Key Responsibilities
- Define and implement the testing and quality assurance strategy, with maturity roadmaps and quality metrics
- Build and lead testing teams across multiple programmes
- Set testing standards, methodologies and governance frameworks
- Oversee SIT, UAT, regression, performance, security and automation testing
- Run testing across Agile, Waterfall and hybrid delivery, with executive reporting on quality and risk
- Define quality gates and release readiness criteria, and ensure regulatory compliance
- Manage third-party vendors, system integrators and testing partners
- Promote test automation, CI/CD, shift-left and continuous testing, including AI-driven testing
What You Will Ideally Bring
- Explicit utility industry experience
- 12+ years in software testing and QA, with 5+ years in test management or leadership
- Proven delivery of enterprise-wide testing programmes
- Test strategy and governance, quality engineering, test automation, Agile, DevOps and risk-based testing
- Test management tools: Jira, Azure DevOps, HP ALM, qTest, Zephyr
- Automation: Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Tosca
- CI/CD (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and performance tools (LoadRunner, JMeter)
- Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)
- Experience managing distributed teams
- Strong stakeholder, vendor management, leadership and presentation skills
- AI-assisted testing and large-scale digital transformation experience (desirable)
Contract Details
- Duration: 12 months
- Day Rate: £600 per day
- Determination: Inside IR35
- Location: Hybrid, 2-3 days per week onsite, Reading
- Start Date: ASAP
Rate:
£600/day
Location:
Reading
IR35 Status:
Inside
Remote Status:
Hybrid
Industry:
IT
Seniority Level:
Senior