Hybrid Quality Assurance Lead

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About the role

  • QA Chapter Lead developing skills in testing, guiding a community of experts at Vodafone in high impact digital and core IT platforms. Inspiring knowledge transfer and innovation in testing practices.

Responsibilities

  • The QA Chapter Lead is the Product Owner of Skills Development, who builds expertise in the chapter and develops chapter members.
  • Enthusiastic about transferring knowledge to others, coaching and oversee personal development.
  • Responsible to create the Strategy of Testing & maintain the backlog of the chapter, thus will contribute in designing and implementing Vodafone’s high volume and high impact digital and core it channels/platforms.
  • Ensures knowledge transfer within chapter and boost innovation in testing practices.
  • Guide a community of Experts that are working within squads.
  • Allocating resources based on seniority and priority across the organization.
  • Work with the Tribe and Tech Lead to provide workforce plans for recruitment and development.
  • Organises interactions between the members of the chapter to nurture best practice and encourage knowledge & tool sharing.
  • Act as a supporting leader, rather than a line manager, aiming at maturing the organisation readiness, vs. controlling the work.
  • Provides guidance and harmonization of chapter best-practices (Chapter principles).
  • Acts as a mentor for Expert members of the chapter, helping them grow in expertise and experience new areas.
  • Play a pivotal role in inspiring and motivating everyone in the chapter to be the best they can be.
  • Ensure technical integrity and quality control consistency throughout the development life cycle.
  • Own test architecture, review test code, and ensure compliance to industry best practices.
  • Understand functional requirements and help creating user stories with testability in mind.
  • Responsible for identifying and improving Processes for Testing across Organizations.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience in QA Engineering role (3 of which in Automation)
  • Have a passion for personal and functional development, supporting members to be the best they can be
  • Agility and willingness to track, assess, and incorporate practice and technology developments into day-to-day working
  • Looks externally /brings in best practices, experiments, tests, pushes innovation
  • Able to foster learning around agile ways of working and the overall agile mind-set
  • Strong relationship building, persuasion, and collaboration skills, acting as enabler for coordination of activities between technical teams and building of cross-functional relationships quickly and confidently
  • Solid understanding of both object-oriented programming and scripting languages
  • Experience with version control systems (GitHub, GitLab, etc.),performance, load, and test testing
  • Expert: a) in Continuous Integration / Deployment design, b) with testing tools and practices on every level in the test pyramid (unit, component, integration)
  • Can apply a range of techniques to support facilitation, training, coaching and mentoring to guide and manage a group event to ensure that objectives are met effectively
  • Clear and effective communication skills in English (written and verbal)
  • Opensource contributing will be considered a plus

Benefits

  • Private Health & Medical Insurance
  • Hybrid way of working: a blend of 60% remote and 40% office-based working, including the option to work up to 20 days from abroad
  • Unlimited connectivity with our mobile, landline and Vodafone TV services – Experience first what our customers love
  • Unlimited access to learning resources and trainings
  • Vodafone Parental Leave: 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave to all employees regardless of gender, sexual orientation or length of service
  • Remote work equipment to help you create a comfortable, ergonomic workspace at home
  • Spirit of Vodafone days: dedicated time to pause, develop new skills and connect with our teams, values and services
  • Extra days off: Vodafone Day, Family Day, Volunteering Day
  • Office amenities (subject to the office location): such as restaurant, beauty corner, gym and parking
  • Special employee offers and discounts

Job title

Quality Assurance Lead

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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Location requirements

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