QA Manager

Schroders Personal Wealth; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

**Job Type**Fixed Term (Fixed Term)**Closing Date**28/02/2026Schroders Personal Wealth aims to improve the way financial advice is offered, by making it more affordable, accessible and powerful for more people. We want to change lives for the better.As the Quality Assurance (QA) Manager, you will play a pivotal role in leading and evolving the QA capability across the organisation. You will be responsible for managing and developing QA teams, defining and owning the overall QA strategy and ensuring that quality is embedded throughout the full software development lifecycle. You will collaborate closely with engineering managers, project teams, business stakeholders, and third-party suppliers to ensure the delivery of high-quality, reliable, and secure software solutions for our customers. Your leadership, experience in modern QA practices, test automation and governance will be critical in maintaining and continuously improving our quality standards.**Role** | Fixed Term Contract to 31/12/2026**Location** | Leeds, West Yorkshire**Salary** | £ 70,618 to £77,680**Key Responsibilities**The role involves day-to-day responsibility for:**QA Team Management*** Lead, mentor and develop QA professionals, fostering a positive, collaborative, and high-performance culture.* Coach, support, and provide regular feedback to team members, ensuring clear development plans are in place.* Set clear objectives and expectations for team performance, conducting regular reviews and performance discussions.* Build appropriate team structures, skills, and capacity to meet current and future delivery demands.**Demand & Delivery Management*** Work with project and business stakeholders to plan and prioritise QA work across multiple initiatives.* Ensure QA commitments are realistic, clearly communicated and delivered on time and to the expected quality.* Monitor delivery progress, risks and dependencies, escalating issues where necessary.* Support estimation and planning activities to ensure QA is effectively integrated into delivery timelines.**QA Strategy & Quality Engineering*** Own and evolve the overall QA strategy, ensuring it aligns with organisational objectives and the wider software development lifecycle.* Champion a strong quality culture, embedding shift-left testing and continuous quality practices across teams.* Define and implement appropriate QA processes, standards, and best practices.* Ensure the right tools, frameworks, environments, and skills are in place to support modern software delivery.**Software Testing & Automation*** Provide leadership and direction on test automation and tooling, evaluating and recommending appropriate technologies and frameworks.* Ensure effective coverage of manual and automated testing for in-house developed and third-party supplied solutions.* Promote testing at all levels of the testing pyramid.* Work closely with engineering teams to ensure defects are identified early, prioritised correctly, and resolved efficiently.**Quality Control, Governance & Reporting*** Define, track and report on QA KPIs and metrics.* Ensure appropriate QA documentation, test evidence and artefacts are created and maintained.* Implement and monitor quality gates for software changes.* Ensure release and operational teams are informed of known issues, defects, and workarounds.* Drive continuous improvement initiatives.**Qualifications & Skills*** Relevant experience in a Quality Assurance role with a strong background testing in-house and 3rd party built solutions.* Proven experience managing QA teams.* Proven experience defining and owning QA strategies* Proficient in test automation frameworks and scripting languages such as Selenium or Cypress.* Experience testing web applications, APIs, and integrated systems.We understand not everyone will meet 100% of the requirements, however we encourage you to apply if you think your skills are a good fit for this role.This job vacancy may close earlier than the advertised date if a suitable candidate is found. We encourage interested applicants to submit their applications as soon as possible.**Some fantastic benefits SPW colleagues enjoy:*** **Generous Holiday Entitlement:** 30 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell 5 days.* **Health & Wellbeing:** Company-paid Private Medical Insurance, Life Insurance, and Health Screening.* **Company Pension Contribution:**A matched pension contribution of up to 15% of your base pay.* **Cash Allowance:** Flexible allowance to spend on additional benefits personal to you, including: dental cover, paid sabbatical leave, gym membership, menopause support.* **Bonus Opportunity:** Dependent on individual/company performance (eligible after 3 months’ service)* **Financial Advice**: Access to free financial advice to help secure your financial future.To find out more, please visit **We support flexible working:**At SPW, we know how important it is to be able to achieve a balance. We want to support your lifestyle as well as meeting our business needs, so will always aim to be flexible. As well as traditional working patterns, we have colleagues who work informal flexible hours, reduced working hours, and have job-sharing arrangements. Many colleagues work from home, or in a hybrid way. We warmly welcome applications from those returning to work after a period of leave, providing appropriate support and training where required.**You belong here:**At SPW, we embrace individuality and diversity of identity, experience, and thought. We actively strive for inclusive behaviours and actions, making appropriate adjustments for disabilities, health conditions and neurodiversities. We ensure equal opportunities for all and transparently report on gender pay to promote fairness.Schroders Personal Wealth operates under the Senior Managers and Certification Regime as a solo-regulated firm and if this role is classed as a Certified Role under that regime you will be subject to enhanced vetting and will have a number of additional conduct and regulatory duties to adhere to, as well as certifying at least annually that you are fit and proper to perform this role.“It’s great that you have clicked this far. What we are building at SPW has clearly caught your attention and you’re interested in working with us to change lives through providing more financial advice to more clients. If you need more insight about what it’s like to work here, check out our careers page onIf you are ready to explore our vacancies further, get scrolling! 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