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About the Role
The QE Governance Lead provides independent quality governance, risk assurance, and release oversight across the Technology Transformation portfolio. This role establishes and governs portfolio-wide QE standards, policies, quality gates, metrics, and controls to ensure consistent, auditable, and risk-managed delivery across all transformation programmes and technology domains.
Responsibilities
- Own the Unified Master Test Strategy, quality engineering standards, policies, and governance frameworks.
- Establish quality gates, risk controls, and release governance across programmes and delivery portfolios.
- Ensure traceability, auditability, and compliance throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
- Provide independent quality assurance oversight across transformation and technology initiatives.
- Review and challenge programme test strategies, coverage models, quality risks, and readiness assessments.
- Lead quality health checks, assurance reviews, and governance forums.
- Support executive Go/No-Go decisions through risk-based quality reporting and assurance recommendations.
- Define portfolio-wide QE KPIs, dashboards, and reporting standards.
- Govern measures including defect leakage, test effectiveness, automation coverage, release confidence, and production quality.
- Deliver quality reporting and insights to senior stakeholders, programme leadership teams, and governance forums.
- Govern testing practices across functional, integration, end-to-end, data, AI, and non-functional testing disciplines.
- Ensure consistent defect management, root cause analysis, quality controls, and governance compliance.
- Maintain alignment across Agile, Product-led, Hybrid, and traditional delivery models.
- Own Quality Engineering strategy and governance across a diverse technology landscape.
- Partner with Programme Leads, Product Managers, Architects, Delivery Managers, and Quality Leadership teams.
- Govern supplier quality performance, testing obligations, and delivery assurance activities.
- Drive consistent adoption of Quality Engineering standards, governance frameworks, and best practices across programmes.
- Drive quality maturity, standardisation, and governance improvements across the portfolio.
- Establish reusable templates, frameworks, dashboards, and assurance artefacts.
- Promote automation-first, continuous testing, and AI-enabled quality practices.
- Support the development and growth of Quality Engineering Communities of Practice and Centres of Excellence.
Requirements
- Proven experience governing large-scale transformation portfolios and complex programmes.
- Strong understanding of Quality Engineering, automation-first, continuous testing, risk-based testing, governance, and release assurance.
- Strong executive stakeholder management, supplier governance, and influencing skills.
- Excellent communication, governance, and leadership capabilities.
- Experience working across diverse technology landscapes including OutSystems, D365, Power Platform, GCP Data & AI, Azure API Platforms.
- Technical awareness of TypeScript, JavaScript, C#, Python, Pytest, SQL, Playwright, API testing, CI/CD, DevOps, and AI-assisted testing.
- Experience operating within regulated, risk-sensitive environments.
Skills
- Quality Engineering
- Automation-first testing
- Continuous testing
- Risk-based testing
- Governance
- Release assurance
- Stakeholder management
- Supplier governance
- Influencing
- Communication
- Leadership
- OutSystems
- D365
- Power Platform
- GCP Data & AI
- Azure API Platforms
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- C#
- Python
- Pytest
- SQL
- Playwright
- API testing
- CI/CD
- DevOps
- AI-assisted testing
Benefits
- Collaborative working environment
- Empowerment to expand skills and take part in inspiring projects
- Expleo Academy for accredited training courses
- Competitive company benefits
- Supportive team culture
- Disability Confident Committed Employer status
- Inclusive and accessible recruitment process
- Communication and promotion of vacancies
- Interview offered to disabled people meeting minimum criteria
- Anticipation and provision of reasonable adjustments
- Support for existing employees with disabilities or long-term health conditions
- Equal opportunities employer
- Fair and equitable treatment across the organisation
- Additional support and adjustments for thriving
About the Company
- We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
- We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive.
Equal Opportunity
- As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to: Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, Communicating and promoting vacancies, Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job, Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required, Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people.
- We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.