Summary: The Quality Assurance Manager for Wealth Management will oversee quality governance, ensuring adherence to product development life cycle (PDLC) standards across teams. This role involves conducting quality reviews, monitoring compliance, and validating product increments to meet business goals. The manager will also facilitate cross-team alignment and maintain a quality risk register while advising leadership on quality posture. The position is a 6-month contract based in Horsham, requiring on-site presence three days a week.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define, maintain, and enforce quality standards for product development and operations.
- Oversee adherence to the new PDLC across all domain teams.
- Conduct quality reviews for requirements, architecture, delivery processes, and release readiness.
- Ensure consistency in definitions, acceptance criteria, documentation, and operational discipline.
- Act as the top-level reviewer for quality risks across all streams.
- Monitor compliance via audits, checkpoints, and quality gates.
- Identify deviations from agreed standards and initiate corrective actions.
- Possess authority to block releases or milestones that fail to meet quality criteria.
- Validate that product increments meet business goals and customer expectations.
- Ensure quality is embedded early (“shift-left”) and is transparent across domains.
- Monitor non-functional quality: performance, resilience, operational readiness.
- Track and enforce process discipline across planning, delivery, and support activities.
- Maintain clarity and consistency around ways of working.
- Ensure teams follow proper standards for decision-making, change control, and release procedures.
- Work closely with Program Management, Product Owners, Architects, Team Leads, and QA teams.
- Facilitate quality governance ceremonies and cross-domain reviews.
- Ensure operational practices are unified across all domains.
- Maintain a quality risk register and escalate issues early.
- Provide regular reports on compliance, gaps, trends, and improvements.
- Advise leadership on quality posture and potential impact on delivery.
Key Skills:
- Quality Governance, PMO, Delivery Management, Product Development, or similar experience.
- Solid understanding of software development, product lifecycle, and delivery processes.
- Experience in enterprise-scale programs or transformations.
- Ability to supervise teams (without direct people management).
- Excellent communication and documentation skills.
- Experience conducting quality audits, reviews, or compliance assessments.
- Ability to challenge decisions constructively and enforce standards when needed.
- Technical background in engineering, architecture, or QA (strong plus).
- Experience with cloud transformations (strong plus).
- Experience in PDLC-oriented organizations (product companies) (strong plus).
- Familiarity with operational readiness, SRE concepts, or release governance (strong plus).
Salary (Rate): 700GBP/Day
City: Horsham
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
Job Title: Quality Assurance Manager-Wealth Management
Location: - Horsham-3Days/week Onsite
Duration: 6months+ Contract Inside IR35
700GBP/Day Inside IR35
Key Responsibilities
- Quality Governance
- Define, maintain, and enforce quality standards for product development and operations.
- Oversee adherence to the new PDLC across all domain teams.
- Conduct quality reviews for requirements, architecture, delivery processes, and release readiness.
- Ensure consistency in definitions, acceptance criteria, documentation, and operational discipline.
- Supervisory Quality Control
- Act as the top-level reviewer for quality risks across all streams.
- Monitor compliance via audits, checkpoints, and quality gates.
- Identify deviations from agreed standards and initiate corrective actions.
- Possess authority to block releases or milestones that fail to meet quality criteria.
- Product Quality Oversight
- Validate that product increments meet business goals and customer expectations.
- Ensure quality is embedded early (“shift-left”) and is transparent across domains.
- Monitor non-functional quality: performance, resilience, operational readiness.
- Process Quality & Operational Excellence
- Track and enforce process discipline across planning, delivery, and support activities.
- Maintain clarity and consistency around ways of working:
- PDLC steps
- readiness/done criteria
- documentation rules
- compliance requirements
- Ensure teams follow proper standards for decision-making, change control, and release procedures.
- Cross-Team Alignment
- Work closely with Program Management, Product Owners, Architects, Team Leads, and QA teams.
- Facilitate quality governance ceremonies and cross-domain reviews.
- Ensure operational practices are unified across all domains.
- Risk & Quality Reporting
- Maintain a quality risk register and escalate issues early.
- Provide regular reports on compliance, gaps, trends, and improvements.
- Advise leadership on quality posture and potential impact on delivery.
Required Skills & Experience
- Quality Governance, PMO, Delivery Management, Product Development, or similar experience
- Solid understanding of software development, product lifecycle, and delivery processes.
- Experience in enterprise-scale programs or transformations.
- Ability to supervise teams (without direct people management).
- Excellent communication and documentation skills.
- Experience conducting quality audits, reviews, or compliance assessments.
- Ability to challenge decisions constructively and enforce standards when needed.
Strong Plus
- Technical background in engineering, architecture, or QA.
- Experience with cloud transformations.
- Experience in PDLC-oriented organizations (product companies).
- Familiarity with operational readiness, SRE concepts, or release governance.
Must have skills: Governance, Risk and Compliance Quality compliance & Product quality Software Quality Standards
Priyanka Sharma Senior Delivery Consultant Office: 02033759240 psharma@vallumassociates.com
Rate:
Negotiable
Location:
Horsham, England, United Kingdom
IR35 Status:
Inside
Remote Status:
Onsite
Industry:
IT
Seniority Level:
Not Specified
