Group Head of Testing in Manchester

Head of Test role (managing Test Managers) Senior strategic role. Join us as we build our capability in readiness for a large implementation project.

26 days holiday, and a day off for your birthday. Free access to company holiday homes. Discretionary annual bonus plus an additional Shared Reward Bonus. Health cash plan plus Private medical insurance. Life assurance and Critical illness cover. Free local gym access. This role is based 5 days at our Cheadle office in South Manchester (SK8 3GW).

We’re Together. For over 50 years, we’ve helped thousands of people, businesses and professionals unlock their property ambitions with our common-sense approach to mortgages and secured loans. We take the time to understand our customers and our door is always open, so we can often help when other lenders can’t or won’t. Based in Cheadle, Cheshire, our 750 colleagues help our customers throughout the UK, backed by the power of a £7 billion loan book.

As Head of Testing, you will have the opportunity to join the next phase of evolution for a long established, well respected organisation. As part of Group Technology Services, you will ensure high quality releases, adherence to internal and external standards and quality controls through manual and automated testing. You will work closely with colleagues through the business and technical teams as part of cross functional teams set up to build and deliver the essential products needed to support the Together business. You will have the opportunity to create a modern automated test strategy for the organisation and to see it through to delivering effective results. You will be a key player in the transformation of Together technical capability. This role will be the ideal challenge for an experienced test expert who is keen on driving organisational level test strategy and execution within a modern cloud enabled DevOps environment.

Examples of the key accountabilities of the role:

• Adherence to IT Change and Operational policies and standards.
• Taking ownership of the test strategy and approach across the organisation and leading the test engineering team.
• Define the test strategy for the organisation and oversee the test approach for the major projects and programmes in the portfolio.
• Lead the management and development of the test engineering capability within Together and the evolution of that capability.
• Work with the engineering teams to select, deploy and operationalise the right test tools to support Together’s strategy.
• Drive a continuous quality culture throughout the technology organisation.

Qualifications:

• A deep understanding of the strategies needed within an organisation to drive a testing approach which supports continuous integration and delivery and meets the business needs.
• Ability to lead a team of test engineers delivering work across a number of different delivery streams.
• Self starting and able to organise yourself to deliver outstanding results.
• Experience in the generation of automated test suites to ensure that requirements are satisfied, including happy and unhappy path approaches.
• Automated testing of complex web applications with multiple workflows and paths.
• Experience of working as part of an agile team, and integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines (Microsoft Azure DevOps and AutoRabit for Salesforce).
• Familiarity with nCino, Salesforce, Azure APIs, or Thought Machine Vault would be useful.
• Experience of testing tools and frameworks such as Postman or AccelQ would be useful.
• Full coverage of Functional, Regression, Load, Performance, Security, and Persona-based testing.
• Experience of working in an enterprise environment.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure with a specialism in Azure.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Experience with DevOps Procedures and process and working in an Agile Environment.
• Results oriented with the ability to consistently meet deadlines.

If you feel you have some of the skills mentioned above, but not all, please do still apply and we would be happy to have a further discussion with you in regards to your suitability for the role. Together embraces diversity and inclusion, and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Not only do we welcome difference we celebrate it, support it and really value our colleagues for who they are. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. If you feel you’d benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

Please note that all successful applicants will undergo relevant employment reference, financial and criminal record checks. Please apply ASAP. We would like to commence interviews in early March.