Salary: Up to £50k Depending on experience

Location: Sheffield

ZOO works with the biggest names in the entertainment industry. We help Hollywood studios, global broadcasters, online retailers and independent distributors reach audiences everywhere through our innovative cloud-based software.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our award-winning Sheffield based research and development team as QA Manager.

We are looking for a hands-on QA Manager to work within our challenging but exciting R&D team.  The role is based in our Sheffield office and is a full-time, permanent position. The role has line management responsibility for a QA Team of 5, with the potential for this to increase.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of QA Engineers working across multiple projects with competing schedules.
• Work closely with the development team to define and deliver the appropriate QA strategy for the product
• Working with the VP of Software Engineering to define the overarching test strategy and test environments required for all products
• Identify and resolve gaps in testing strategy, capability and execution.
• Task assignment, team coordination, monitoring the team’s progress and reporting to Senior management on coverage progress throughout the testing cycle
• Ownership of the quality assurance strategy
• Working with project and product management to define project resource plans for all products
• Working with senior managers to define the product roadmap
• Identify new treads within testing, deploying appropriate technologies and keeping the team at the forefront of Quality Assurance.
• Being hands on, where needed to help out the testing effort on all products to help us deliver on-time, at the right quality.

Essential Skills and attributes:

• Exceptional experience and proven ability in the leadership of Software Testing/Quality assurance teams at a commercial level.
• Ability to lead from the front and have a hands-on approach
• Excellent planning and work prioritisation skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills including facilitation, negotiation, collaboration and influencing
• Ability to maintain and develop constructive & effective working relationships across the business
• Experience of working in a fast-paced agile development environment
• Strong desire for quality and high attention to detail
• Experience working with senior managers to improve processes across the team
• Experience of manual testing in an Agile environment
• Experience with bug tracking and test management systems
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• A high level of initiative with ability to self-manage
• An ability to change pace very quickly & and multi-task

Benefits & Rewards

We employ the brightest and most original thinkers in our industry. We value all the folks that make ZOO a great place to work. Along with a competitive salary we also offer a wide range of benefits which include:

• Flexi time
• Pension scheme
• Free city centre parking
• 25 days holiday
• Free fruit and snacks
• Staff Socials
• Share scheme (save as you earn)
• Reward and Benefits Portal - ZOOPerks