Test Lead (Strategy/Quality)
Location: Northern based priority – can commute to either Newcastle or Manchester site once per week
The Company:
At Amber Labs, we are a cutting-edge UK and European technology consultancy that prioritises empowering autonomy, promoting experimentation, and facilitating rapid learning to provide exceptional value to our clients. Our company culture is centred around collaboration, where all colleagues, regardless of their role, work together to minimise risk and shorten delivery times. Our team consists of highly-skilled cross-functional consultants, analysts, and support staff.
We are looking for a Test Strategy Lead to define and implement a comprehensive quality strategy across Integration Services’ products. You will collaborate closely with our test engineers, development teams, and leadership to set the direction for quality assurance, and establish a testing framework that aligns with our product goals.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop a strategic testing framework and quality assurance roadmap that aligns with our product development objectives.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, product managers, and test engineers, to define the testing framework.
Integration Services’ products are used by multiple teams. Establish a testing approach that covers dependencies across those other teams and supports their own testing when onboarding to Integration products.
Provide leadership and guidance to ensure test engineers adopt the strategy and adhere to best practices.
Work with Service Management to assess live incidents and identify their root causes to continuously refine and improve the testing strategy, addressing quality issues that lead to such incidents.
Define and manage a strategy for creating and maintaining reusable test data sets to support all testing efforts.
Drive quality improvement initiatives and foster a culture of accountability for product quality.
Ensure the testing strategy supports continuous integration, automation, and modern software delivery practices.
Requirements:
Proven experience in defining and implementing quality strategies in a technical software environment.
Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to build consensus and achieve buy-in across teams.
Experience in responding to live incidents and adapting test strategies to prevent future occurrences.
Expertise in coordinating testing efforts across multiple teams and ensuring quality for interdependent systems or projects.
Familiarity with modern testing practices, tools, and methodologies, including automation and continuous integration.
Ability to assess current testing practices and identify areas for improvement.
Experience of test strategies and tooling that relate to the following technologies will be an advantage: Java, JavaScript, Node, TypeScript, Terraform, Ansible, Packer.
Benefits:
Join a rapidly expanding start-up where personal growth is a part of our DNA.
Benefit from a flexible work environment focused on deliverable outcomes.
Receive private medical insurance through Aviva.
Enjoy the benefits of a company pension plan through Nest.
25 days of annual leave plus UK bank holidays.
Access Perkbox, a global employee rewards platform offering discounts, perks, and wellness resources.
Participate in a generous employee referral program.
A highly collaborative and collegial environment with opportunities for career advancement.
Be encouraged to take bold steps and embrace a mindset of experimentation.
Choose your preferred device, PC or Mac.
Diversity & Inclusion:
Here at Amber Labs, we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace for all. Our commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion includes:
Valuing the unique experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds of all employees and creating an environment where everyone feels welcomed, respected, and valued.
Prohibiting all forms of harassment, bullying, discrimination, and victimisation and promoting a culture of dignity and respect for all.
Educating all new hires on our Diversity and Inclusion policies and ensuring they are aware of their rights and responsibilities to create a safe and inclusive workplace.
By taking these steps, we are dedicated to building a workplace that reflects and celebrates the diversity of our employees and communities.
At Amber Labs, all employees are required to meet the Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). Please be advised that, at this time, we are unable to consider candidates who require sponsorship or hold a visa of any type.
What Happens Next?
Our Talent Acquisition Team will be in touch to advise you on the next steps. We have a two-stage interview process for most of our consultants. In certain cases, we may include a third and final stage, which is a conversation with the company Partners. This will only be considered if deemed necessary.
Top Skills
What We Do
Amber Labs is a partnership of highly-skilled consultants and technologists.
We specialise in the evolution of Data Engineering, Cloud and Analytics.
We focus on delivering value from our client’s data using innovative approaches that reduce risk and delivery time, and that we are constantly improving through R&D.
Amber Labs was founded on three key principles:
An employee first internal culture, through diverse investment and exciting opportunities for our team, and a partnership structure ensuring everyone has an opportunity to share in the success of Amber Labs.
Persistent analysis to identify opportunities to develop artefacts, accelerators and automation that allow rapid deployment of highly-technical solutions to the cloud or on-premise for our clients.
Consistent investment into our ADM (Amber Labs Delivery Methodology -underpinned by Agile Methodology) to ensure we maximise velocity, quality and value
