Elexon
Quality Assurance Test Lead
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Join Elexon as QA & Test Lead
Shape quality governance, champion Agile testing, and guide suppliers to deliver trusted solutions in an inclusive team shaping energy services.
We’re looking for a QA & Test Lead (Grade 10) to join the Quality Assurance & System Integration Testing team at Elexon on a permanent basis.
In this role, you’ll lead quality assurance across complex products and programmes, ensuring robust testing governance, supplier quality, and consistent delivery standards throughout the software development lifecycle. Working closely with Product teams, Delivery Managers, third-party suppliers and stakeholders, you’ll champion a Shift Left approach, embed quality throughout Agile delivery, and help ensure solutions are delivered to production with the highest possible quality.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced QA professional who enjoys working across Agile environments, influencing delivery teams, and driving continuous improvement.
What you’ll do:
- Lead Quality Assurance governance across products and programmes
- Champion and embed Shift Left testing principles throughout the software development lifecycle
- Define and maintain QA strategies covering functional, integration, performance, regression and acceptance testing
- Govern testing delivered by third-party suppliers, ensuring quality standards and delivery expectations are consistently met
- Define and enforce quality gates and testing completion criteria across delivery lifecycles
- Audit supplier testing processes, artefacts and deliverables to ensure compliance with QA standards
- Work closely with Agile Product teams to embed quality throughout planning, development and delivery
- Develop test governance, reporting, traceability and quality metrics to support delivery confidence
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Architects and technical teams to deliver high-quality solutions
- Drive continuous improvement of QA processes, frameworks and testing best practice
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What you’ll bring:
- Extensive experience as a QA Lead, Test Lead or Quality Assurance Lead
- Strong experience working within Agile and DevOps delivery environments
- Proven experience implementing and championing Shift Left testing practices
- Strong experience using Azure DevOps and Azure Test Plans
- Experience governing testing delivered by third-party suppliers and external delivery partners
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence technical and business teams
- Clear and confident communication skills, with the ability to present quality metrics and testing outcomes to a range of audiences
- Experience developing QA strategies, governance frameworks and quality gates
- Strong understanding of API, integration and microservices testing
- Experience working with SQL and data validation (desirable)
- Experience within the energy, utilities or financial services sectors (desirable)
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What’s in it for you:
- £73,850
- Excellent benefits including bonus, private medical insurance and generous pension scheme
- The opportunity to work within a thriving organisation which can support your growth and development
- We operate a hybrid working approach with 2 days in our London office
Our culture
We believe a diverse and inclusive culture allows innovation and creativity to flourish. We are committed to continuously improving our culture for our colleagues and stakeholders. Through our hugely successful Diversity Forum, Mental Health First Aid network and regular programme of activities and events, we celebrate difference and recognise the value of employee wellbeing, which is a consistent outcome from annual employee surveys that we conduct. Likewise, as a community, we like to support each other, and all agree Elexon is a great place to work with a great workspace too!
At Elexon, we want to:
- Provide true equality of opportunity
- Attract and retain diverse talent
- Listen to all voices
- Be representative of the communities we work in
- Be a role model for Diversity and Inclusion in the industry
Elexon together, embracing differences, listening to all voices
Ready to make an impact? Join us and help shape the future of energy services.
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