Senior QA Lead

What they'll be doing:

- Setting up a QE governance model covering roles, responsibilities, decision rights, quality gates and release readiness controls

- Defining standard testing practices across planning, design, execution, defect management, risk management and reporting

- Making requirements more testable, with clear acceptance criteria, traceability and alignment to business processes

- Bringing in risk-based testing for critical business processes, integrations, data migration and member journeys

- Getting more out of Azure DevOps for test planning, execution, defect tracking, reporting and quality dashboards

- Defining standard test artefacts: test plans, test scripts, defect taxonomy, test completion reports and release readiness evidence

- Improving SIT and UAT readiness, including setting clearer expectations for business stakeholders, vendors and project teams

- Recommending practical improvements to test environments and test data

- Putting together a transition plan so the client, or an ongoing partner, can keep the framework running after the three months

Must have:

- Has set up test governance or a testing framework for an organisation, not just run testing.

- Has implemented a risk-based testing approach.

- Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps Test Plans

- Has coordinated SIT and UAT with business users and third-party vendors

- Has defined test approaches for data migration and system integrations.

- Has coached teams and handed over a framework for others to run.

Nice to have:

- Test environment and test data management

- Experience in member-based, insurance or not-for-profit organisations

- ISTQB Advanced Test Manager or similar

English and stakeholder skills really matter here