Portfolio - QA Manager

Whitbread; Dunstable; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a QA Manager where you'll ensure system reliability through testing and maintenance of technology platforms. Collaborate with teams to drive innovation, resolve performance issues, and enhance security compliance in a hybrid working environment that values flexibility.

Benefits

Annual incentive: up to 20%

Up to 10% matched pension

Discounts on Premier Inn stays

Discounts at Restaurant brands

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge in managing infrastructure/security testing.
• Experience in automating testing processes.
• Proven capability in developing QA strategies and team leadership.

Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, and maintaining testing platforms.
• Identifying and reporting vulnerabilities in systems.
• Managing a team of testers for clarity in responsibilities.

Skills

Infrastructure Testing

Security Testing

Automation

Performance Testing

Leadership

API Security

Tools

Selenium

Appium

Cypress

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

GitLab

Job description

Our Infrastructure and Security Delivery Technology team focuses on building, testing, and maintaining technology platforms, products, and services to keep our systems running smoothly and performing well.

As a QA Manager, you'll work closely with teams to achieve excellent results. You'll be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and maintaining these platforms, products, and services. Your role will ensure our systems are reliable, high-performing, and continuously improving to meet evolving business needs.

Role: QA Manager

Salary: Starting From £60,000 Per Annum

Contract Type: Full-Time and Permanent

Location: Whitbread Court, Dunstable, with a hybrid working model requiring a minimum of 3 days in the office.

Why You’ll Love It Here

• Annual incentive: up to 20%
• Up to 10% matched pension
• Up to 60% discount on Premier Inn stays and 25% discount on our Restaurant brand

What you’ll be doing:

You’ll drive innovation, monitor system health, resolve performance issues, and optimize technology investments. Leveraging your technical expertise and collaboration skills, you will deliver high-quality solutions aligned with strategic goals, enabling business success.

You will develop and execute test plans for infrastructure, security, and EUC environments, performing functional, performance, and security testing of IT systems and applications. You will identify and report vulnerabilities, ensuring compliance with security policies. Additionally, you will validate end-user computing solutions, including desktops, laptops, and virtual environments, automate testing processes where applicable, collaborate with IT and security teams to enhance system resilience, and manage a team of testers to ensure clarity in responsibilities and deliverables.

What you’ll need:

• Extensive knowledge and experience in managing infrastructure/security testing and compliance validation, including proficiency in penetration testing and vulnerability scanning to identify and mitigate risks.
• A thorough understanding of industry standards and regulatory frameworks, ensuring effective implementation and continuous assessment of infrastructure security controls.
• Experience in automating infrastructure testing, with a strong grasp of CI/CD security testing practices using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or GitLab.
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure and security testing across various platforms, along with expertise in API security best practices.
• Proficiency in performance and load testing, monitoring system health with observability platforms, and conducting disaster recovery, failover, and resilience testing. Experience in incident response management is also required.
• Proven capability in developing end-to-end QA strategies for digital services, infrastructure, networks, and software applications, along with leadership and mentorship of QA teams fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Experience with automated testing tools such as Selenium, Appium, and Cypress.

Join Our Technology Team at Whitbread

Our collaborative and passionate technology team builds products and services used by 38,000 colleagues and millions of guests. Our work includes managing an eCommerce platform handling £2 billion annually, scalable applications across 1,200 hotels and restaurants, innovative devices for seamless guest and team experiences, all while ensuring data security.