801 Qa Lead jobs in the United Kingdom
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QA Lead & Automation Engineer
Location
Birmingham
Corporate Title
Assistant Vice President
An exciting opportunity for a driven Test Automation Engineer, to define and impact the strategic test
automation approach across a cutting-edge, award-winning department in the Bank's Technology, Data & Innovation (TDI) division.
As the QA Lead Automation Engineer for Archiving Technology, working with Test Engineers and Product colleagues, you will play a key role in ensuring a thorough and consistent approach to Test Automation across our domain.
You will lead the development and maintenance of Test Automation frameworks and scripts across Archiving Technology for both Functional and Non-Functional testing activities, analysing results and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.
What We'll Offer You
A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That's why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.
You can expect:
- Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them
- Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
- 30 days' holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
- Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
- A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
- The opportunity to support a wide-ranging CSR programme + 2 days' volunteering leave per year
Your key responsibilities
- Standardisation, Continuous Improvement & Maintenance of Test Automation Framework across the Archiving Technology including coding guidelines
- Standard automation test approach to test the different layers of the Product i.e. UI, API, Database, etc.
- Automated Test Automation Dashboards for Archiving Tech
- Coach and mentor the junior Quality Engineers on Test Automation
- Knowledge sharing of approach and solution to Test Automation issues/challenges by demonstration
- Standardising the definition of Non-Financial Risk (NFR) & related performance Testing approach; Adherence to Bank's Performance monitoring standards
Your skills and experience
- Experience of defining & implementing Test Automation strategies in large IT organisations, ideally working in an Agile framework operating a CI/CD DevOps approach
- Thorough understanding of TDD and BDD techniques including Gerkin, Cucumber syntax
- Understanding of Automated design patterns - Page Object Model; Factory Design Pattern, FaçadePattern, Singleton Pattern
- Significant experience of following tools: - Selenium & Serenity Automation framework; TestNG; Junit; LoadRunner/Performance Centre; JMeter; Integrating test automation with Jenkins & Team City
- Demonstrable experience of defining Non-Functional Requirements and developing performance testing automation frameworks
- Good working knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint online, O365, ServiceNow
How we'll support you
- Training and development to help you excel in your career
- Coaching and support from experts in your team
- A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
- A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs
About us
Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.
Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to have been named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2024 for six consecutive years. Additionally, we have been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers 2024 for our work supporting LGBTQ+ inclusion.
If you have a disability, health condition, or require any adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to contact our Adjustments Concierge on to discuss how we can best support you. Alternatively, you can share your phone number, and a member of the team will be happy to call you to talk through your specific requirements.
We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.
Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.
We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.
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Job Title
QA Lead & Automation Engineer
Location
Birmingham
Corporate Title
Assistant Vice President
An exciting opportunity for a driven Test Automation Engineer, to define and impact the strategic test
automation approach across a cutting-edge, award-winning department in the Bank's Technology, Data & Innovation (TDI) division.
As the QA Lead Automation Engineer for Archiving Technology, working with Test Engineers and Product colleagues, you will play a key role in ensuring a thorough and consistent approach to Test Automation across our domain.
You will lead the development and maintenance of Test Automation frameworks and scripts across Archiving Technology for both Functional and Non-Functional testing activities, analysing results and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.
What We'll Offer You
A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That's why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.
You can expect:
- Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them
- Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
- 30 days' holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
- Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
- A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
- The opportunity to support a wide-ranging CSR programme + 2 days' volunteering leave per year
Your Key Responsibilities
- Standardisation, Continuous Improvement & Maintenance of Test Automation Framework across the Archiving Technology including coding guidelines
- Standard automation test approach to test the different layers of the Product i.e. UI, API, Database, etc.
