QA Manager / QA Practice Lead

Luxoft; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global consulting firm in the United Kingdom is seeking a QA Manager / Practice Lead to oversee quality assurance for large-scale modernization programs. The role involves defining QA frameworks, leading distributed teams, and collaborating during pre-sales to ensure successful client engagements. Candidates must have over 8 years in Quality Assurance with significant leadership experience in modernization initiatives.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Quality Assurance, with at least 3+ years in a QA Leadership or Practice Lead role.
• Proven record of leading QA for large-scale modernization or re-platforming programs.
• Expertise in automation frameworks (Java, Python, Golang) and CI/CD integration.

Responsibilities

• Define modernization-aligned QA frameworks and automation strategies.
• Partner with Solution Architects during pre-sales to shape QA scope.
• Act as QA solution owner across client engagements, ensuring scalable testing approaches.

Skills

Quality Assurance Leadership

Automation Frameworks

Commercial Acumen

Test Architecture Knowledge

Job description

Overview

DXC / Luxoft Modernization Practice is driving large-scale legacy transformation programs — re-platforming critical enterprise systems to modern architectures and cloud-native ecosystems. We are seeking a QA Manager / Practice Lead to oversee both pre-sales quality strategy and delivery assurance across modernization initiatives. The role combines solution leadership, client engagement, and hands-on governance of distributed QA streams.

Responsibilities

• Strategic QA Leadership — Define modernization-aligned QA frameworks, automation strategies, and quality gates for transformation programs.
• Pre-sales collaboration — Partner with Solution Architects and Delivery Leads during pre-sales to shape QA scope, estimates, and differentiators in proposals and RFPs.
• QA solution ownership — Act as QA solution owner across client engagements, ensuring testing approaches are risk-based, scalable, and automation-first.
• Continuous testing and analytics — Drive adoption of continuous testing, shift-left QA, and AI-assisted quality analytics across modernization streams.
• Executive governance — Represent the QA function in executive discussions, client governance boards, and internal modernization councils.
• Delivery management — Lead multi-project QA delivery spanning applications, data, APIs, and cloud migration.
• Team leadership — Manage distributed QA teams, ensuring quality consistency, knowledge sharing, and reuse of automation assets.
• Test strategy for modernization — Oversee the definition and implementation of modernization-specific test strategies (e.g., regression packs for refactored code, API-first validation, migration verification).
• Quality metrics — Define and track quality KPIs across modernization pipelines: defect density, automation coverage, velocity, and release readiness.
• Quality visibility — Establish quality dashboards and continuous improvement loops integrated with CI/CD pipelines.
• Practice & pre-sales enablement — Support RFP/RFI responses, client workshops, and proposal reviews with tailored QA strategy input.
• Accelerators — Build standardized QA accelerators for modernization engagements (framework templates, reusable test libraries, metrics dashboards).
• Tooling & AI accelerators — Evaluate and onboard modern QA tools and AI-powered accelerators (test generation, anomaly detection, quality prediction).
• Mentorship & governance — Mentor QA leads, develop internal playbooks, and establish delivery governance frameworks for modernization quality.

Must Have

• 8+ years in Quality Assurance, with at least 3+ years in a QA Leadership or Practice Lead role.
• Proven track record of leading QA for large-scale modernization, migration, or re-platforming programs.
• Expertise in automation frameworks (Java, Python, Golang, or equivalent) and CI/CD integration (GitHub, Jenkins, etc.).
• Solid understanding of test architecture, data migration validation, and system integration testing.
• Familiarity with modernization patterns (Strangler Fig, replatforming, re-hosting, containerization).
• Experience leading distributed, multi-vendor teams and managing client stakeholders.
• Strong commercial acumen — able to support pre-sales, estimation, and deal solutioning.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with executive presence.

Nice to Have

• Experience using GenAI / AI tools for automated test generation and predictive defect analytics.
• Knowledge of CAST, Tricentis, Testim, or similar modernization testing ecosystems.
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerized test environments.