QA Release Consultant
Posted 1 day ago by TESTQ Technologies
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The QA & Release Consultant role focuses on ensuring high-quality technology changes for clients through effective release management and QA leadership. The position requires strong communication and stakeholder management skills to bridge engineering teams and client stakeholders. The consultant will advocate for risk-based testing and continuous improvement while managing deployment risks and facilitating release cycles. This role is critical in maintaining low-risk releases aligned with business priorities and minimizing customer disruption.
Key Responsibilities:
- Coordinate and govern end-to-end release cycles across environments.
- Facilitate release planning, readiness reviews, and go/no-go decisions.
- Manage deployment risks, rollback planning, and stakeholder communications.
- Work closely with DevOps and delivery teams to support CI/CD maturity.
- Advocate risk-based testing and continuous improvement in quality areas.
- Make and drive suggestions to improve our QA offering.
- Strong defect management experience.
- Manage the interface between different partners testing cycles.
- Act as a trusted advisor to client leadership on quality, risk, and release confidence.
- Translate technical risks into clear, business-focused messaging.
- Build strong relationships across IT, operations, and commercial stakeholders.
- Mediating between delivery pressures and quality standards.
- Challenge constructively and influence decision-making without escalation where possible.
- Maintain calm, credible leadership during high-pressure release windows.
- Understand peak trading constraints.
- Ensure releases align with trading calendars and minimise customer disruption.
Key Skills:
- Proven experience in QA leadership and release management.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and client-facing consultancy skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication; able to brief both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrable diplomacy, influencing, and conflict-resolution capability.
- Experience working with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery models.
- Knowledge of test management, defect lifecycle, and release governance practices.
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Role Overview: We are seeking a QA & Release Consultant to support our clients in delivering high-quality, customer-facing technology changes safely and efficiently. This role combines technical QA leadership with strong diplomacy, stakeholder communication, and client management. You will act as the bridge between engineering teams, delivery functions, and client stakeholders, ensuring releases are well-governed, low risk, and aligned to business priorities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Release Management:-
- · Coordinate and govern end-to-end release cycles across environments.
- · Facilitate release planning, readiness reviews, and go/no-go decisions.
- · Manage deployment risks, rollback planning, and stakeholder communications.
- · Work closely with DevOps and delivery teams to support CI/CD maturity.
- QA Strategy & Delivery:-
- · Advocate risk-based testing and continuous improvement in quality areas.
- · Make and drive suggestions to improve our QA offering
- · Strong defect management experience
- · Manage the interface between different partners testing cycles
- Client & Stakeholder Management:-
- · Act as a trusted advisor to client leadership on quality, risk, and release confidence.
- · Translate technical risks into clear, business-focused messaging.
- · Build strong relationships across IT, operations, and commercial stakeholders.
- · Mediate between delivery pressures and quality standards.
- · Challenge constructively and influence decision-making without escalation where possible.
- · Maintain calm, credible leadership during high-pressure release windows.
- · Understand peak trading constraints.
- · Ensure releases align with trading calendars and minimise customer disruption.
Skills & Experience:
- · Proven experience in QA leadership and release management.
- · Strong stakeholder engagement and client-facing consultancy skills.
- · Excellent written and verbal communication; able to brief both technical and non-technical audiences.
- · Demonstrable diplomacy, influencing, and conflict-resolution capability.
- · Experience working with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery models.
- · Knowledge of test management, defect lifecycle, and release governance practices.
- · Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices.
Success Measures:
- · Smooth, low-risk releases with minimal business disruption.
- · High stakeholder confidence in QA and release processes.
- · Clear, consistent communication across delivery and client teams.
- · Measurable improvements in test effectiveness and release maturity.