Portfolio - QA Manager - Data and Analytics
Role Overview
Own the quality assurance approach across Whitbread data products and platforms within the Tech & Data team.
Work with Engineering, Product, Architecture, business teams, and external technology partners to embed quality through delivery.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Own the quality assurance approach across Whitbread data products and platforms within the Tech & Data team.
Work with Engineering, Product, Architecture, business teams, and external technology partners to embed quality through delivery.
What you'll do
- Develop QA standards, testing frameworks, and automation strategy; define functional, integration, API, data validation, ETL/ELT, regression, performance, and UAT testing.
- Review requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to set test scope and coverage; manage testing across releases and delivery streams.
- Coordinate UAT planning, execution, and sign-off with business stakeholders; review test evidence, defects, and quality documentation.
- Assess upstream changes and their impact on downstream products and integrations; escalate quality concerns and release risks.
- Promote automation and continuous improvement; communicate quality metrics, release readiness, defect trends, and testing progress.
What we're looking for
- QA Manager, Test Manager, or Release/Test Management experience, ideally in complex data-focused environments.
- Strong test planning and strategy; advanced SQL and data validation and analysis.
- API testing and experience with JSON, CSV, and structured datasets; ETL/ELT and data warehouse testing knowledge.
- Hands-on data, API, and automation testing; UAT coordination and understanding of test automation frameworks.
- Experience assessing change impacts across integrated systems; Agile delivery experience.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication, prioritization, analytical skills, attention to detail, and confidence making quality and risk decisions.
Additional desirable experience
- Cloud-based data platforms; CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Data governance and data quality frameworks; QA team leadership; large-scale enterprise data environments.
- Implementing a test automation strategy from initial concept through adoption.
Opportunity
- Shape quality standards and automation across a broad range of products and projects and help teams deliver high-quality releases.
Compensation
- Salary stated as £70,000–£75,000 plus bonus and benefits.
Workplace and employment
- Permanent role with hybrid working at Whitbread Court.
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