QA Lead

Correla; Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Locate for your day

Uncapped annual leave

5-10% Pension Contribution

Private Healthcare

Up to 26 weeks’ full pay equal parent

Wellbeing Services

And more!

Job summary

Correla is seeking a Quality Assurance Lead to guide quality across the delivery lifecycle from planning through delivery. You will lead, mentor and develop the QA team while collaborating with product managers and developers to ensure high-quality SaaS offerings.

The role focuses on automation and proactive quality practices within a fast-paced environment. The successful candidate will promote a culture of quality, risk-aware decision making and continuous improvement to improve product

Qualifications

• Experience leading QA teams across delivery lifecycles.
• Ability to challenge incomplete/ambiguous requirements.
• Strong understanding of QA principles and Agile delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead quality engagement across the delivery lifecycle.
• Coach and develop QA team members.
• Define and oversee quality activities for products.
• Drive automation adoption and tooling improvements.
• Collaborate with developers, PMs and stakeholders on quality.

Skills

Quality leadership

People leadership

Strategic thinking

Agile delivery

Quality engineering

Communication

Tools

Automation tooling

QA frameworks

Job description

Discipline: Standard

Job type: Permanent

Job ref: 010523

Published: about 2 months ago

Correla is looking for a Quality Assurance Lead to join our team.

Salary: circa £51,000 (advertised salary achievable for a candidate fulfilling all role criteria)

Job Type: Permanent

About Us

In March 2021, Correla was created, as an independently owned business to bring in private investment to fuel innovation in the centre of the energy market and beyond.

Correla is derived from correlation, because we’re all about exploring and enhancing relationships between data, people, and processes. Our SaaS products and Managed Service solutions combine to power industry innovation, simplify an increasingly complex market, and deliver cost and operational efficiencies.

Our goal is to support industry transformation, to move to a net-zero future and to positively impact the end-consumer.

About the Role

• Quality Leadership and Early Engagement: Lead quality engagement throughout the delivery lifecycle, ensuring quality considerations are understood and addressed from the earliest stages of delivery. Facilitate quality discussions during refinement and planning activities, challenge requirements that are incomplete, ambiguous or introduce unnecessary risk, and promote a proactive approach to quality across the team.
• People Leadership and Development: Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching and mentoring to QA team members. Support objective setting, career development and capability growth, helping individuals develop their skills and achieve their potential whilst fostering a positive and collaborative team culture.
• Quality Planning and Delivery: Define and oversee quality activities across the product, contributing directly to testing and quality validation activities whilst ensuring appropriate coverage, risk mitigation and delivery outcomes. Balance delivery priorities, quality objectives and available resources to support successful delivery.
• Quality Engineering and Technical Leadership: Lead the adoption and continuous improvement of automation approaches, tooling and quality engineering practices. Support the team in developing and maintaining effective automation that provides efficient, reliable and sustainable quality validation throughout the development lifecycle.
• Collaboration and Continuous Improvement: Work closely with developers, product managers, stakeholders and end users to promote a culture of quality and continuous improvement. Identify opportunities to improve products, processes and ways of working, helping drive improvements that enhance quality, delivery effectiveness and customer outcomes.
• Quality Risk Management: Assess, communicate and help manage quality risks throughout delivery. Provide clear and balanced recommendations that support informed decision-making, ensuring quality considerations are understood and appropriately addressed.

About You

• Quality Leadership: Champions quality across the product and team, helping others understand how quality is achieved through collaboration, continuous improvement and shared responsibility rather than testing alone.
• People Leadership and Coaching: Able to lead, support and develop individuals and teams through effective coaching, mentoring, feedback. Creates an environment where people can learn, grow and succeed.
• Strategic and Analytical Thinking: Able to understand complex systems, delivery challenges and quality risks, considering both immediate and longer-term impacts when making decisions or providing guidance.
• Understanding of Software Engineering Practices: Demonstrates a strong understanding of software development, quality assurance principles, Agile delivery approaches and modern engineering practices. Able to apply this knowledge to support effective delivery and quality outcomes.
• Technical Curiosity and Awareness: Maintains a strong interest in technology and quality engineering practices, with a good understanding of how software systems, infrastructure and networks interact. Encourages the team to continually develop technical knowledge and capability.
• Communication and Influence: Communicates effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, providing clear guidance, challenging constructively when required and influencing decisions through evidence and experience.
• Continuous Improvement: Actively seeks opportunities to improve quality, delivery effectiveness and team capability. Encourages experimentation, learning and the adoption of better ways of working.

What We Offer

• Locate for your day
• Uncapped annual leave
• 5-10% Pension Contribution
• Private Healthcare
• Up to 26 weeks’ full pay equal parent leave
• Wellbeing Services
• And more!

At Correla, we are committed to working towards being a more diverse and inclusive workplace where our people can truly be themselves. We recognise the benefits of having talented people from a range of backgrounds and cultures who bring different perspectives, life experiences and diversity of thinking.

Our aim is to attract and retain the very best diverse talent to help create an exciting, innovative, and successful business that enables us to deliver an exceptional experience for our customers. We would therefore like to encourage applications from people with varied skillsets and experience and from different backgrounds and sectors to help shape our future.

Correla is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We believe in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group, ancestry, place of origin, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, gender re‑assignment, age, record of offences, marital/civil partnership status, family status, pregnancy, maternity and paternity, religion/belief or disability. We promise that your opportunity for employment with us depends solely on your qualifications and relevant experience.