QA Manager

The Access Group is one of the leading providers of business management software to small and mid-sized organizations in the UK, Ireland, and Asia Pacific. Over the past years, we’ve gone from almost 1,000 to 6,000 people. We help over 60,000 customers across commercial and not-for-profit sectors become more productive and efficient.
Our Global Operations Center in Romania is on a journey of continuous growth and want to engage with top talent around the country. Headquartered in Timisoara, we offer you the possibility to work remote and join our offices at your choice.
Helping everyone at Access Love work and Love life is at the heart of everything we do. It shapes how we do things and allows us to create a place where people want to be and can be at their best.
We’re passionate about our values, which guide how we all make decisions and get things done. We love to make our customers lives easier so our value to ‘Make Access better every day’ is one we’re obsessed with. From attracting the right people, helping them grow and be the best they can be, we’re helping people at Access to love what they do and be happy.

As a well-rounded Quality Assurance Manager your Skills and Experiences likely include:

Essential
• Experience in automation testing of multiple integrations
• Experience of E2E UI web automation
• Experience with testing and automation at API layers
• Experience creating and maintaining platform services consumed by other teams
• Experience working with global teams and parallel work streams
• Strong experience of working in a fast-paced, Agile environment
• Strong experience of working with SaaS or web-based products
• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• Excellent understanding of Risk and how to manage it, including Risk-based Testing
• Comprehensive testing experience and excellent understanding of test approaches and techniques, including specific approaches for SaaS products
• Strong decision-making skills
• Pragmatic, positive, competitive, assertive, commercially aware and driven to continuous learning/improvement
• Experience of implementing QA best practice within a fast moving, agile environment
• Willingness to travel to other offices on occasion to liaise with other teams
• Willingness to occasionally work out of hours to deliver software releases
• Experience in cultivating a sustained continuous improvement culture
• Undertake any other ad-hoc duties
• Solid understanding of how to structure automation to achieve robust, efficient and scalable test packs, including the automation infrastructure required
• Non-functional testing (performance/load/volume preferably)

Day-to-day, you will:

• Work closely with multiple engineering teams to ensure quality across multiple teams with end-to-end testing
• Be responsible for developing and implementing strategies for quality testing of our products
• Proactively engage with multiple engineering teams to understand areas of excellence and where processes can be improved
• Hold regular engagements with the engineering teams to help build awareness of best practices and encourage self-improvement
• Identify and drive improvement programmes across all areas of the engineering
• Advise and guide all quality stakeholders on the approaches the teams should take, to deliver quality deliverables
• Drive the development of QA and Agile processes and improvements
• Report on progress and areas of risk, including metrics where requested
• Provide motivational leadership, mentoring and coaching to the team, including on testing techniques and approaches, and the continuous improvement of these
• Work in accordance with the company’s policies and procedures

What does Access offer you?

We are a growing software company and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously! We will work with you to carve out your success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference.
• Healthy, friendly, and inclusive culture
• Work - life balance
• Hybrid/Remote working
• Flexible working hours
• Competitive salary package
• Great Holiday Package (starting from 25)
• Charity day – day off paid by the company for volunteering activities
• Private Healthcare & Life Insurance
• Sport Allowance
• Meal tickets
• Referral Bonus
• Christmas Bonus
• Big Break – all-inclusive holiday paid by the company
• Other benefits