Quality Engineering Manager

La Fosse; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 72,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Private medical insurance

Job summary

La Fosse has partnered with a financial services organisation to recruit an experienced Quality Assurance Manager into an established team. This role will define and oversee the overall testing strategy across a complex lending platform, with a strong focus on customer journeys and business outcomes.

The successful candidate will be a strong stakeholder manager, capable of building relationships across both business and technology functions, driving quality standards, and ensuring successful

Qualifications

• Experience defining and overseeing testing strategies for complex, customer-facing platforms.
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to drive business buy-in.
• End-to-end testing ownership across full delivery lifecycles.
• Understanding of customer journeys, ideally in lending/financial services.
• Experience in Agile environments with sprint-based delivery.
• Hands-on Azure DevOps for test management and defect tracking.
• Coordinate testing across business, technology and third parties.
• Governance, planning and defect management experience.
• Experience with outsourced automation testing providers.
• Excellent communication and leadership within complex delivery environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and oversee the overall testing strategy across the platform.
• Lead testing activities to ensure quality standards are met.
• Manage stakeholders and secure business buy-in across functions.
• Coordinate testing across business, technology and third-party teams.
• Ensure delivery milestones are met with strong defect governance.

Skills

Quality testing strategy

Stakeholder management

End-to-end testing

Customer journeys

Agile delivery

Test governance

Outsourced automation coordination

Communication skills

Leadership

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

Quality Engineering Manager - £80,000 - Hybrid (London 2-3 days per week)

• Compensation: 26% pension + private medical insurance

Please note: This role requires candidates to be able to commute into the office 2-3 days per week in London and does not offer sponsorship. Candidates must have the full right to work in the UK.

La Fosse has partnered with a financial services organisation to recruit an experienced Quality Assurance Manager into an established team.

This role will be responsible for defining and overseeing the overall testing strategy across a complex lending platform, with a strong focus on customer journeys and business outcomes.

The successful candidate will be a strong stakeholder manager, capable of building relationships across both business and technology functions, driving quality standards, and ensuring successful delivery throughout the testing cycle.

Key requirements:

• Experience leading testing across complex, customer-facing platforms.
• Strong stakeholder management with the ability to build relationships and gain business buy-in.
• Experience owning end-to-end testing across full delivery lifecycles.
• Understanding of customer journeys, ideally within lending or financial services.
• Experience working in Agile environments with sprint-based delivery.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps for test management and defect tracking.
• Ability to coordinate testing across business, technology, and third-party teams.
• Strong test governance, planning, and defect management experience.
• Experience working alongside outsourced automation testing providers.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills within complex delivery environments.

Interview process: 3 stages