QA Manager

It is our vision at Ground Control to leave the world in a better place than we found it.

We create better landscapes, nurture natural environments and construct spaces that bring people, places and the planet together.

We are enhancers, creators and shapers with a strong work ethic that enables us to deliver a diverse range of services to multiple sectors and clients.
Our national team of experts deliver tech- enabled, evidence-based solutions to businesses across the UK maintaining ecosystems so they are fit for the future.

We have an opening for a high-calibre QA Manager .

Our Engineering department are helping to ensure Ground Control s continued commercial success by transforming business process and customer experience. As a QA Manager, you will play a critical role enabling Ground Control's continued growth.

Everyone is welcome, and we are embracing a culture where difference is valued. Your uniqueness will be celebrated. We believe diversity grows initiative, and initiative skyrockets innovation. Together we will succeed in caring for each other, caring for our communities, and caring for our environment.

What we offer

At Ground Control we believe in rewarding our employees for their hard work. Along with a great basic salary and twice-yearly bonus, we also offer a wide-ranging benefits programme inspiring you to realise your full potential;

• A Top 100 Best UK Company.

• Proud holders of The Queens Award for Enterprise - Innovation

• We inclusively support the Race at Work Charter ,Ban The Box ,The Armed Forces Covenant and are Disability Confident.

• We invest 5% of our profits into the The Evergreen Fund, an investment fund dedicated to sustainability and environmental initiatives.

• Ongoing Training, development, coaching and mentoring opportunities, with clear career path progression and Leadership Programmes

• Match funding for employee fundraising and 2 personal choice volunteering days.

• Free gym access and nursery vouchers.

• Cycle to work scheme and travel loans.

• Brilliant Health and Wellbeing benefits.

What you ll achieve

As a QA Manager you will:

• Coach and mentor your team to ensure they have an appropriate level of competence in the following:

• • Engaging effectively with stakeholders.
  • Defining and executing effective and Agile test plans
  • Working with an Agile software engineering environment
  • Working with modern testing toolsets (unit testing frameworks, UI testing tools, load testing, security testing.

• Manage stakeholder expectations in respect of delivery timescales and outcomes.

• Work closely with product owners, scrum masters and lead engineers to ensure that software requirements are clearly defined, and that any potential edge or failure cases are considered and addressed.

• Advocate and evangelise for functional and non-functional excellence in everything you do, in line with modern UX principles, operational efficiency, and standards regarding security, resilience, and scalability.

• Collaborate with product owners to ensure acceptance criteria for all user stories are clearly defined and captured and solutions delivered by engineers fully meet the agreed functional design and holistic business needs.

• Work with product owners and scrum masters to balance the need for clear and comprehensive test cases against the need for agility just enough, just in time is the key.

• Define clear test cases that align to defined acceptance criteria that cover all use cases and give appropriate consideration to edge cases, failure cases, and non-functional considerations (scale, security, and resilience),ensuring that test cases are executed for all deliveries and that defects are appropriately triaged and remediated.

• Work with product owners and scrum masters to ensure that backlogs are written in a way that supports incremental testing and release of changes.

• Identify test cases that represent good candidates for automation and to use appropriate tooling to create automated tests.

• Work with Software/DevOps/Infrastructure Engineers to ensure good quality test environments are available and, where possible, that appropriate automated processes are in place to align these to production, scale these out, and refresh data as required.

Who we re looking for -

The successful candidate will have knowledge in:

• C#/.NET (Core and 5),HTML5/CSS 3,Front-end frameworks (e.g., Angular, React, Vue.js) SQL and NoSQL database technologies, Algorithms and data structures, Design patterns and principles, Microservice architectures, Domain driven development, Message-based architectures, CI/CD (Azure Pipelines/Octopus Deploy/TeamCity/AWS Code Build and Deploy), Cloud (Azure preferable, AWS also considered) Architectural patterns for resilience, scalability, and security.

• Strong people skills with effective listening and communication , and the ability to influence and problem solve.

• Experience in change and process management

• Strong time management and prioritisation skills.

• Win-Win Negotiations for Conflict

We have ambitious plans, join our adventure !