Head of Quality & Delivery Excellence

About the role

A group of technology companies is looking for a strategic leader to drive Software Quality Assurance across multiple dimensions, overseeing a team of 50 people covering White Box Testing, Automation and Manual Testing. The role also owns the company-wide QA framework, governance and compliance, and acts as the key point of contact for the Group of Tech.

Key responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve the company-wide quality management system, quality standards, policies and quality gates.
• Drive QA controls, checkpoints and definitions of done across the full software development lifecycle.
• Promote defect prevention, root cause analysis, process improvement and upstream quality.
• Oversee application testing, including test coverage, automation, non-functional testing and defect management.
• Establish release, change and emergency change governance, and embed quality gates into CI/CD pipelines.
• Define governance for AI-generated code and AI-powered product testing, including evaluation, regression and safety controls.
• Own quality metrics, dashboards, reporting, budget, tooling and vendor management.
• Lead and develop the quality organization across QA, testing and automation, and partner with Engineering, Product, Design, Security and Support.

Required profile

• Minimum 10 years of software engineering and quality experience, preferably in distributed or cloud-native systems.
• Minimum 6 years in QA leadership, managing teams of around 50 through leads and functional heads.
• Proven ownership of a company-wide QMS or quality governance framework.

What we offer

• Salary up to $12k plus AWS and bonus.
• Up to 21 days annual leave, medical and other staff benefits.