Agile Quality & Test Automation Lead
DXC Technology2 days ago
Farnborough, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and improve the quality engineering and test automation strategy across Agile Release Trains and Scrum teams.
- Design scalable automated testing frameworks for functional, regression, non-functional, and security testing.
- Establish standards and best practices for Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, and RestAssured.
- Integrate automated test suites and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps.
- Drive shift-left testing, early defect identification, and defect prevention.
- Create automated quality gates, metrics, and dashboards covering release readiness, automation coverage, and defect leakage.
- Provide senior stakeholders with visibility into quality risks and release confidence.
- Mentor, coach, and upskill test automation engineers and cross-functional team members.
- Collaborate with development, security, architecture, and delivery teams across a multi-supplier environment.
Requirements
- Experience in software quality engineering, automated testing, or a related discipline.
- Experience leading QA or quality engineering governance across SAFe or scaled Agile delivery environments and CI/CD pipelines.
- Advanced experience with Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, and/or RestAssured.
- Strong programming or scripting capability using Python, Java, and/or JavaScript.
- Hands-on experience integrating automated tests into GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar tooling.
- Strong knowledge of functional, regression, non-functional, and security testing approaches.
- Experience establishing automated quality gates and quality metrics.
- Understanding of secure software development practices and quality requirements in security-focused or UK public-sector environments.
- Practical experience with SAFe and Scrum delivery models.
- Strong facilitation and communication skills, including communicating technical quality risks to senior stakeholders.
- Relevant certifications such as ISTQB Test Automation Engineer, ISTQB Technical Test Analyst, Certified Agile Tester, SAFe Practitioner, Scrum Master, Agile Software Engineering, or ITIL Foundation are advantageous.
- Equivalent practical experience is accepted in place of certification or traditional career paths.
- Candidates must have the right to work in the United Kingdom and meet applicable UK Government and contractual security or residency requirements.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Company pension scheme.
- Private medical insurance and wellbeing support.
- Professional training and certification opportunities.
- Access to enterprise-scale environments and technologies.
- Employee recognition programmes.
- Team events and social activities.
- Supportive and collaborative working environment.
- Onsite in Hampshire five days per week, with flexibility to support wellbeing, productivity, individual work styles, and life circumstances.
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About DXC Technology
DXC Technology is a public IT services and consulting company that runs and modernizes mission-critical systems for large enterprises and governments. It provides managed services, cloud migration and operations, cybersecurity, application development, and industry BPS, monetizing through long-term outsourcing and consulting engagements. Formed in 2017 from the merger of CSC and HPE Enterprise Services, DXC is headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia and trades on the NYSE as DXC.