Development & QA Manager

Development & QA Manager

We’re looking for a Development & QA Manager to lead our Fresh engineering team and oversee the development, testing and operation of the technology estate behind our products, ensuring everything is delivered to a high standard and without reliance on any one individual.

This is a leadership-focused role, suited to a senior technical professional ready to guide and develop people, strengthen engineering quality, improve security and compliance, and drive the shift from largely manual testing to greater automation and AI-assisted ways of working. Working within an established delivery and release process, you’ll bring clear direction, build team capability, reduce key-person dependencies and help create a more efficient, resilient and scalable engineering function

• Lead the Development and QA team, providing clear direction, support and structure across both permanent team members and contractors.
• Own the engineering estate behind the Fresh products, ensuring systems are well run, properly documented and not dependent on any one individual.
• Improve engineering quality and efficiency, helping products to be built, tested and operated to a consistently high standard.
• Drive the move from manual testing to greater automation, including setting plans and targets for improved automated test coverage.
• Embed AI-assisted development and testing into day-to-day work, helping the team adopt modern tools and ways of working.
• Strengthen security and compliance practices, including access reviews, vulnerability reporting and responding to partner or customer security requirements.
• Reduce key-person dependency and build team resilience, making sure critical systems and processes have shared ownership and better knowledge capture.
• Support delivery within an established product operations process, improving engineering performance without redesigning the wider delivery model.
• Communicate technical risk clearly to partners, customers and non-technical colleagues.
• Build a confident, well-supported team with clear direction, regular coaching and strong day-to-day leadership.
• Create a more resilient engineering function by reducing single-person dependency and improving documentation and shared ownership.
• Raise engineering quality and efficiency by increasing automation and reducing the reliance on manual testing.
• Embed AI-assisted ways of working so modern tooling becomes part of the team’s everyday approach.
• Strengthen security and compliance so risks are managed well and partner or customer technical queries are handled with confidence.

The right candidate for this role will have:

• Experience as a senior developer, with existing management experience or the capability to run a team; past coaching experience or leading people informally is desirable.
• Knowledge of M365, SharePoint, Azure stack and Azure subscription administration
• Experience of CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Copilot or Azure DevOps, and code quality tools such as SonarQube.
• Experience with test automation and tooling.
• Exposure to AI-assisted development and testing; and how to structure knowledge and documentation for AI tooling to work effectively.

Our Selection Process:

We are committed to ensuring an equitable experience for all candidates, regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

Please do let us know if you’ll need any reasonable adjustments as part of the selection process by highlighting these on your application form. We are proud to be an accredited Disability Confident employer in the UK and strive to recruit a diverse workforce in all of our markets to reflect society as a whole.

As part of our commitment to our clients, we will need to carry out background checks, including a criminal record check, for all offers of employment. If you have any unspent criminal convictions or questions about the screening process, please notify your recruiter once the application has been submitted.

We will provide a competitive salary for the position. Our benefits can be found here.