Quality Assurance Lead

The Consumer IoT (CIoT) platform is an inhouse developed cloud-based platform for IoT services. The technology stack covers Java/Spring, MongoDB, many AWS native services and is continuously evolving. With your deep technical background in software engineering and automation you will be the thought leader for defining a continuously evolving technology-oriented quality portfolio that will be applied across Consumer IoT. Within Vodafone you will be the quality function of Consumer IoT and help building the pathway towards becoming a technology company

In CIoT you will work with a multidisciplinary team responsible for the design, development, and lifecycle of ultramodern CIoT product propositions. As a Quality Assurance lead, you will be accountable for defining and driving Agile QA methodologies in the product and service delivery process from an end-to-end perspective, engaging in all phases of the project and product life cycle. This covers quality planning, quality assurance, quality control, and most important continuous quality improvement.

You will also be guiding a team of onshore and offshore QA engineers and will be responsible to setup a QA centre of excellence. You will provide principles to enable the CIoT team to delivery products and services meeting high quality standards, satisfying customer needs, and delivering a superior user experience.

You are an experienced QA lead that has hands on experience in complex IT projects and worked as part of a cross functional agile team in a DevSecOps environment. You can additionally demonstrate successful definition of QA strategies, and have hands-on experience in Quality Assurance related disciplines, and in e2e Service verification. Moreover, strong communication skills are necessary, as you will work with people and teams around the globe and with different disciplines.

If you are an IoT enthusiast, a passionate technologist, and with a can-do attitude, then join Vodafone Consumer IoT team.

With us you will:

- Defines quality standardisation and QA principles, setting up adequate auditing, monitoring, and enabling Agile delivery teams to run efficient QA during product delivery
- Embeds quality into team principles and consults members across all involved teams on all needed aspects of quality management and quality assurance.
- Establishes a QA excellence framework needed to deliver CIoT products and strategic programmes. E.g. test automation across all levels, best practises in process and tool usage to improve efficiency and effectiveness of QA team alignment of activities and objectives across virtual teams and verticals leverage data and analytics for continuous improvements
- Engage with internal quality management function to align on cross-functional improvement initiatives and strategies
- Establishes a culture of high-quality standards and appetite for continuous improvements, which values defect prevention over defect correction.
- Must have a balanced mix of comprehensive technical and business skills.
- Proven working experience in definition of Quality strategy and QA processes in Telco/ IT industry - experience in Product Development or Software Engineering is an additional asset.
- Hands on experience in mobile content related services like mobile entertainment, as well as mobile commerce and mobile data.
- Excellent communication skills to work in an international environment split over different locations and manage stakeholders across the organisation.
- Deep knowledge in test strategies like TDD, BDD, ATDD and an appetite for trying new ways of working. Excellent knowledge of agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).

Must have technical / professional qualifications:

- = 8 years professional work experience in Quality assurance and Management roles
- Technical degree level (MSc) in Engineering or Computer Science
- Deep experience in software QA tools like with Java Rest assure, Java Junit5, Test Containers, Python, Postman, Cucumber, selenium, and mutation test tools.
- Deep understanding of REST API and web services and how to troubleshoot and verify
- AWS Certified solution architect - desirable
- Experience in agile development/SCRUM and continuous delivery processes.
- Experience in IoT and M2M technologies