended working approach means you’ll come to your contracted hub location office as and when needed to get things done for your role and for tasks that require it, otherwise you will be able to work from home. Our ‘Office in a Box’ home-working kit will be available for all who need it during your onboarding journey.

**Vodafone UK Business are revolutionising how customers use technology and connectivity, ensuring they are ready for today and the digital innovation of tomorrow.**

In this role, you will be responsible for the overall product testing strategy and framework and for ensuring this is utilised across the team. The overarching product testing strategy should bring together the disparate components from each of the underlying domains and back-office teams and demonstrate how these fit together. This will underpin the QA & testing approach taken within each of the Product, Propositions and Digital delivery squads.

You will manage a team of 10-20 employees as well as contractors, always ensuring your team are well engaged, clear on the vision for the wider business in which you work as well and how this translates to their specific goals and accountabilities. You will also have accountability for resource planning and management and the resolution of issues that impede the testing effort.

You will be an advocate for quality and testing within Vodafone, constantly looking for ways to improve and innovate to create the future.

**What will you be doing?**
- Defining the overarching Testing Strategy for Product Development, obtaining senior support from stakeholders in IT, Networks, Digital and more
- Lead the QA & Testing Team to successfully launch increments of change across multiple squads, establishing appropriate resourcing levels
- Defining the scope of Quality Assurance and testing within the context of each release / delivery
- Planning, deploying and managing the testing effort for any given engagement

**Who are we looking for?**
- Exposure to and understanding of Enterprise IT
- Experience working within a Telecoms Product environment
- Agile/scrum experience
- ISTQB certified (or equivalent)
- Business Partnership /Advisory skills
- Good communication and stakeholder management skillset.
- Team management and leadership

**What’s in it for you?**

An excellent remuneration and bonus package with 28 days holiday entitlement, in addition to bank holidays and paid leave for charity projects. We offer an extensive benefits package that can be tailored to suit you and your family, including employee discounts, retail vouchers, pension plan and share schemes. We’re also proud to provide a Reconnect programme with flexibility to support individuals returning to work after a career break and our market-leading parental leave policies. We’re committed to supporting you throughout every step of your career at Vodafone.

**Together we can**

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, a sign language interpreter, or assistive technology, please refer to the Accessibility section of our Careers website (careers.vodafone.co.uk) under Career Support, for guidance.

**Posting end date: 24th March 2023


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