QA Lead

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom McGregor Boyall Full time

**QA Lead - London**

A major financial services provider is looking for a Quality Assurance Lead to join their team in London. This role offers a highly competitive compensation package including 40 days annual leave, 16% employer pension contribution, performance bonus andprivate healthcare, as well as providing a great work/life balance with only occasional visits to the office a few days per year.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Lead a Technology Practice responsible for software quality assurance:

- Establish and maintain a regular reporting cycle targeted around specific team metrics and objectives to quantify risks, improvements, and delivery status.
- Understand 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.
- Identify gaps in team capacity and capability, working with senior management, HR, and recruitment to grow and backfill the team as needed.
- Act as a central point of communication across the QA discipline to identify synergies, pre-empt conflict, and connect people facing similar challenges.
- 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.
- Establish and maintain standards and governance for software quality assurance:

- 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 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.
- Perfect the practise by ensuring that tooling and environments required by the team are productive, available, and secure.
- Identify and pursue opportunities for automation which improve delivery maturity in terms of cadence, quality, and consistency.

**Skills & Experience**:
Experience testing all aspects of distributed web-based systems built with Microsoft technologies and cloud, including:

- Unit testing (.NET, using C#)
- Integration testing
- Performance testing
- Automated CI/CD processes which include quality and security controls
- Proven ability to establish strong working relationships with a range of stakeholders:

- Influencing and guiding technology decisions in delivery teams
- Managing operational, governance, and security personnel and their concerns
- Representing the organisation 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 (or willing to learn) test automation tools including:

- Vividius test automation framework
- Azure DevOps pipelines
- Azure DevOps repositories (Git), including branch and merge strategies
- Fast learner, able to explore, assess, and evaluate new technologies accurately and independently
- Experience implementing complex software solutions for financial services / advice / wealth management customers
- Strong technical communicator able to work with a multi-disciplinary development team to perfect working practices
- Excellent verbal skills - ability to network, connect people, and marshal a team to solve problems
- Excellent written skills - ability to review documentation and identify issues and improvements
- Ability to utilise a team to solve deep technical problems without necessarily being an expert in the specific area

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

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