Expleo
QE Governance Lead
City of London
Posted about 18 hours ago
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Overview
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, including:
- Digital Customer Experience Platforms
- Low-Code Development Platforms
- Enterprise Business Applications
- CRM and Business Process Platforms
- Data & Analytics Solutions
- Cloud-Based Platforms and Services
- SQL and Data Management Technologies
- AI and Intelligent Product Ecosystems
- Business Intelligence and Reporting Platforms
- API and Integration Platforms
- Event-Driven Architectures
- Machine Learning Solutions
- Intelligent Workflow and Decisioning Platforms
- 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.
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Essential skills
- 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.
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Experience
- 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
Benefits
- Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
- We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
- Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
- Competitive company benefits
- Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo
- 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
- “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
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Skills
Quality Governance
Risk Assurance
Release Oversight
Test Strategy
Stakeholder Management
Automation-first
Continuous Testing
Governance Frameworks
Defect Management
KPI Definition
Supplier Governance
Agile
DevOps
API Testing
Data Management
AI-assisted Testing
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