QE Governance Lead

Expleo; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Expleo seeks a QE Governance Lead to provide independent quality governance, risk assurance, and release oversight across the Technology Transformation portfolio. You will establish QE standards, policies, quality gates, metrics, and controls to ensure auditable and risk-managed delivery across programmes and technology domains.

Lead quality health checks, assurance reviews, and governance forums, and collaborate with Programme Leads and Architects to drive quality maturity and reporting to

Qualifications

• Experience governing large transformation portfolios and complex programmes.
• Strong understanding of QE, automation-first testing, and governance.
• Excellent stakeholder management and leadership capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Own the Unified Master Test Strategy and governance frameworks.
• Establish quality gates, risk controls, and release governance.
• Provide independent QA oversight across transformation initiatives.

Skills

Quality governance

Executive stakeholder management

Leadership capabilities

Communication skills

Tools

Playwright

CI/CD tooling

AI-assisted testing

Test automation frameworks

Job description

Overview

The QE Governance Lead provides independent quality governance, risk assurance, and release oversight across the Technology Transformation portfolio. This role establishes and governs portfolio-wide QE standards, policies, quality gates, metrics, and controls to ensure consistent, auditable, and risk-managed delivery across all transformation programmes and technology domains.

Responsibilities

• Own the Unified Master Test Strategy, quality engineering standards, policies, and governance frameworks.
• Establish quality gates, risk controls, and release governance across programmes and delivery portfolios.
• Ensure traceability, auditability, and compliance throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Provide independent quality assurance oversight across transformation and technology initiatives.
• Review and challenge programme test strategies, coverage models, quality risks, and readiness assessments.
• Lead quality health checks, assurance reviews, and governance forums.
• Support executive Go/No-Go decisions through risk-based quality reporting and assurance recommendations.
• Define portfolio-wide QE KPIs, dashboards, and reporting standards.
• Govern measures including defect leakage, test effectiveness, automation coverage, release confidence, and production quality.
• Deliver quality reporting and insights to senior stakeholders, programme leadership teams, and governance forums.
• Govern testing practices across functional, integration, end-to-end, data, AI, and non-functional testing disciplines.
• Ensure consistent defect management, root cause analysis, quality controls, and governance compliance.
• Maintain alignment across Agile, Product-led, Hybrid, and traditional delivery models.

• Own Quality Engineering strategy and governance across a diverse technology landscape, including:

  • Digital Customer Experience Platforms
  • Low-Code Development Platforms
  • Enterprise Business Applications
  • CRM and Business Process Platforms
  • Data & Analytics Solutions
  • Cloud-Based Platforms and Services
  • SQL and Data Management Technologies
  • AI and Intelligent Product Ecosystems
  • Business Intelligence and Reporting Platforms
  • API and Integration Platforms
  • Event-Driven Architectures
  • Machine Learning Solutions
  • Intelligent Workflow and Decisioning Platforms
• Partner with Programme Leads, Product Managers, Architects, Delivery Managers, and Quality Leadership teams.
• Govern supplier quality performance, testing obligations, and delivery assurance activities.
• Drive consistent adoption of Quality Engineering standards, governance frameworks, and best practices across programmes.
• Drive quality maturity, standardisation, and governance improvements across the portfolio.
• Establish reusable templates, frameworks, dashboards, and assurance artefacts.
• Promote automation-first, continuous testing, and AI-enabled quality practices.
• Support the development and growth of Quality Engineering Communities of Practice and Centres of Excellence.

Essential skills

• Proven experience governing large-scale transformation portfolios and complex programmes.
• Strong understanding of Quality Engineering, automation-first, continuous testing, risk-based testing, governance, and release assurance.
• Strong executive stakeholder management, supplier governance, and influencing skills.
• Excellent communication, governance, and leadership capabilities.

Experience

• Experience working across diverse technology landscapes including OutSystems, D365, Power Platform, GCP Data & AI, Azure API Platforms.
• Technical awareness of TypeScript, JavaScript, C#, Python, Pytest, SQL, Playwright, API testing, CI/CD, DevOps, and AI-assisted testing
• Experience operating within regulated, risk-sensitive environments

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment - we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ourpeers through good times and challenges
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• ExpleoAcademy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo
• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
  • Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
  • Communicating and promoting vacancies
  • Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
  • Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
  • Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”.

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive