Quality Engineering Leader — Test Strategy & Automation

Jobtailor; Pocklington; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in the United Kingdom is seeking a Test Manager to lead software testing and quality assurance across projects, shaping testing strategy and standards.

You will drive modern testing and automation, ensure coverage across functional and non-functional areas, and align testing with sprint goals and releases.

As a people leader you will mentor the team, manage workloads and metrics, and communicate progress and risks to stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading software testing or quality assurance teams.
• Strong leadership, coaching and people management skills.
• Ability to develop and maintain a collaborative, high-performing testing function.
• Strong understanding of modern software testing methodologies and QA practices.
• Experience across manual, automated, functional, non-functional and regression testing.
• Experience developing testing strategies, standards and quality frameworks.
• ISTQB Test Manager Certification is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve testing strategy in line with business objectives.
• Promote a quality-first approach across the software development lifecycle.
• Drive adoption of modern testing, automation and quality engineering practices.
• Improve testing standards, processes and methodologies.
• Ensure quality from requirements through deployment and support.
• Oversee test planning, execution and reporting across projects.
• Align testing with sprint goals, delivery priorities and release schedules.
• Maintain test coverage across functional and non-functional testing.
• Support post-release validation and feedback into future development.
• Lead, mentor and develop the testing team.
• Conduct performance reviews, coaching and development discussions.
• Support training, mentoring, recruitment, onboarding and workforce planning.
• Define and maintain automated testing standards.
• Improve unit, integration, regression and end-to-end test coverage.
• Support automated testing integration into CI/CD pipelines.
• Build relationships with technical and business stakeholders.
• Communicate testing progress, quality metrics, risks and release readiness.
• Identify quality risks and implement mitigation strategies.
• Oversee defect management, prioritisation and resolution.
• Analyse quality trends and lessons learned.

Skills

Leadership Skills

Test Automation Strategies

Quality Assurance Practices

Agile Delivery Experience

ISTQB Test Manager Certification

Education

ISTQB Test Manager Certification

BPSS Check

Tools

CI/CD Tools

Automated Testing Frameworks

Quality Reporting Tools

Job description

Jobtailor in the United Kingdom is seeking a Test Manager to lead software testing and quality assurance across projects, shaping testing strategy and standards.

You will drive modern testing and automation, ensure coverage across functional and non-functional areas, and align testing with sprint goals and releases.

As a people leader you will mentor the team, manage workloads and metrics, and communicate progress and risks to stakeholders.