Quality Engineering Manager

**Company Description**
Welcome to This Australian Life.

From the millions of Australians we protect, to those that make it happen every day at TAL, people really are what we’re all about. We want to grow with you. Achieve with you. And support you to do your best work. That's why we're focused on developing leadership, promoting diversity, rewarding excellence and retaining great talent.

We're always looking for people who want to go further with us. People who do what’s right, aim high, and work smart. Why not see where we can go?

As the Quality Engineering Manager, you will play a pivotal role in driving our organization's transformation towards true DevOps practices, ensuring quality and safety is built into our Digital Engineering practices.

Your primary responsibility will be to lead and oversee the Quality Engineering function. Ensure that all aspects of quality assurance, including engineering practices around unit testing\integration testing, functional UI testing, performance, security quality assurance processes are consolidated into a cohesive and efficient practice to ship our Digital products faster and safer to production.

You will be instrumental in integrating quality engineering practices seamlessly into our development pods and deployment chain, enabling us to deliver high-quality software products to our customers faster and more reliably. Key to your success will be your ability to lead and inspire a team of quality engineers and developers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

By championing best practices in quality engineering and driving strategic initiatives, you will be at the forefront of our journey towards Digital excellence in digital engineering and digital product delivery.

Key Accountabilities:

- Develop and communicate a comprehensive quality strategy aligned with the goals and objectives of the Digital Engineering teams and business lines. incorporating modern Digital engineering, cloud-native development methodologies and best practices.
- Lead and mentor a team of quality engineers and testing professionals, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning to support the delivery of high-quality digital products.
- Inspire the broader Digital engineering community to take ownership in quality as part of their day to day development activities.
- Establish and optimise quality assurance processes and methodologies, including QE automation frameworks, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, and modern testing techniques (e.g., shift-left testing, behaviour-driven development, AppSec, Load testing etc).
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate quality engineering practices seamlessly into the DevOps pipeline and DevOps ways of working. Ensure that quality is built into every stage of the software development lifecycle.
- Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies for digital products, encompassing functional, non-functional (performance, security), and usability testing, and leveraging automation to improve testing efficiency and coverage.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance quality engineering processes, tools, and practices, staying abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to introduce innovative solutions that improve product quality and delivery speed.
- Build and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders, including product owners, developers, designers, and senior leadership, to ensure alignment on quality objectives and priorities, and communicate progress, outcomes, and challenges related to quality engineering initiatives.
- Identify and mitigate quality-related risks, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, security standards, and industry best practices, and implement processes and controls to monitor and manage risks effectively.
- Evaluate and select appropriate testing tools and technologies and manage relationships with vendors to ensure that the team has access to the necessary resources and support to execute quality engineering activities effectively.

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent.
- 5+ years of quality assurance and Or Engineering experience.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI)
- Knowledge of performance testing tools and techniques (e.g., JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner)
- Understanding of security testing concepts and tools (e.g., OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite, SonarQube)
- Experience in non-functional testing areas (e.g., accessibility, compatibility, usability testing)
- Hands-on experience with test planning, test designing and execution, performance, and stress testing, implementing and maintaining quality test automation of both client and server systems.
- Analytical and problem-solving experience.
- Proficiency in test automation tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Playwright)
- Familiarity