Director of Testing leading quality assurance and validation efforts for quantum computing products. Overseeing teams and driving strategies for hardware and software testing at Riverlane.
Responsibilities
Own the QA strategy across engineering, ensuring rigorous verification, testing, and validation of hardware and software products.
Coordinate and oversee testing, verification, and validation plans across multiple teams.
Drive hiring plans to scale a high-performing QA and test organisation.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support verification and testing initiatives and provide guidance on validation activities.
Implement best practices, processes, and frameworks for testing across the company, that ensure robust, scalable, and reliable products.
Act as a technical and strategic leader in a matrixed, fast-moving environment, influencing product design, development timelines, and release readiness.
Provide mentorship and leadership to engineering managers and individual contributors within testing teams.
Requirements
Significant experience in QA, verification, and testing within semiconductor companies.
Strong understanding of verification and testing methodologies; experience with validation is a plus.
Proven track record of leading multiple teams in a matrixed organisation.
Experience in hiring, developing, high performing technical teams.
Strategic thinker with excellent communication skills, able to influence across technical and business stakeholders.
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth scale-up environment.
Exceptional communication and organisational skills
Highly motivated with enthusiasm and commitment to achieve ambitious targets
A resilient problem-solver, comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change
Excitement to be part of a category-defining quantum computing company with a global mission to enable utility scale quantum computing
Even better if…
You have experience with validation
Benefits
A comprehensive benefits package that includes an annual bonus plan, private medical insurance, life insurance, and a contributory pension scheme
Equity, so that our team can share in the long-term success of Riverlane
28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and enhanced family leave
A diverse work environment that brings together experts in many fields (including software and hardware development, quantum information theory, physics and maths) and over 20 different nationalities
A learning environment that encourages individual, team and company growth and development, including a regular programme of learning events and training and conference budgets
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