- Automated Test Automation Dashboards for Archiving Tech
- Coach and mentor the junior Quality Engineers on Test Automation
- Knowledge sharing of approach and solution to Test Automation issues/challenges by demonstration
- Standardising the definition of Non-Financial Risk (NFR) & related performance Testing approach; Adherence to Bank's Performance monitoring standards
Your Skills And Experience
- Experience of defining & implementing Test Automation strategies in large IT organisations, ideally working in an Agile framework operating a CI/CD DevOps approach
- Thorough understanding of TDD and BDD techniques including Gerkin, Cucumber syntax
- Understanding of Automated design patterns – Page Object Model; Factory Design Pattern, FaçadePattern, Singleton Pattern
- Significant experience of following tools: - Selenium & Serenity Automation framework; TestNG; Junit; LoadRunner/Performance Centre; JMeter; Integrating test automation with Jenkins & Team City
- Demonstrable experience of defining Non-Functional Requirements and developing performance testing automation frameworks
- Good working knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint online, O365, ServiceNow
How We'll Support You
- Training and development to help you excel in your career
- Coaching and support from experts in your team
- A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
- A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs
About Us
Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.
Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to have been named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2024 for six consecutive years. Additionally, we have been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers 2024 for our work supporting LGBTQ+ inclusion.
If you have a disability, health condition, or require any adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to contact our Adjustments Concierge on to discuss how we can best support you. Alternatively, you can share your phone number, and a member of the team will be happy to call you to talk through your specific requirements.
We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.
Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.
We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.
QA Lead
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We are looking for a seasoned
QA Lead
with over 12 years of experience in testing cloud-based enterprise applications. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in at least one of the following platforms:
- Salesforce
- Oracle Cloud ERP / CPQ
- ServiceNow
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and execute end-to-end testing for CRM and ERP systems.
- Demonstrate strong understanding of system functions and business processes.
- Identify testing gaps, create and maintain test cases and test cycles.
- Perform test execution, document results, and manage SIT, E2E, and UAT phases.
- Communicate issues early from test cycles to help raise risks proactively.
- Collaborate with business leads and QA leadership to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
- Explain project/customer business processes clearly and effectively.
- Work across multiple applications/modules beyond primary expertise.
- Utilize test management tools such as
Jira
and
Zephyr
.
Required Skills:
- Deep understanding of
Salesforce
for customer management and case processing. - Experience with
Oracle Cloud ERP
and
Oracle Cloud Integration
. - Strong analytical and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and in cross-functional teams.
QA Lead & QP
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QA Lead & QP
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QA Lead & Qualified Person (QP)
Location: Luton (with regular travel to Nottingham and North London)
Industry: Sterile Pharmaceutical Products
Direct Reports: 4
About the Role:
We are seeking an experienced and dedicated QA Lead & Qualified Person (QP) to join a growing team, overseeing quality assurance activities across multiple sites. This is a pivotal role ensuring compliance with GMP standards in the manufacture of sterile pharmaceutical products. You will be based in Luton , with regular travel to our facilities in Nottingham and North London .
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as a UK Qualified Person in accordance with Directive 2001/83/EC and UK Human Medicines Regulations.
- Lead and manage a team of 4 QA professionals, providing mentorship and strategic direction.
- Oversee batch release of sterile pharmaceutical products, ensuring full compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Develop and maintain robust quality systems and ensure continuous improvement initiatives.
- Conduct internal audits and support external regulatory inspections.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with manufacturing, regulatory affairs, and supply chain teams.
- Drive quality culture across all sites and ensure alignment with corporate standards.
Requirements:
- Must be a UK-registered Qualified Person .
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in pharmaceutical quality management, ideally within sterile manufacturing.
- Strong leadership and team management skills.
- In-depth knowledge of GMP, MHRA, and EU regulatory requirements.
- Willingness to travel regularly between Luton, Nottingham, and North London sites.
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
What We Offer:
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Opportunity to lead quality operations across multiple sites.
- Supportive and collaborative working environment.
- Career development within a growing pharmaceutical organization.
Key Words:
Quality Assurance, QA, QP, Qualified Person, compliance, operations, operational, Lead, Manager, Head, Senior, Leadership, pharmaceutical, medicine, sterile, aseptic, compounding, biopharmaceutical, audit, auditor, batch release, GMP, cGMP
QA Lead - Food Manufacturing
Posted 80 days ago
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QA Lead - Food Manufacturing
Leicestershire
£37k
This successful Food manufacturer has a new opportunity for a QA Lead - a new role to add to the team. If you are looking for the next step in your technical career and would like to develop your skills surrounded by supportive, experienced and knowledgeable technical team, this is an ideal move.
