Quality Engineering Team Lead

Our QA team is responsible for providing quality assurance to our SaaS based platform used by our clients across the globe. Working in collaboration with the development teams, they conduct functional, performance, regression, and automated testing of all the new features for the upcoming releases on our platform. Working alongside the delivery team in an agile methodology, the QA team ensures the releases are delivered in a timely fashion with high quality. We have embarked on a journey of embedding quality as a culture, to ensure and sustainably develop quality not just within the organisation but with our clients. If you have an eye for detail and love ensuring high-quality products, then this role is for you!

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Reporting to our Technical QA Manager, we are looking to hire a client-focused, smart and commercially savvy Client Delivery QA Team Lead to join our team and help drive the growth of INSTANDA.

You will be an SME in Testing, providing direction and leadership not just at a scrum team level, but with stakeholders across multiple areas or projects. The role combines client-facing responsibilities, hands-on testing and offshore team management activities to support and guide testing across multiple Client Delivery teams.

This opportunity is ideal for someone who has recently stepped into a team lead role, or a senior QE who is ready for the next step in their career.

This role isUK based, primarily remote working with some travel required to our London Office.

Requirements

Essential

• Proven ability to lead in delivering Quality within a fast-paced client-facing environment.
• Previous experience of managing stakeholder and client relationships related to the delivery of high-quality deliverables.
• Strong knowledge of API testing, integration testing and integration architecture.
• Demonstrable experience of mentoring/ coaching QE’s
• Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders (other teams, vendors, suppliers, etc.)
• Strong client, team and stakeholder management skills.
• Test management within an indirect UAT phase.
• Exceptional organisation and prioritisation skills with a high focus on workload distribution.
• A passion for continuous improvement.
• Flexible, resilient and diplomatic. Commercial acumen coupled with a high degree of intellectual curiosity.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Baseline understanding of Microsoft Azure.

Desirable

We would love it if you have:

• Previous exposure working with a SaaS product, in a high growth company or in the insurance industry
• Client-facing experience

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Generous 28 days holiday allowance, in addition to public holidays.
• For every year of service you complete, we’ll give you an additional days holiday (max. 5 days)
• One Dynamic Day per month on top of your holiday allowance to spend time doing the things you want to do or simply catching up with life admin.
• Remote & Hybrid approach varying with the nature of your role.
• Life cover; income protection and participation in the company pension scheme
• All employees are included in the company discretionary bonus scheme.
• £100 per month to put towards wellness activities.
• Annual learning & development allowance of £1,250 and free access to LinkedIn learning and Microsoft ESI learning platforms

Additional Information

This is a UK based role, sponsorship is not available.

Our company was built by looking at the world through a different lens and our culture today reflects that by encouraging you to be yourself, speak your mind, and share your opinions. We want people who want to push themselves, be part of something great, and be prepared to challenge if they think there is a better way. Collaboration sits at the heart of how we operate, it has fueled our growth enormously and our aim to be ‘world class’.                                                                                              

We want everyone to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process; if you require any additional adjustments please let us know. Visit instanda.com/careers for more information

INSTANDA has an in-house recruitment team, which focuses on sourcing great candidates directly.  INSTANDA does not accept unsolicited resumes from agency or search firm recruiters.  Fees will not be paid in the event a candidate submitted by a recruiter without an agreement in place is hired.  When we do use agencies, we have a PSL in place, so please do not contact managers directly.