Purpose of the role

This is a key hire for the team and we are looking for a candidate who can drive software QA engineering strategy and set standards for our product teams. You will be working in a central software engineering team performing a critical role to ensure that we are building the right products and with security considerations from the ground up. You will regularly engage with 3rd party and Suppliers and be responsible for identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.
 

Key Responsibilities and Tasks

• Develop software quality assurance strategy by defining a quality vision for software engineering practice, aligned to business goals and objectives.
• Own testing and quality management governance for our product channels.
• Collaborate with the Product teams to set the standards on Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, and to ensure testability for the features within a release.
• Act as the quality evangelist deploying a strong Agile testing mindset, collaborating with stakeholders to ensure high quality, high value solutions are delivered for the business.
• Collaborate with team members ensuring a Shift Left approach to quality, working closely with all engineers to define the optimum automation strategy.
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis with Operations, Service, Support, and other relevant stakeholders and lead quality initiatives to prevent similar incidents.
• Create environments that enable and encourage Continuous Improvement/Development and DevSecOps ways of working, taking input from process owners and other subject matter experts to gain a great understanding of business ways of working and challenges.
• Provide support to the Software and QA Engineers, guide them in implementing and delivering the vision through effective planning, unblocking obstacles, and providing coaching.
• Ensure the team have transparent quality reporting, to demonstrate the automated test coverage at each level, the execution results and easy-to-read outputs.
• Develop growth plans for the team to foster their career development and advancement.
• Review the skill and expertise requirements to accomplish team goals and identify staffing and talent resources to fill project roles.
• Consider and evaluate potential package “off the shelf” solutions in association with IAG Tech Architecture to achieve the defined requirements (including piloting, prototyping and assessing cost of potential solutions).

This role may require travel and working from multiple sites/locations. You must be willing and able to
travel to participate in meetings, workshops, and other related activities.