Why join this business?
- A medium sized food business with a wide range of customers. A varied customer base for any food manufacturer gives a good balance and healthy security for the future.
- A positive and friendly place to work with good employee engagement - the evidence is there to see, touch and feel.
- A leadership team with clear goals and ambitions, defining their culture and giving clear direction.
- Excellent growth plans, well invested factory.
Overview of day to day responsibilities:
- Have a strong presence in the factory.
- Supervise a small team of QA's in food manufacturing, taking accountability for your team's performance while promoting and maintaining high standards of food safety and quality.
- Conduct audits and inspections of the production facility including the processes and products to ensure compliance with specification, retail and company standards.
- Direct food safety and quality improvement projects to ensure excellence in product standards.
- Coordinate, prioritise, and delegate daily responsibilities for your team to ensure the timely completion of audits, verifications, and compliance tasks
- Conduct internal training and provide guidance on quality assurance principles and practices.
- Maintain accurate and up to date records and documentation of audit findings and actions.
- Build and interpret data from audits to identify areas for improvement and develop action plans.
- Participate in the continual development of the Quality Management Systems on site and highlight any changes to the production and engineering teams.
- Support the implementation of the Quality Plan focusing on GMP, hygiene, traceability and the audit schedule.
In terms of background the ideal candidate will have:
- Ideally a background in QA in the food industry.
- Good understanding of GMP and promoting high standards.
- Comfortable being in a busy factory, communicating clearly and openly with staff in all functions.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Able to support successful audits.
If you are detail orientated, self-motivated with a passion for quality in food manufacturing this is an ideal role for that next step in your technical career.
QA Lead - Engine by Starling
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At Engine by Starling , we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology.
Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling Bank, and two years ago we split out as a separate business.
Starling has seen exceptional growth and success, and a large part of that is down to the fact that we have built our own modern technology from the ground up. This SaaS technology platform is now available to banks and financial institutions all around the world, enabling them to benefit from the innovative digital features, and efficient back-office processes that has helped achieve Starling's success.
As a company, everyone is expected to roll up their sleeves to help deliver great outcomes for our clients. We are an engineering led company and we’re looking for someone who will be excited by the potential for Engine’s technology to transform banking in different markets around the world.
Hybrid Working
We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Engine - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person.
About the Role
We’re looking for someone to lead our QA function, you will perform both functional and non-functional testing of our mobile and web applications, ensuring that they perform as expected and they meet our very high standards. We are looking for someone who will advocate for testing throughout the lifecycle of the product and who takes pride in ensuring we are releasing good quality software that helps our customers.
In this role, you’ll work with our engineers to enhance our test-driven development approach to building applications. We aim for a very high level of test automation across our applications so we can deploy to production many times a day. Our engineers are responsible for understanding the desired behaviour of the code they are writing and testing.
You will be expected to use your own initiative to test and validate features, functional controls and logic flows, as well as plan and execute regression testing. You are looking for the missed edge cases, verifying behaviour on a variety of devices and form factors and looking for consistency issues between our platforms. You’ll monitor and drive improvements, and communicate identified risks or issues to the wider team.
At Engine, we spend our time building products that we’re really proud of. We focus on the experience, often delivering things with real polish but sometimes making a fast strategic move. We think being good at product requires clear communication, a sense of focus, and to challenge the conventional ways of doing things. We’re open-minded when it comes to hiring, we care more about skills and attitude than specific experience or qualifications.
Key Responsibilities- Develop comprehensive test strategies and plans and execute them.
- Understand the requirements from technical and business specifications, ensuring our products are built in line with them.
- Manage and scale our existing QA team, ensuring that the team's goals align with our company strategy.
- Helping with regression tests and feature testing.
- Implement and maintain automated test frameworks and scripts.
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to other QA team members.
