Lead/Senior Quality Engineer

About Us: 

Solirius Consulting delivers technical consultancy and application delivery to our clients in order to solve real world problems and allow our clients to respond to an ever-changing technical landscape. We partner closely with our clients, embedding our consultants into their businesses in order to provide a bespoke service, allowing us to truly understand our clients' needs.

It is this close collaboration with our clients that has enabled us to grow rapidly in recent years and will drive our ambitious future growth plans. We currently have over 250 consultants working with a variety of key clients from both the public and private sectors such as the Ministry of Justice, Department for Education, FCDOS, UEFA, International Olympic Committee and Mercedes Benz; with plans to increase our client base further in the near future.

We operate as a flat organisation and believe in trusting and supporting our team to operate independently. We pride ourselves on being specialists at what we do, making the most of our consultants' expertise in their fields in order to provide a best-in-class service to our clients. All our consultants have the opportunity to work on a range of different projects, providing a broad range of knowledge on which to develop their careers and progress in the direction they choose.

The Role:  

We are looking for an experienced Lead/Senior Quality Engineer able to assist with leading the Quality Engineering practice within Solirius. You will have the opportunity to shape how Quality evolves over an exciting period for the technology team and business overall.

You will ideally have a strong understanding of automated testing, be able to apply this both in a hands-on approach coupled with experience in strong leadership with teams of test engineers at all levels. 

Key Responsibilities:

• You’ll be required to support the Quality Engineering practice in day-to-day operations as well as to define and implement test strategies, review existing test strategies, and ascertain areas for improvement. 
• You will be a leader within the business playing a key role in architecting the businesses approach to Quality Engineering.
• You’ll be working within a significant area of IT delivery, and you will have an opportunity to promote quality outcomes and value across Solirius and our clients. 
• You’ll have strong delivery management and leadership skills with a focus on helping Solirius to deliver high quality outcomes at pace.
• As a QA Senior/Lead you’ll be critical to overseeing multiple complex project teams to provide technical leadership on improving the way things are done, providing advice and direction to team members and stakeholders.
• You will work closely with senior delivery partners on critical applications with large user bases. You will promote quality outcomes and values across Solirius and our clients.
  

Key Skills/Experience:

• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to develop highly effective working relationships with colleagues, IT suppliers and business stakeholders.
• Develop the quality strategy across the business, evaluating what the current practices look like and identify areas for improvement.
• Working closely with business stakeholders, understanding their needs and translating them into a QA approach.
• Proven experience of defining and implementing test improvement strategies, test plans and test completion reports.
• Experience in hiring, coaching, and mentoring high performing teams of SDET and Test engineers.
• Strong testing background and experience with test automation (e.g. Playwright, Cypress etc)
• Deep Agile experience with CI/CD and shift left development practices
• Experience with Delivery and Technologies ideally across the Government domain
• Ability to manage multiple resources and allocate workload across varying teams and projects in parallel
• Flexibility and ability to adapt to changing objectives works well under pressure
• Strong decision making and problem-solving skills.
• Be an advocate of Quality Engineering, Continuous Improvement and industry recognised best practices
• Project management experience and the ability to lead teams from pre day 1 strategies to project completion

To be considered for this role you will have:

• Proven experience of strong stakeholder management in prominent high paced environments.
• Previously held a similar role in another organisation.
• Proven experience of improving processes, setting strategy, delivering improvements, maintaining a quality service, and driving change. 
• Proven experience of driving an automation and shift left strategy.
• Knowledge of modern technologies and processes such as SecDevOps.
• Strong proven experience in building and maintaining strong working relationships and leading collaboration with clients.

Package and Benefits:

• Competitive salary, dependent on experience
• Flexible working / Work from home
• Discretionary bonus
• Contributory pension
• Gym membership
• Annual away days
• 10 days allocated development training per year
  

Equality and Diversity:

Solirius Consulting is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that supports, celebrates, encourages and respects all individuals and in which all processes are based on merit, competence and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexuality, age, disability, ethnicity, marital status or any other protected characteristics.

Should you require further assistance or require any reasonable adjustments be put in place to better support your application process, please do not hesitate to raise this with us.