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Release Quality Manager
Team - Engineering Standards
Job Title: Release Quality Manager
Working Pattern: Hybrid – 2 days per week at Vitality Bournemouth, London, or Stockport Office. Full-time hours.
We are happy to discuss flexible working!
Top 3 Skills for this Role
- Expertise in release quality governance
- Proven leadership in performance testing
- Strong stakeholder influence and collaboration experience
What This Role Entails
As a Release Quality Manager, you’ll ensure that our technology is release-ready, championing standards, governance, and insight in quality engineering across the IT estate. Working closely with agile engineering teams and external partners, your focus will be on:
- Embedding best-in-class testing practices
- Driving performance testing excellence
- Ensuring every release meets the highest standards before production
Ideal for someone who thrives on collaboration, loves converting data into actionable insights, and is passionate about continuous process improvement in software testing, delivery, and engineering.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure all software releases meet agreed test engineering standards before deployment, confirming quality and production readiness
- Champion and embed release quality standards, governance, and best practices across multiple agile teams
- Lead the performance testing roadmap, including oversight of third-party performance testing partners
- Collaborate closely with:
- Engineering Managers
- Principal Test Engineers
- Wider IT teams to drive quality throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
- Monitor, analyse, and report on:
- Quality metrics
- KPIs
- Testing outcomes to support continuous improvement initiatives
- Identify gaps in testing standards and propose:
- Recommendations for improvement
- Escalations where necessary
- Support release governance by contributing to decision-making forums, ensuring quality considerations are well understood
- Partner with internal and external stakeholders to ensure compliance with enterprise testing frameworks, tools, and methodologies
- Help shape and continuously improve testing, quality, and release processes across the IT function
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Requirements to Thrive in This Role
- Proven experience in:
- Software testing
- Quality engineering
- Release management within complex IT environments
- Deep understanding of:
- Testing methodologies
- Tools
- Frameworks
- Ability to embed governance, standards, and quality controls across multiple teams and stakeholders
- Experience in agile delivery environments, collaborating with cross-functional teams
- Strong analytical and numerical skills, with a data-driven mindset for tracking KPIs and identifying improvement opportunities
- Strategic thinking to balance long-term vision with daily quality activities
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with confidence to:
- Challenge
- Influence at all levels of the organisation
- Ability to:
- Prioritise effectively
- Manage multiple workstreams
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment
- A continuous improvement mindset focused on enhancing:
- Quality
- Processes
- Performance
- ISTQB Foundation (or equivalent) certification in Software Testing
Benefits
| Piece of the Jigsaw | Unwrap These Perks |
|---|---|
| Bonus Schemes | Regularly rewards performance and achievements |
| Pension | Up to 12% matching (matching your contributions up to 6% of salary) |
| Health Insurance | Award-winning Vitality health insurance, including unique rewards system |
| Life Assurance | Cover of four times annual salary |
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Our Promise to You
If you join Vitality, we commit to:
- Keeping you at your healthiest ever with tailored support and incentives
- Creating an inclusive environment where you can be your best self
- Providing flexible work arrangements:
- How
- Where
- When
- Supporting career advancement by playing to your strengths and strengths
- Empowering your voice to help:
- Grow the business
- Make Vitality an inspiring place to be
- Encouraging innovation through:
- Trying, failing
- Learning from experiences
- Maintaining a work-life balance that challenges you while supporting your growth
- Recognising and rewarding you with:
- Competitive salary
- Competitive benefits
- Supporting you when you need it, ensuring you feel valued
- Offering opportunities to be a force for societal good through work and community impact
We promise these things because we want you to belong. Our commitment ensures your happiness, health, and well-being at the core of Vitality’s journey.
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