Requirements
- Experienced tester who can work under their own initiative, in an autonomous manner, collaborating with all areas of Engine, including engineers, product designers and product owners
- 5+ years of experience with automated testing of applications across iOS, Android and web.
- Experience automating E2E user journeys - ideally with mobile applications, at Engine we QA mainly use Maestro.
- Able to analyse risk, severity, and impact of issues identified and work with the wider team to prioritise and resolve them.
- Maintain an adaptable, pragmatic approach to testing; switching modes to meet the needs of the company.
- Good understanding of user experience best practices and UX testing
- Experience in managing, mentoring and knowledge sharing with team members.
- Experience in banking/fintechs.
- Experience working in a SaaS company with scale.
Interview process
Interviewing is a two way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team:
- Stage 1 - 45 mins with someone from the tech team
- Stage 2 - 60 min with two team members
- Stage 3 - Final with either CTO/ Deputy CTO or Engineering Director
Benefits
- 33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it works best for you)
- An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
- Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off
- 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
- Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
- Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection
- Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
- Generous family-friendly policies
- Incentives refer a friend scheme
- Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
- Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing
About Us
You may be put off applying for a role because you don't tick every box. Forget that! While we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. So, if you're excited about working with us, but aren’t sure if you're 100% there yet, get in touch anyway. We’re on a mission to radically reshape banking – and that starts with our brilliant team. Whatever came before, we’re proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems.
Engine by Starling is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Engine by Starling are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
When you provide us with this information, you are doing so at your own consent, with full knowledge that we will process this personal data in accordance with our Privacy Notice. By submitting your application, you agree that Engine by Starling and Starling will collect your personal data for recruiting and related purposes. Our Privacy Notice explains what personal information we will process, where we will process your personal information, its purposes for processing your personal information, and the rights you can exercise over our use of your personal information.
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Senior QA Project Lead
Posted 274 days ago
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We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION!
For 30 years we’ve been independently developing and publishing incredible video games at our multiple studios founded by Jason & Chris Kingsley, but Rebellion is more than just games. We have our own film studio, we create board games, publish books, and through 2000AD, publish comics and graphic novels such as the amazing Judge Dredd.
We have an exciting opportunity for a candidate experienced in leading QA teams to advance their career as our new Senior QA Project Lead. The successful candidate will need to leverage their extensive experience in QA to manage the team and a variety of assigned projects.
Your mission is to oversee the quality of the project and guarantee it meets industry-leading standards. You will ensure that the development aligns with the project's design and adheres to the requirements of the intended platforms. As a leader, you'll guide a team of QA Analysts in testing games according to your vision.
This role is based at our studio in Runcorn, offering a creative and relaxed atmosphere where teamwork drives our success. We can provide a relocation package, including moving assistance, temporary accommodation, and full support to ensure a smooth transition to your new environment.
Responsibilities :
- Manage, lead and motivate test teams.
- Work collaboratively with Production and other departments to ensure project QA requirements are clearly understood then effectively managed through the project lifecycle.
- Plan, create and execute project QA strategies.
- Plan, create and execute project test plan & cases.
- Delegate test cases to test team directly, clearly and efficiently.
- Perform assessments of projects with development and production teams to identify all areas requiring tests, providing risk assessments, and avoiding problems and bottlenecks in the QA process.
- Proactively solve project issues with the test teams and QA Manager, before they impact the project.
- Actively mentor the QA team while leading by example and being a role model for the QA team.
- Actively maintain morale and create an atmosphere of enthusiasm.
- Update & make sure that your line manager is aware of your project’s status.
- Administer and enforce the quality and consistency of bugs as per the project requirements.
- Monitor and manage the bug databases to ensure the team’s efficiency and productivity.
- Set, monitor and achieve goals through the test team.
- Work closely with external stakeholders as required to support QA activities.
- Undertake regular check-ins with team members, including career dialogues and performance reviews as required.
Requirements
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize efficiently.
- Strong leadership skills and decision-making abilities.
- Strong logical, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Resilience, accountability, and responsibility.
