Summary: The Senior Quality Assurance Manager role at a growing SaaS company involves driving the quality assurance strategy and overseeing the testing process across their platform. The position requires a combination of technical expertise and leadership to ensure high-quality software delivery. The successful candidate will collaborate with development and product teams to implement automation strategies and uphold industry best practices. This is a 6-month contract with the potential for extension, offering a day rate of up to £450 outside of IR35.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and evolve the overall QA strategy, ensuring alignment with industry best practices.
• Define and implement an Agile-driven QA process to enhance product quality and reliability.
• Establish test automation frameworks covering back-end and front-end components.
• Identify risks to software quality and prioritise testing efforts accordingly.
• Implement technical testing to validate system components, integrations, and platform configurations.
• Promote a culture of continuous testing within development teams by embedding automation into CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including development, product management, and service teams, to improve testing coverage.
• Define and manage the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) process for individual components and the platform as a whole.
• Monitor and track quality metrics such as defect rates, test coverage, and resolution times to assess QA effectiveness.
• Provide clear reporting on testing outcomes, analyse trends, and drive improvements in QA processes.
• Ensure all releases meet high-quality standards before deployment to production.

Key Skills:

• Strong leadership and communication skills, with experience mentoring QA teams.
• Proven ability to assess software risks, troubleshoot defects, and implement preventative strategies.
• Hands-on experience in designing and implementing multi-level automated testing frameworks.
• Experience working on distributed systems and testing third-party integrations.
• Ability to work closely with end-users to coordinate and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Knowledge of modern testing approaches, including containerisation for regression testing.
• Experience integrating performance testing into the development lifecycle using tools like K6 or Nbomber.
• Strong understanding of non-functional testing, including security and performance profiling.
• Hands-on experience with no-code automation tools (e.g., Reflect, Preflight) and robust frameworks like Cypress or Selenium.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, and test management tools such as JIRA.

Salary (Rate): 450

City: London

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT