Quality Assurance Practice Lead

1 month ago

Auckland City, New Zealand Datacom Full time

Our Why
Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.

About the Role (your why)
As a Quality Assurance (QA) Practice Lead in our Smartly team, you will be responsible for leading, manging and developing a team of QA Testers, along with contributing to the overall growth of the QA practice.

You will also support, lead and coach one of our cross functional product squads with the goal of creating and maintaining a high performing self-managing team.

What you’ll do
- Guiding, supporting, and mentoring a team of six to twelve QA testers to ensure both high-quality work and professional development.
- Leading and coordinating an Agile product squad, including facilitation of Agile ceremonies when necessary.
- Ensuring effective communication and alignment across product by collaborating with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developer Practice Leads, and product squads to achieve superior customer outcomes.
- Developing metrics to measure quality throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and consistently reporting on findings.
- Providing additional testing assistance where needed.
- Collaborating with other Practice Leads in the business to identify areas for improvement, share ideas, and establish processes and practices that enhance collaboration within the broader team and elevate product quality.
- Regularly updating stakeholders, including senior management, on testing progress, metrics, and key performance indicators.

What you’ll bring
- Your enthusiasm for sharing QA testing practices and technologies with others.
- Proven involvement in constructing or contributing to successful agile teams.
- Extensive background in quality assurance and people management, showcasing a solid understanding of principles and practices.
- Excellent communication skills, emphasising the creation of cohesive, collaborative, high-performing, and productive virtual teams.
- Experience with SQL.
- Demonstrated ability to drive positive change across diverse cross-functional product delivery teams.
- Experience in mentoring and coaching peers.
- Skilled in fostering strong collaboration between product and development teams.
- Experience in advocating software quality.
- Your passion for QA practices and technologies is an asset that can benefit our entire engineering team.
- Openness to giving and receiving feedback is a cornerstone of your approach in ensuring a safe and inclusive work environment.

Why join us here at Datacom?
Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. We have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.
We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses to name a few. You’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect and bring your true self to work. You will be recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment.
We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.
We want Datacom to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace for everyone and take pride in the steps we have taken and continue to take to make our environment fun and friendly, and our people feel supported.

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