Head of Quality Engineering

Expleo; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental insurance

Pension

Life assurance

Employee wellbeing programme

Job summary

Expleo Ireland is seeking a Head of Quality Engineering to lead and shape the Quality Solutions Unit within our senior management team. You will drive strategy, client delivery, and talent management across multiple locations, ensuring delivery excellence and value for clients.

You will oversee programme delivery, business development, and innovation, partnering with C-Level stakeholders and sales teams to grow our Quality Engineering services and maintain market leadership in Automation,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field.
• ISTQB or equivalent qualification in testing disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Service Leadership – set strategy and delivery for Quality Engineering across sectors.
• Programme Delivery – oversee multi-location teams and modern delivery methods.
• Business Development – grow revenue via new services and client opportunities.
• Innovation & Thought Leadership – ensure best-in-class solutions aligned with client demand.
• Talent & Resource Management – manage consultants, budgets, and career development.
• Stakeholder Management – engage with internal and C-level stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Strategy development

Business Development

Pre-Sales

Delivery management

Quality Engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS

ISTQB or equivalent

Tools

CI/CD tooling

DevOps practices

Automation tools

Job description

Overview

Expleo is a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting for digital transformation. We help businesses harness unrelenting technological change to successfully deliver innovations that will help them gain a competitive advantage and improve the everyday lives of people around the globe. We operate in over 25 countries.

The Head of Quality Engineering role sits within the Expleo Ireland Senior Management Team and heads up a key Business Unit within the company, overseeing all aspects of consultancy and service delivery to our clients.

The successful candidate will have the freedom to make their own decisions and will have direct input into how the practice is shaped and managed. They will help to define the areas in which investment is required to support the continuous development of client solutions and will ensure the successful Recruitment and Resourcing of consultants within the Quality Solutions Unit.

This role reports to the Director of Quality Solutions and will work closely with the Expleo Ireland Commercial Directors, Managing Directors, Delivery Management Team and Heads of Service of other business units.

Responsibilities

• Service Leadership - In collaboration with the Director of Quality Solutions, setting out the strategy and Service Offering for this sector and driving execution of these plans.

• Programme Delivery - Providing oversight for the delivery of services to our clients covering modern delivery methodologies incorporating multiple teams working across multiple locations relevant to the Quality Engineering service offering.

• Business Development - Identifying opportunities to grow our revenue streams with new or existing clients via innovation/new services/new solutions, working closely with our Sales Directors, Bid Manager and Director of Operations. Plays a key role in the pre-sales / tendering process.

• Innovation & Thought Leadership - Ensuring the company remains best in class and that solutions are fit for purpose and in line with client demand and the company's long-term strategy.

• Talent Management - Directly or through others, spearheading the operational and career management for all consultants in the Business Unit, including the training budget.

• Resource Management - Managing budgets and resources to ensure we can deliver to the changing needs of clients, including cost control, awareness of margins and ensuring return on investments. Ensures there is an appropriate number of suitably skilled and experienced delivery consultants for Quality Engineering, taking account of current and forecast demand, industry trends and staff turnover.

• Stakeholder Management - Acting as a leader, influencer and motivator when dealing with internal or external stakeholders including C-Level stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience

• ISTQB, equivalent qualifications, or certification in relevant disciplines

Desired skills

• Ideally an experienced Senior Manager / Head of level with an IT product, technology or services company.

• Potentially you have / are working in a consultancy or client facing capacity in a leadership role.

• Business Development and pre-sales experience

Experience

• Experience in managing and delivering in a multifaceted role at Senior Management/Head of Function level.

• Experience in delivering technical solutions covering Automation, Performance and Non-Functional Testing including Test Environment Management, Security Testing, CI/CD & DevOps.

• Experience in industry leading technologies and bleeding edge technologies such as AI/ML, Data, Cloud.

• Experience in successful delivery utilising multiple methodologies (development & testing), frameworks, tools, and techniques across the above technical solution offerings.

• Experience of operating successfully and influencing at C Suite level.

• Experience writing tender responses covering Quality Engineering capabilities & solutions.

• You have demonstratable experience in Business Development and Pre-Sales.

• You have a minimum of 3+ years’ experience in a similar Head Of role.

• You have experience with complex IT Programme Delivery.

• You have experience driving large Quality Engineering & Technical programmes.

• You have demonstrable expertise as a Thought Leader within Quality Engineering.

Benefits

At Expleo, we are committed to providing a competitive salary and a substantial benefits offering with unique wellbeing, financial and employee recognition programmes.

We pride ourselves on our diverse and inclusive culture and offer a variety of family friendly policies and enhanced leave to help our you achieve a healthy work life balance.

By providing significant learning and development opportunities, we encourage individual growth and success throughout your career with us.

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ours peers 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
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more!
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and question the status quo.

“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”.

At Expleo, we understand that many people experience impostor syndrome throughout their lifetime, please do not let this discourage you from applying for this role. Our Talent Acquisition Team welcomes all CV’s and will consider your application in line with the values, requirements and role competencies.