Delivery-Driven QA Manager — Lead UAT & Releases

La Fosse; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26% pension

Private Med

Discretionary bonus

Job summary

La Fosse is seeking a hands-on QA Manager in Greater London to lead a testing team while staying close to delivery. You will direct day-to-day QA, guide UAT, and ensure releases move smoothly into production.

With responsibility for coordinating test plans and governance in an Agile setup, you’ll mentor QA engineers, manage dependencies, and drive practical, near-term quality improvements across engineering, product and business teams.

Qualifications

• Hands-on QA Manager with day-to-day delivery responsibility.
• Proven track record managing testers in Agile environments.
• Experience in UAT and end-to-end testing.
• Ability to remove blockers and guide releases.
• Knowledge of data, API and backend testing.

Responsibilities

• Own and coordinate day-to-day QA and testing delivery.
• Review test scope, test plans, coverage and approach for each release.
• Lead across UAT and acceptance with business users to guide processes.
• Manage testing lifecycle end-to-end from planning to production release.
• Provide hands-on leadership to QA/Test Engineers without executing tests personally.
• Unblock testers by addressing environment, security, infrastructure or capacity issues.

Skills

QA Management

Test Planning

UAT Leadership

End-to-End Testing

People Management

Agile Delivery

Test Automation Oversight

API/Backend Testing

Tools

Automation Frameworks

API Testing Tools

Job description

La Fosse is seeking a hands-on QA Manager in Greater London to lead a testing team while staying close to delivery. You will direct day-to-day QA, guide UAT, and ensure releases move smoothly into production.

With responsibility for coordinating test plans and governance in an Agile setup, you’ll mentor QA engineers, manage dependencies, and drive practical, near-term quality improvements across engineering, product and business teams.