Head of QA

Why Airbox?
You're more likely to love your work when that work has a purpose, when it's meaningful and when it's protecting lives. And, at Airbox Systems, it will.
Here's why.We are driven by passion and great people who share our enthusiasm for trying to make the world a better place, our friendly team includes individuals with backgrounds in military, aviation, and law enforcement. Our experience brings first-hand insight into frontline operations in the air and on the ground to enable cutting-edge concepts for improving the service that we deliver.At Airbox, our values can be described as behavioral guidance. They are the principles and beliefs that provide a cohesive vision and define who we are as a business. In doing so, they define our organisation internally, and externally with our stakeholders and customers. In essence, they are our “true north” that help us to navigate our organisation through prosperous times as well as uncertain periods.
Our company beliefs and values are embodied in our culture. Whilst we celebrate the diversity of the people we work with, there are certain values and attributes all of us share – whatever your background, these are the qualities we are looking for in the people we hire: Commitment, Positive Realism, Ethics, Accountability, Humanity, Quality, and Delight.What this role is about:As the hands-on Head of QA, you will be working with and managing a team of skilled QA Engineers to ensure the quality of applications trusted and loved by emergency services, police and military in applications such as search and rescue and counter-terrorism. What you’ll do: Day to day management of the QA function at Airbox. Managing and mentoring QA team members. Measuring and monitoring performance of the QA function. Set the overall guidance and expectations for team output, practices, and collaboration
Anticipate dependencies with other teams to deliver products and applications in line with business requirements
Manage stakeholder relationships and the team’s work in accordance with compliance standards, service level agreements, and business requirements
Create a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect for the team members and ensures diverse representation In addition, this is a hands-one role and the Head ofQA will Support the triaging of defects and ensuring timely escalation to the correct department Track and coordinate regression defects, ensuring they go to the appropriate team for resolution Understand non-functional requirements and prepare ways to test these in addition to functional requirements Maintain awareness of different test types and phases, ensuring features are release ready
Work with product managers and developers on testing new features and flows being released
Write and execute test plans for customer projects Maintain and update a clean and tidy regression pack Support the roll-out of Automation at Airbox, sharing knowledge with the team Communicates comfortably with internal stakeholders and immediate team.
Able to business partner with internal stakeholders and build relationships accordingly Develops long term and robust relationships both internally and externally.
Openly shares views in a truthful and constructive way
Actively listens to other people and uses their experience to understand, learn and grow.
Takes ownership for seeing things through.
Understands how their contributions affect the team, department and company
Builds and maintains good relationships with their team department and across the company What we’re looking for in our ideal candidate: All of our colleagues have to pass an NPPV3 clearance; you can find out more about it here but a key feature is having the last 3 years living in the United Kingdom ISTQB qualified - minimum foundation level Previous experience as a QA Engineer, both with manual and automation experience
Previous experience as a QA Manager/Head of QA - managing a QA function within a SaaS company. Experience testing multi-platform software and servers: Mobile/tablet Android, iOS, Web, PC with consideration of the convention of each platform Experience with test automation tools. Experience with API testing, familiar with tools such as Postman, K6 or Selenium Web Driver Strong understanding of the testing position within Scrum ( www.Scrum.org ) Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
Interested in continuous improvement initiatives with a methodical and analytical mindset Excellent organisation skills and attention to detail
Articulate with excellent verbal and written communication skills
Builds and maintains good relationships with their team department and across the company It’s a bonus if: Experience working with K6 library
Experience with tools such as Jira, TestRail and/or TFS DevOps What we offer: We’re always looking for new ways to celebrate our people. You’ll be no different. The chance to work with a passionate team that’s working together everyday towards our shared big ambitious goal A dynamic, flexible and fun scale-up work environment with a highly talented team 26 days holiday per year, plus public holidays Private medical cover with Bupa for all our colleagues, as well as a Wellbeing Allowance each year Pension scheme, offering up to 6% matching contribution Up to 20 Nomad Working Days per annum Personal Development budget Electric Car Scheme Truly living our value of Delight; we run Company Socials including Christmas and Summer parties alongside activities and gifts throughout the yearFlexible & Hybrid Working: We said you'll get freedom to work in a way that is best for you, and that extends to being in the office – or not.Work better from home? No worries. Prefer the office? Come on down. We have 2 mandatory Townhall days; Spring and Autumn, where the whole business gets together. When you visit the office you won’t just find rows and rows of desks. No, you’ll find our colleagues meeting on the walking pads, having planning sessions over a game of tennis table or grabbing a bean bag in our ‘Quality’ collaborative space - that’s right we live our values so much, we named our meeting spaces after them.You can also shape work around your life at Airbox Systems; most colleagues work our core hours of 9am-5pm with others flexibly between 7am-7pm. Whether you're fitting in a spin class or the school run, you'll have the flexibility for whatever matters most. All we ask in return is that you produce great work, but when you’re working with passionate people, that part comes naturally. Connect with us: Interested in the role, or Airbox in general, but you don’t meet 100% of the requirements? We’d love to hear from you! We encourage you to connect with us here; we’d be excited to see if your unique skill set and experience could be a match for future roles.
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