Director of Testing

Global Director of Testing and QA, Testing and QA CoE Lead – Management Consulting – UK, Remote with some global Travel – Automation, Performance, NFT – 1-2 year contract role My client are a well established and globally renowned Management Consultancy who are looking for a Global Director and CoE Lead of Testing and QA to set up the Quality Assurance standards and CoE across the global group. This role will involve managing a team of 20 direct reports with a wider test team of 200 people. The Director of QA will lead their global Teams as well as introducing Automation and NFT to the business and an NFT/Automated Test Strategy. Ideally you will have set up an Automation strategy, selected tooling and delivered against the business need. The role of the Director of Testing will involve: Setting up the global Test strategy and CoE with particular focus on Automation including tool selection but also leading other areas including Functional Testing, Non-Functional and Defect Management Managing senior stakeholders internally and overseeing individuals who can be high performing consultants Leading teams with a focus on working in an Agile way or working following Scrum Developing a Testing and QA roadmap and executing this focussed on a wide range of elements including Functional, Non-Functional, DevOps, Automation, Processes, Tooling and Documentation Oversee the adoption of modern testing methodologies for software, hardware, and network components. The ideal Director of QA and Testing will have the following experience: Experience setting up a Testing and QA CoE, best practices and release management process. Proven experience of hands on Automation enabling them to be imperative in preparing the Automation test strategy and Tool selection as well as leading execution. Experience of not only Automation test strategy creation but leading teams with a focus on Functional, Non-Functional, Defect Management and DevOps; all within an Agile methodology. An in-depth understanding of the Agile methodology including Scrum, TDD and BDD principles. Strong expertise and understanding of CI/CD and other DevOps processes. Solid expertise in performance testing tools (eg, Neoload, JMeter, LoadRunner) and security testing tools (eg, OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite). Experience in testing hardware, including laptops, network devices, and end-user computing environments in large-scale enterprises. Proven ability to develop and execute test plans for both hardware performance and compatibility across diverse operating systems, configurations, and network environments Experience working for businesses who are scaling would be widely beneficial to the position Success in Test Automation framework implementation Coming with strong Technical skills focussed around CI/CD, Functional, Non-Functional, Manual and Automated Testing. The Director of Testing and QA is a contract role based remotely with some global travel and the office is based in London for those who wish to go to the office. It will be a 1-2 year contract. If this role suits your experience and you want to find out more then please apply straight away for immediate consideration.