- Active listening skills, ability to motivate and incorporate input from within the team.
- Self-motivated, innovative, and analytical with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
- Excellent knowledge of game testing models.
- Extensive knowledge of bug testing and project tracking software (JIRA, Devtrack).
- Exceptional knowledge of the video game development process.
- An excellent understanding of the 8th and 9th generation of consoles and PC platforms.
Benefits
We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:
- 22 days holidays + Christmas closure (typically 4 days) & Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years – one day each year until you reach 31 days)
- Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision
- Life Assurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover
- Enhanced Family Leave
- Interest Free, Tax-Free loans
- Enhanced Pension Scheme
- EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
- Plus loads more… including a wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events!
About Us
Whichever team you join at Rebellion we are proud of our open, friendly, and creative atmosphere. We love what we do, and we have fun doing it! As a big indie developer, we have complete creative freedom over our titles which allows us to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms.
Find out more about us here
Our size, stability, and the variety of in-house expertise across multiple industries, makes Rebellion completely unique! We work in our own way, and we celebrate that as the key to our success. We foster an inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself, to express your creativity and your talent. We are people focused and will support you in every way to can be the best at what you do. We recognise the importance of enjoying what you do and having a healthy work-life balance. We offer a friendly, creative, and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and a wide variety of benefits and development opportunities for all our teams to ensure you are fully supported with your physical and Mental Well-being.
We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to add to our culture of growth and inclusion. Rebellion encourages innovation in all areas, and we look forward to hearing how you can help us to be better. We encourage all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neurodiversity and beyond, because a representative team makes better products.
If you are interested in working at Rebellion, but this role doesn’t sound quite like you, we’re recruiting for a range of positions across the studio and we’re always happy to receive speculative applications via our website. Visit our Careers website to view all our live vacancies: Rebellion: Careers
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QA Manager
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Oversee & coordinate assigned QA program in support of customer accounts, functional accounts, or QA quality management system at a regional and/or global level. Provide support to management with insights, analyses and support in the assessment and promotion of compliance with regulations, guidelines, and operating procedures, risk identification and mitigation, quality, process, productivity/efficiency improvement initiatives . Manage the quality assurance oversight of projects, assignments, training and staff.
Essential Functions
- Provide guidance, interpretation, support, training, and key input to development groups for consultation and interpretation of regulations, guidelines, corporate standards, and policies.
- Oversee and participate in the documentation, reporting, and closure of compliance issues.
- Organize and deliver training to other IQVIA departments concerning the activities of Quality services, results of activities, quality initiatives, GXP etc.
- Ensure the follow-up of major and critical audit findings to ensure that appropriate actions have been taken and have adequately resolved the issues identified.
- Evaluate policies and procedures for compliance with applicable regulations/guidelines and provide recommendations to management for continuous process improvements.
- Serve as author of Quality Assurance Standard Operating Procedures ( SOPs) as assigned.
- Advise Quality Assurance management on system audit needs.
- Ensure the Quality Assurance database is maintained and up-to-date to reflect the status of audits being scheduled, auditor assignment and audit reporting and/or follow-up status.
- Host customer audits, mock regulatory inspections, and regulatory facility inspections as needed
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree Pref
- 7 years Quality Assurance experience in pharmaceutical, technical, or related area. Equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
- Commercial Patient Support experience is a must.
- Extensive knowledge of pharmaceutical research and development processes and regulatory environments.
- Considerable knowledge of quality assurance processes and procedures.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Excellent problem solving, risk analysis and negotiation skills.
- Exceptional training capabilities.
- Effective organization, communication, team orientation, and leadership skills.
- Ability to work independently with initiative.
- Ability to manage multiple projects.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with coworkers, managers and clients.
IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more
QA Manager
Posted 310 days ago
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We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION!
For 30 years we’ve been independently developing and publishing incredible video games at our multiple studios founded by Jason & Chris Kingsley, but Rebellion is more than just games. We have our own film and mo-cap studio, we create board games, publish books, and through 2000AD, publish comics and graphic novels such as the amazing Judge Dredd.
