[Hiring] Senior Quality Engineering Lead @Nextjob

Role Description

Our client is seeking an experienced Senior Quality Engineering Lead for an initial three-month interim engagement. Following an external quality review, the organisation has identified a set of recommendations to strengthen its quality engineering and testing practices. The successful consultant will lead the implementation of these recommendations by establishing a practical, sustainable quality engineering governance model and testing framework.

This is a remote role requiring close collaboration with the client’s teams, business stakeholders, project teams, and third-party vendors. The focus is on building capability, improving consistency, and ensuring the framework can be maintained by the client or an ongoing delivery partner after the engagement.

Engagement Details

• Position: Senior Quality Engineering Lead
• Engagement type: Interim contract / consulting engagement
• Initial duration: 3 months
• Work arrangement: Remote
• Client: International

Key Responsibilities

• Quality Engineering Governance: Establish a QE governance model defining roles and responsibilities, decision rights, quality gates, governance forums, and release-readiness controls.
• Standard Testing Framework: Define and document standard testing practices across test planning, design, execution, defect management, risk management, reporting, and quality assurance.
• Requirements Quality and Traceability: Improve requirements testability by establishing clear acceptance criteria, traceability between requirements and tests, and alignment with business processes.
• Risk-Based Testing: Introduce a risk-based testing approach that prioritises critical business processes, system integrations, data migration, and end-to-end member journeys.
• Azure DevOps Test Management: Improve the use of Azure DevOps Test Plans for test planning, test case management, execution, defect tracking, reporting, and quality dashboards.
• Test Artefacts and Reporting: Define standard test artefacts and templates, including test plans, test scripts, defect taxonomy, test completion reports, and release-readiness evidence.
• SIT and UAT Readiness: Strengthen System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) readiness, clarifying entry and exit criteria, stakeholder responsibilities, vendor inputs, and business-user expectations.
• Test Environments and Data: Assess current test environment and test data practices and recommend practical improvements to support reliable, repeatable testing.
• Transition and Handover: Develop a practical transition plan, including documentation, ownership, knowledge transfer, and recommendations, so the client or an ongoing partner can sustain the framework beyond the three-month engagement.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience establishing test governance, a quality engineering framework, or organisation-wide testing standards—not solely managing test execution.
• Proven experience implementing a risk-based testing approach and applying risk-based prioritisation to testing activities.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps Test Plans, including test management and execution workflows.
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (MS Dynamics CE).
• Experience coordinating SIT and UAT with business users, project teams, and third-party vendors.
• Experience defining test strategies or approaches for data migration and system integrations.
• Ability to coach teams, transfer knowledge, and hand over a framework that can be operated sustainably by others.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication, with strong stakeholder engagement, facilitation, and influencing skills.

Desirable Requirements

• Experience with test environment management and test data management.
• Experience in member-based organisations, insurance, not-for-profit, or similarly service-oriented environments.
• ISTQB Advanced Test Manager certification or an equivalent recognised testing/quality qualification.