Software QA Practice Lead

3 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom McGregor Boyall Full time

**Software QA Practice Lead**

**Edinburgh (Hybrid)**

**Permanent**

McGregor Boyall is currently recruiting for a Software QA Practice Lead for an enterprise-level client of ours, based in Edinburgh, due to continued growth within their technology division.

Please see below the responsibilities of the role and the required experience.

**Role Responsibilities**
- Understand the training needs of QA Practice members, identifying, recommending, and organising relevant courses/exams for individuals.
- Ensure tooling required for delivering team commitments is appropriately specified, configured, and managed in line with wider organisational governance frameworks.
- Support personnel through their various roles and responsibilities in Agile delivery teams, coaching and challenging them to improve both their technical and communication skills.
- Work closely with other Practice Leads to ensure recipients of team outputs are quality assured, correctly deployed, configured, and operated.
- Work with the Architecture team to understand high-level architectural components and behavioural characteristics, ensuring your team can turn these into concrete technology benchmarks and tests.
- Document (or facilitate the documentation of) quality assurance methodologies, processes, and conventions to accelerate the delivery of software across front-end and back-end systems.
- Evaluate new and emerging technology trends to ensure that our API delivery capability remains abreast of industry trends.
- Identify and pursue opportunities for automation that improve delivery maturity in terms of cadence, quality, and consistency.

**Skills & Experience**
- Unit testing (.NET, using C#)
- Integration testing
- Performance testing
- Automated CI/CD processes which include quality and security controls
- Influencing and guiding technology decisions in delivery teams
- Managing operational, governance, and security personnel and their concerns
- Representing the organization and department to customers
- Monitoring and guiding third-party suppliers and service providers
- Liaising with senior management to refine department policy and processes
- Familiar with test automation tools including: Vividius test automation framework, Azure DevOps pipelines, Azure DevOps repositories (Git), including branch and merge strategies

McGregor Boyall is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.


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