Lead QAT Delivery Owner

Role: Lead QAT Delivery Owner

Job type: Full time

Job location: Telford, UK (Hybrid)

Job Spec:

Own the end-to-end QAT delivery for one or more programs/products, ensuring right-sized quality strategies, risk-based test approaches, automation adoption, and on-time, high-quality releases.

Responsibilities

1. Develop and maintain quality approaches tailored to each programme or product, ensuring clarity and alignment across teams.
2. Work with engineering, architecture, and product leads to anticipate risks early and influence design choices that improve testability and reliability.
3. Consistently advocate for quality as a shared responsibility across the delivery life cycle.
4. Serve as the senior quality advisor, helping teams interpret expectations, choose appropriate methods, and overcome delivery challenges.
5. Provide mentorship to QAT engineers, automation specialists, and cross functional squad members.
6. Facilitate continuous improvement conversations grounded in data and practical constraints.
7. Shape or validate test strategies ensuring comprehensive functional, non-functional, and process coverage.
8. Review team test artefacts (test plans, automation frameworks, performance strategies) to ensure they are robust and aligned to organisational expectations.
9. Lead release readiness assessments, ensuring coverage, defects, risks, and compliance are fully understood prior to go live.
10. Conduct or coordinate formal quality reviews, assessments, or audits across teams or vendor partners.
11. Identify gaps in processes, trace root causes, and recommend corrective actions that can be adopted sustainably.
12. Verify effectiveness of corrective actions and support compliance with standards and governance requirements.
13. Promote consistent and effective use of testing and quality tools (automation frameworks, CI/CD integrations, analytics dashboards).
14. Support teams in adopting, improving, and optimising test environments, datasets, and toolchains.
15. Provide practical training, playbooks, or reusable patterns to help teams embed good practices.
16. Deliver reporting that highlights insights, not just metrics, enabling leaders to understand quality trends and make informed decisions.
17. Communicate risks and issues clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
18. Shine a light on systemic challenges that require cross team or organisational action.

Qualification & Technical Skills:

• Bachelor's degree (or Masters) in Computer Science or related field.
• 12-16 years of experience in managing testing of mobile apps, Web application, Test Automation, integration layer/APIs and Database
• Experience leading quality strategy across multiple squads or programmes simultaneously.
• Experience interacting with internal audits, compliance reviews, or regulated delivery environments.
• 5+ years of Banking Domain exposure, loan origination etc.
• Knowledge of DevOps, Agile processes and associated tools
• Very good knowledge in Software Testing life cycle, Defect processes, Triaging and Test tools
• Proven experience deploying enterprise automation, DevOps, Cloud, and CI/CD QE ecosystems.
• Expertise in regulatory, compliance, operational risk management and audit collaboration.
• Possess relevant certifications like ISTQB, CSTE, ISEB etc. to complement experience.