Head of Test & Quality Assurance
Location: Chesterfield, Worksop or Leeds with hybrid working
Benefits: 25 days' holiday, Annual Target Bonus: 20%, Annual PSP Bonus: 10%, £7K Car Allowance, family private medical cover
Are you a Head of Testing and QA who has established and led the end-to-end Testing and Quality Assurance (QA) function within a complex enterprise business?
WRK digital are delighted to partner with Greencore, a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK. Greencore supply all the major supermarkets in the UK as well as travel retail outlets, discounters, coffee shops, foodservice providers, and other retailers. Employing over 14,000 people, they operate 21 world-class manufacturing units across 16 locations in the UK, with industry-leading technology and supply chain capabilities.
They are entering an exciting period of an IT transformation programme that will streamline and simplify core processes, provide easier access to quality business data, and enable investment in the right technology.
They work hard to ensure that Greencore is a great place to work, and its people truly are at the core. They're committed to ensuring all our colleagues have development plans and strive to provide inspiring leadership - in fact, in the past year Greencore have seen an 11% increase in the number of colleagues who would recommend Greencore as a place to work.
Why Greencore embarked on Making Business Easier?
Over time processes have become increasingly complex, increasing both the risk, and cost they pose, whilst restricting our agility. At the same time, our customers and the market expect more from us than ever before. Making Business Easier forms a fundamental foundation for our commercial and operational excellence agendas, whilst supporting managing our cost base effectively in the future.
The MBE Programme will streamline and simplify core processes, provide easier access to quality business data, and will invest in the right technology to enable these processes.
Why is this exciting for your career as a Head of QA & Test?
The MBE Programme presents a huge opportunity for colleagues across the technology function to play a central role in the design, shape, delivery and execution of an enterprise-wide digital transformation programme. The complexity of the initiative, within a FTSE 250 business, will allow for large-scale problem solving, group wide impact assessment and supporting the delivery of an enablement project to future proof the business. You will have the opportunity to work with colleagues across the business and bring a best practice approach to the function. Designing and shaping the solution and methodologies utilising your experience and expertise gives a platform for success and team ship building as Greencore, build, mature, strengthen and bolster their Technology department.
What you'll be doing as the Head of QA & Test at Greencore?
As the Head of QA & Test at Greencore you will be responsible for establishing and leading the end-to-end Testing and Quality Assurance (QA) function within Greencore. You will be responsible for the full lifecycle of QA & testing from creating a Test Strategy and approach to leading the preparation and execution of the major test phases required to ensure that the newly migrated systems can go-live with little or no risk to the business.
This new IT Testing & QA capability will play a crucial role in ensuring products, services and integrations introduced meet specific requirements and quality standards before they are promoted to live service. You will Build and manage a high-performing testing team with 3-5 direct reports and augmented supplier resources of c5-40 across projects.
This will benefit all stages of the delivery lifecycle and improve our meeting of requirements following the introduction of requirements-based testing (RBT) and testing driven development (TDD).
The role will include liaising with senior business stakeholders to give them assurance as to the scope and quality of testing conducted so that work is kept on track. Internal interfaces will include Wider Shared Service IT Team, Business Areas, Business Units etc. External interfaces will include IT Vendors / Service Providers.
What we're looking for?
* Proven experience in building and leading a Test & QA function, ideally in large-scale or complex environments.
* Strong expertise in software testing methodologies (manual, automated, performance, security).
* Experience integrating augmented supplier resources and managing external partnerships.
* Familiarity with automation tools and frameworks such as Selenium, Appium, or similar.
* Skilled in influencing and aligning senior stakeholders on quality-focused and value driven initiatives.
* Experience within industries requiring stringent testing (e.g. finance, manufacturing, logistics) is advantageous.
Next Steps:
We are looking to shortlist candidates right away, with interview slots available right now. If you are a Head of QA and Testing with a passion for IT Software and Application Testing, please apply now or contact WRK digital for a confidential conversation about the next steps. We look forward to receiving your application.