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Software Quality Assurance Manager

107995
Staverton, Gloucestershire, England
£55k - 65k per year
Permanent
Software Engineering

Job Title: Software Quality Assurance Manager
Job Type: Hybrid
Work Type: Fixed Term, 6 Months
Hours: 37 hrs/wk
Industry: Aerospace/Defence/Software
Job Location: Cheltenham
Salary: £55,000 to £65,000 per annum

Profile – Software Quality Assurance Manager

Our client is a leading provider of software, equipment and service solutions to technically challenging sectors around the globe.

Job Role – Software Quality Assurance Manager

Reporting to the Chief Product Officer the Software Quality Assurance Manager shall lead and continuously improve quality practices across the software development lifecycle. This role is responsible for defining quality standards, managing QA processes, and ensuring software releases meet functional, performance, and reliability expectations for a client-server architecture that uses a frontend desktop application and MS SQL backend, with REST API

Duties – Software Quality Assurance Manager

• Define and own the overall software quality strategy and roadmap
• Lead and mentor QA engineers and test specialists
• Promote a culture of quality, continuous improvement, and accountability
• Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to align quality goals with business objectives
• Establish and maintain QA processes to ISO 9001/27001, standards, and best practices Ensure test planning, execution, and reporting across multiple teams Oversee functional, regression, integration, system, and user acceptance testing Define release quality gates and go/no-go criteria
• Drive adoption and improvement of test automation frameworks
• Ensure appropriate coverage across integration, end-to-end, API, UI (including accessibility compliance assessment and reporting to WCAG, 508, and EU), performance, and security testing
• Select and manage QA tools and platforms
• Balance automated and exploratory testing approaches
• Establish design for testability development approach
• Define and track quality metrics (defect leakage, test coverage, release stability, MTTR)
• Analyze trends and root causes of defects
• Lead post-release reviews and process improvements
• Work closely with developers to shift quality left in the SDLC
• Partner with DevOps and release teams to integrate testing into MS DevOps CI/CD pipelines
• Support agile practices including Kanban, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives
• Act as the quality advocate in cross-functional discussions
• Own quality portion of release documentation
• Work closely with developers to shift quality left in the SDLC
• Partner with DevOps and release teams to integrate testing into MS DevOps CI/CD pipelines

Experience/Qualifications – Software Quality Assurance Manager

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• experience in software QA or quality engineering
• Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile/Scrum, and CI/CD practices
• Experience with manual and automated testing methodologies
• Experience with modern test automation tools (e.g., Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, SmartBear TestComplete, FlaUI, REST API testing tools, pentest tools, threat modelling, etc)

Candidates who are currently a Software Quality Manager, QA Manager, Quality Assurance Manager, Quality Engineering Manager, Head of Quality Engineering, Software Quality Lead/QA Lead, Test Manager and Engineering Quality Manager could be suitable for this role.

To make an application for this role please submit your CV to [email protected] or for more information call 01453829529.

For details of other opportunities available within your chose field please visit our website www.omegaresource.co.uk

Omega is an employment agency specialising in opportunities at all levels within the Engineering, Manufacturing, Aerospace, Automotive, Electronics, Defence, Scientific, Energy & Renewables and Tech sectors.

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