K.A.G Recruitment are currently seeking a Quality Improvement Manager to join our client, a leading Insurance company who provide software and support for the Insurance industry.
Role: Quality Improvement Manager
Salary: £72,000 - Package: 25 days of holiday, Pension contribution (4% employee, 4% employer), Critical illness cover, Cycle to work scheme, Medical insurance, Discretionary Company bonus scheme of 10%
Location: Worcester or Winchester (with hybrid option)
Hours: 37.5
Overview of the role:
You will be responsible for ensuring designated Technology programmes and projects identify and deliver measurable quality improvement. Working closely with Head of QA, Quality Architect and members of the QA Chapter this role will ensure that quality issues are identified early, and appropriate best practices are agreed and put in place.
Key responsibilities:
- Identify Quality improvement areas within allocated workstreams, focussing on bringing in left thinking quality initiatives
- Working alongside Development Engineers, Technical QA Engineers, Architecture, Systems and Business Analysts to ensure collaborative solutions to quality issues are agreed and implemented.
- Identify skills and knowledge gaps in testing capabilities and create achievable improvement plans across all disciplines.
- Identify delivery risks and ensure QA activity is understood and scheduled at the earliest point.
- Highlight impact of change to systems to stakeholders.
- Working with other departments to influence quality improvements across the business.
- Mentor other team members in QA best practices.
Requirements:
You will have exposure of working in a similar role in either Financial services or the Insurance industry and possess strong test automation application knowledge.
You will have previously worked with Development teams and have sound knowledge of Non functional testing techniques.
ISTQB Foundation certification would be highly advantageous along with Agile and Microsoft Azzure Certification