Head of Testing

Queen Square Recruitment Ltd; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 13.745.000 - 14.391.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Queen Square Recruitment Ltd is seeking an experienced Head of Testing to lead testing and QA across large-scale digital transformation programmes in the Utilities sector. This strategic role focuses on defining testing standards, driving quality engineering, and ensuring successful delivery across complex enterprise environments.

The role requires hands-on leadership of distributed testing teams, governance, and strong stakeholder management.

Qualifikationen

• Proven experience leading testing/QA functions at scale.
• Experience delivering large digital transformation programmes.
• Strong knowledge of testing standards, governance and metrics.

Aufgaben

• Define and deliver the overall testing and QA strategy.
• Lead and develop testing teams across multiple programmes.
• Establish test governance, quality standards, metrics, and reporting.
• Oversee SIT, UAT, regression, performance, security, and automation testing.
• Drive test automation, CI/CD adoption, DevOps and continuous testing practices.
• Manage senior stakeholder relationships, vendors, and executive reporting.
• Ensure release readiness, risk management and quality across deliveries.

Kenntnisse

Test leadership

Quality engineering

Test automation

Stakeholder management

Jobbeschreibung

6-Month Contract | £580 per day (Inside IR35) | Reading (Hybrid, 2-3 days onsite) | ASAP Start

We’re looking for an experienced Head of Testing to lead the testing and QA function across large-scale digital transformation programmes within the Utilities sector. This is a strategic leadership role focused on defining testing standards, driving quality engineering best practices, and ensuring successful delivery across complex enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the overall testing and quality assurance strategy.
• Lead and develop high-performing testing teams across multiple programmes.
• Establish test governance, quality standards, metrics, and reporting.
• Oversee SIT, UAT, regression, performance, security, and automation testing.
• Drive test automation, CI/CD adoption, DevOps, and continuous testing practices.
• Manage senior stakeholder relationships, vendors, and executive reporting.
• Ensure release readiness, risk management, and quality assurance across all deliveries.
• Proven experience as a Head of Testing, Test Director, or Senior Test Manager.
• Strong background delivering enterprise-wide testing programmes within the Utilities industry.
• Extensive experience in Test Strategy, Governance, Quality Engineering, and Test Automation.
• Experience leading distributed testing teams across Agile and hybrid delivery environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive-level communication skills.

Technical Environment

If you’re an experienced testing leader with a strong Utilities background and a track record of leading large-scale transformation programmes, we’d love to hear from you.