Senior Quality Assurance Manager

SEFE Energy UK; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

SEFE Energy UK is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Manager to oversee the QA process, ensuring software meets high standards. This role involves strategic planning, team management, and process improvement, contributing to the company's mission of securing energy supply across Europe. The ideal candidate will have extensive QA experience and strong leadership skills, with a competitive salary and benefits.

Benefits

Bonus earning potential

Non-contributory pension with 10% employer contribution

25 days holiday plus bank holidays and volunteering days

Buy / sell holidays

Life assurance

Medical and dental insurance (family cover)

Range of optional flexible benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in establishing and managing QA in an organization.
• Strong understanding of software development and testing methodologies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Direct the ongoing advancement of test management strategies.
• Define and enforce test management standards and guidelines.
• Investigate testing incidents to determine causes and implement preventive measures.

Skills

Strategic Planning

Team Management

Process Improvement

Communication

Budget Management

Education

ISTQB Certification

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IN SHORT

A Quality Assurance (QA) Manager oversees the entire QA process, ensuring that the software or product meets the highest quality standards before it reaches the customer. This role involves strategic planning, team management, process improvement, and ensuring compliance with industry standards.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Strategic Test Management Development: Direct the ongoing advancement of test management strategies to improve both manual and automated testing processes.
• Standardisation and Guidelines Formulation: Define and enforce test management standards and guidelines to ensure consistent quality and alignment with best practices.
• Quality Assessment and Oversight: Assess and oversee the quality of test management across the software lifecycle, utilizing metrics for performance evaluation.
• Training and Consultation: Offer expertise and training to key personnel to elevate software test management practices organisation-wide.
• Incident Analysis and Preventive Action: Investigate testing incidents to determine causes and implement preventive measures for continuous test management improvement.
• Continuous Improvement Identification: Actively seek and implement enhancements in test management, advocating for innovative tools and methodologies.
• Automation and Tool Integration: Lead the adaption of automated testing and test management tools, facilitating a shift towards a software-centric testing approach.

WHAT YOU WILL BRING

Professional Experience

Experience in establishing and manging QA in an organisation. ISTQB Guru.

Skills and Competencies

• Developing long-term plans for quality assurance, including setting goals and determining the resources required to achieve them.
• A strong understanding of software development, testing methodologies, and automation tools.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to liaise with team members, stakeholders, and upper management.
• Managing the QA budget, ensuring resources are used efficiently.
• Familiarity with industry-specific regulations and standards.
• Overseeing relationships with third-party vendors or service providers related to QA.

ABOUT US

Securing Energy for Europe – it’s a simple statement, with a bold ambition. SEFE is not just our name, but also encompasses everything that drives us. To accomplish this, we’re taking immediate action to secure gas supply – but also looking forward, to explore our role in the European energy transformation and how we can contribute to a stable and sustainable future.

SEFE, an international energy company, ensures the security of supply and drives the decarbonisation of its customers. SEFE’s activities span the energy value chain, from origination and trading to sales, transport, and storage. Through its decades-long expertise in trading and the development of its LNG business, SEFE has become one of the most important suppliers to industrial customers in Europe, with an annual sales volume of 200 TWh of gas and power. Its 50,000 customers range from small businesses to municipalities and multinational organisations. By investing in clean energies and especially in the hydrogen ecosystem, SEFE is contributing to the energy transition. The company employs around 2,000 people globally and is owned by the Federal Government of Germany.

Our international teams work across locations in Europe, Asia, and North America. We’re passionate about energy and the important role it can play in shaping a better future.

Securing energy – now and for the future.

OUR BENEFITS

We’re committed to creating an inclusive environment that embraces diversity and fosters the development of knowledge, skills, and experience. Whatever your role, you’ll find an open, welcoming atmosphere that empowers you, and recognises your contribution.

In return we offer a competitive starting salary supported by a comprehensive range of financial, lifestyle and wellness benefits with the flexibility to follow a hybrid working model.

• bonus earning potential
• non-contributory pension with 10% employer contribution
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and volunteering days
• buy / sell holidays
• life assurance
• medical and dental insurance (family cover)
• range of optional flexible benefits

We are committed to supporting your career growth with opportunities to develop both your knowledge and experience through a blended approach to learning.

Join SEFE and help us secure energy supply across Europe and shape a better, more sustainable tomorrow.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Oil and Gas

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