Lead Consultant – Test and Quality Management

Job Description

About the Role

Title: Lead Consultant – Test & Quality Management (Remote)

Location: United Kingdom – Remote (within location)

Full-Time

£50k – £65k

Type: Full-Time

Job Description:

Direct applicants only, no agencies please as we have preferred suppliers already.

This role is permanent but a fixed term or associate contract may be considered for specific engagements.

Spike are retail technology experts delivering end-to-end, go-live confidence for the biggest retail brands. Learn more about us here – www.wearespike.co.uk

Due to ongoing growth, we are looking for a Test Managers to join our existing team, focusing on defining and implementing testing strategies, roadmaps, tools, framework & approach across our growing client portfolio. You could be working across many different projects using a wide variety of technologies, and tools. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of real retail/ecommerce experience across many different client engagements and the ability to work in complex and challenging environments, with strong stakeholder management skills.

Key responsibilities:

Driving test engineering excellence for our key clients

Defining test strategy, process, techniques, organisation, tools, infrastructure, environments and data across a variety of delivery and technology landscapes and methodologies, whilst ensuring an equal balance between both delivery and commercial aspects

Delivering large test programmes across multiple workstreams, vendors and delivery methodologies

Determining & documenting detailed test estimates and strategies to allow the Spike sales team to produce the necessary proposals and delivery plans

Supporting the Spike sales team in the pre-sales process

Assisting the marketing team to develop marketing materials and position strategies for our services and solutions in conjunction with the Spike marketing message framework

Conduct regular project visits and reviews to support Spike delivery assurance

Lead, guide, train and mentor Spike consultants across our projects

Required skills:

Proven experience in defining and implementing test strategies and/or approaches for multiple projects

Collaborate with and influence technical and non-technical stakeholders, resources and teams

Ability to work at senior/strategic and lower level process/technical levels

Previous experience working in the retail industry

Modern Software Development Lifecycle Processes and Methodologies

Understand evolving technology and test techniques, technologies and tooling

Desirable skills:

Salesforce (Commerce Cloud/Service Cloud)

Mulesoft

NetSuite

Other retail platforms including MACH/Shopify front ends, payments, warehousing or merchandising platforms

Salary: 50k – 65k per annum (based on experience)

Benefits package:

Annual performance & pay review

Leave entitlement of 25 days per year + Birthday off as leave (+all statutory holidays of course!)

Leave exchange (buy or sell)

Pension with auto-enrolment to pension scheme after 1 month

Training allowance