Valcon | Quality Assurance

3 days ago

london, United Kingdom Valcon Full time

Who are Valcon?

Valcon is a north-western European consulting, technology, and data company operating in the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and Croatia.

We are private equity-backed and have brought together some of the most exciting companies in Europe to create one of the fastest-growing and most dynamic consultancies in the region. Our mission is to combine premium consulting with deep technology and data expertise to deliver innovative and value-driven solutions for our clients.

About the role:

As a member of Valcon, you will drive the development, winning and delivery of solutions to support a breadth of client needs. This includes supporting network development, client bids, the development of solutions to enhance the Company’s services, the mobilisation of client facing projects, and the client site delivery of projects.

As the Quality Assurance & Testing Practice Lead, you will more specifically:

  • Lead and grow the service with specific focus on expanding our capability around continuous testing, automation and DevOps disciplines.
  • Lead, inspire and coach its members to grow the organisations capability.
  • Support the development and delivery of cutting-edge business solutions to meet the needs of our clients.
  • Lead and oversee the delivery of our most challenging and stretching quality assurance and testing assignments.
  • Lead on the business development of Valcon's consulting’s activity in the continuous testing and assurance space

What experience are we looking for:

  • Significant Subject Matter Expertise and Leadership in the area of Quality Assurance and Testing.
  • Experience of delivering the most complex organisational transformation challenges with specific focus on the testing and QA aspects of the transformation lifecycle.
  • Experience of business development and account management in a consulting environment.

You’ll also bring significant experience of testing techniques, service, systems and implementation approaches covering both agile, DevOps and more traditional implementation methodologies this to include experience of some or all of the below:

  • Establishing a continuous testing approach and the software that supports it.
  • Establishing an automated testing approach and advising on the software and techniques that support it.
  • Establishing a high-frequency release environment and the software and techniques that support that.
  • Establishing a DevOps culture which involves closer working between the dev teams and the operations team and an understanding of creating a culture of shared delivery.
  • Establishing a culture that encourages rapid engagement and resolution of defects and the systems and techniques that support that.
  • Establishing a quality first delivery approach including how to increase a client’s test maturity to achieve this.
  • Establishing a best practice approach to test environment and data management.
  • Experience of defining and implementing test policies and programme test strategies.
  • Ability to create compelling intellectual property and material related to your SME area.
  • Active alignment and engagement with Professional Bodies representatives of the testing profession.
  • Evidence of having coached and mentored junior consulting staff to help them achieve excellence for themselves and their clients.

Delivery Experience:

  • Extensive experience of managing large scale programme test teams (onshore, nearshore and offshore).
  • Establishing a testing strategy as a service for our clients
  • Evidence of managing 3rd party supplier testers as part of a testing eco-system.
  • Building strong partnerships with customer stakeholders.
  • Evidence of a ‘consulting’ mindset that looks to identify and solve client problems rather than simply deliver a named solution.
  • Coaching and mentoring our Consultants providing regular, timely feedback about their performance and supporting them to achieve their best for both Valcon and the client.
  • Evidence of engagement with and convincing of senior stakeholders including c-suite.
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written into all levels of the organisation.
  • Excellent mathematical, analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Acting as both champion and guardian of Valcon's intent, values and methodology, as well as the customer’s goals in delivery of assignments.

Business Development Experience:

  • Evidence of an extensive network of associates and contacts developed over your successful delivery career and of ongoing engagement of this network.
  • Evidence of the identification and landing of business.
  • Evidence of successfully account managing a client over an extended period/several assignment.
  • Evidence of the design and development of new solutions to excite existing clients and attract new clients.
  • Identify opportunities for growth in existing customer organisations, partnering to create breakthrough account plans.

Education and training

  • A record of continuous professional development
  • Ideally a degree level, within a technology or business discipline
  • Relevant professional qualifications (such as International Software Testing Qualifications Board – BCS ISTQB – Or the equivalent gained through practical experience)
  • Scaled agile qualification

We offer you:

The opportunity to work in a diverse and international environment with an informal culture, with a flat hierarchy, in which we cooperate across business areas and levels. We care about results, first and foremost. We care about people and how we can constantly challenge each other to become better. Your background is less important to us than your ability to create results, to create change. We prize excellence and ingenuity but know that both have to be grounded in reality. The reality of making our clients ready for the future.

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