You will line manage and guide a multi-skilled quality and test team, ensuring they have the resources and skills to deliver end-to-end quality outcomes for products.

You will define and own testing strategy across portfolios, aligning quality with architecture, risk and compliance.

Your responsibilities include mentoring and coaching your team members, recruiting diverse and talented individuals, and promoting a culture of collaboration, learning, and respect. 

You will work closely with Engineering functions across Sainsbury’s Tech to define the vision and testing and quality processes, as well as providing end to end testing of multiple initiatives, deliveries and products.

Promoting best practise for quality and testing, across our teams and initiatives. 

Additionally, you will manage initiative-level budgets, ensure adherence to processes and standards, and demonstrate positive attitudes and behaviours that contribute to a culture of excellence and inclusivity.

You build strong teams across manual and automation, and you grow test leads, engineers and analysts in both. 

You are a passionate and experienced engineering leader with a deep understanding of automated testing practises and a talent for coaching and developing teams.

With a strong understanding of technology environments, you lead by example and inspire your colleagues, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. 

Your technical expertise combined with your ability to prioritise and manage multiple deliveries, enables you to drive the successful development and delivery of large-scale platforms. 

You excel in making well-informed technical decisions and implementing best practises, while also managing Capex and Opex responsibilities, across a blended function of both on and off-shore. 

With your strong leadership and communication skills, you build strong relationships at all levels and contribute to the inclusive and diverse culture that Sainsbury's Tech values.

Line management: You have line managed an engineering or test team, including test leads and automation engineers, with evidence of recruitment, coaching and performance management.

Test/Quality Engineering leadership across manual and automation: You have set technical direction for teams delivering both manual and automated quality and testing.

Enterprise or portfolio test strategy: You have defined and owned a testing or QA strategy across multiple teams, products or a portfolio.

Automation vision and ROI: You have built or scaled a test or quality automation capability and can evidence the return, such as reduced regression time, increased coverage or lower maintenance cost.

Quality governance and metrics: You have owned defect lifecycle, severity and escalation models, and used quality data to drive improvement across teams.