We are on the lookout for an experienced QA Manager to join our passionate team working on a variety of unannounced projects across the entire of Rebellion.
This is an opportunity to oversee and develop the QA approach for all of Rebellion’s products using strategic thinking and planning. You will play a key role providing expertise throughout the entire product development life cycle to senior stakeholders whilst leading the management and development of the QA team to ensure it can continuously provide QA of the highest standard.
This role is based at our riverside headquarters in Oxford, offering a creative and relaxed atmosphere where teamwork drives our success. We can provide a relocation package, including moving assistance, temporary accommodation, and full support to ensure a smooth transition to your new environment.
We believe in the power of face-to-face collaboration and encourage working from our Oxford headquarters. However, we understand that flexibility matters, so we’re open to discussing hybrid options based on individual needs.
Responsibilities :
- Leading and directing the QA leadership team by example, working to maintain morale and an atmosphere of enthusiasm.
- Proactively managing your team’s performance and professional development through performance review cycles giving constructive, actionable, relevant feedback.
- Coordinate with project stakeholders to direct internal QA resources.
- Coordinate with external partners across the globe.
- Be an escalation point for all matters related to testing & QA and operate as a primary point of contact for the QA teams.
- Participate in and develop strategy for interviews, induction, training, and staff development.
- Monitor, distribute, and make requests concerning hardware and software for the onsite QA team.
Requirements
- Demonstratable proven background of managing the function and direction of a QA teams in video game development.
- Able to provide regular direction, mentoring, and coaching to QA team members.
- Excellent knowledge of best practice people management.
- Expert understanding of game testing models, bug testing and tracking software (JIRA, Devtrack).
- Deep understanding of the video game development process.
- Strong ability to evaluate best course of action using data analyse and creative thinking.
- Able to balance resources, skills, priorities, and timescales to achieve objectives to stay resilient and flexible in changing environments.
Benefits
We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:
- 22 days holidays + Christmas closure (typically 4 days) & Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years – one day each year until you reach 31 days)
- Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision
- Life Assurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover
- Enhanced Family Leave
- Interest Free, Tax-Free loans
- Enhanced Pension Scheme
- EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
- Plus loads more… including a wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events!
Life at Our Oxford HQ
Our riverside headquarters in Oxford places you a short walk away from the city centre. Renowned for its rich historical backdrop and esteemed educational institutions, Oxford offers a unique blend of tradition and modernity, with its beautiful architecture and green spaces.
Oxford also boasts excellent transport links, making it easy to navigate both the city and the wider country. The city’s train station, just a short walk from our studio, offers frequent services to London, as well as direct routes to major cities like Birmingham, Manchester, and Reading and we also offer free parking at the studio.
Our open-plan office promotes teamwork and innovation, with regular interaction with senior management and other departments, alongside access to free hot drinks, a handy tuck shop onsite and a range of local pubs, cafes and dining options nearby helping make every workday enjoyable!
Inside Rebellion
Whichever team you join at Rebellion we are proud of our open, friendly, and creative atmosphere. We love what we do, and we have fun doing it! As a big indie developer, we have complete creative freedom over our titles which allows us to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms.
Find out more about us here
Our size, stability, and the variety of in-house expertise across multiple industries, makes Rebellion completely unique! We work in our own way, and we celebrate that as the key to our success. We foster an inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself, to express your creativity and your talent. We are people focused and will support you in every way to can be the best at what you do. We recognise the importance of enjoying what you do and having a healthy work-life balance. We offer a friendly, creative, and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and a wide variety of benefits and development opportunities for all our teams to ensure you are fully supported with your physical and Mental Well-being.
We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to add to our culture of growth and inclusion. Rebellion encourages innovation in all areas, and we look forward to hearing how you can help us to be better. We encourage all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neurodiversity and beyond, because a representative team makes better products.
If you are interested in working at Rebellion, but this role doesn’t sound quite like you, we’re recruiting for a range of positions across the studio and we’re always happy to receive speculative applications via our website. Visit our Careers website to view all our live vacancies: Rebellion: Careers
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