Oho Group
Quality Assurance Engineer
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Software Quality & Continuous Improvement Engineer
Location: Cambridgeshire – Office Based
Start: ASAP
Working Pattern: Fully office-based
Sponsorship: Not available
The Opportunity
We’re looking for a technically minded Software Quality & Continuous Improvement Engineer to help improve how software engineering teams work.
This is not a traditional Test Engineer role. The focus is on embedding quality throughout the development lifecycle, improving processes and standards, and identifying better ways of working.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Work with software teams to improve quality across the development lifecycle.
- Review existing processes and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Challenge established ways of working and recommend practical changes.
- Work with engineers to understand technical requirements, risks and issues.
- Help embed quality earlier in the development process rather than relying solely on end-stage testing.
- Support Agile/Scrum practices and engineering standards.
- Coach and support teams around quality and best practice.
- Communicate recommendations and risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Take ownership of improvement initiatives through to completion.
- Where appropriate, provide team leadership and Scrum Master-style support.
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What We’re Looking For
Technical Background
We’re ideally looking for someone who has worked in a technical engineering environment, such as:
- Software Engineer / Developer
- Technical Engineer
- Software Development professional
- Technical QA professional with strong engineering experience
You don't need to be coding every day, but you must understand how software is developed and be able to have credible conversations with engineers.
Confidence & Influence
You should be:
- Comfortable challenging existing processes.
- Confident putting forward new ideas.
- Able to challenge technical stakeholders constructively.
- Proactive and comfortable taking ownership.
- Forward-thinking and focused on continuous improvement.
Quality, Not Just Testing
This role is about Quality Assurance rather than simply Software Testing. You’ll focus on improving the processes, practices and engineering approaches that produce quality software, rather than primarily executing test cases or finding defects.
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Experience & Skills
We’re particularly interested in candidates with:
- A strong technical/software engineering background.
- Experience working alongside software development teams.
- Good understanding of the software development lifecycle.
- Experience in QA, software quality, engineering processes or continuous improvement.
- Strong Agile/Scrum knowledge.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Experience identifying and implementing process improvements.
- Ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences.
Desirable
- Team or technical leadership experience.
- Scrum Master experience or mindset.
- Hands-on software engineering experience.
- Coaching or mentoring experience.
- Experience improving engineering processes.
- Scripting, automation or software development experience.
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