Quality Assurance Manager-Wealth Management

Posted 20 January 2026
Salary £700 per day
LocationHorsham
Job type Contract
Discipline Commodities and Financial Services

Job description

Job Title: Quality Assurance Manager-Wealth Management

Location: - Horsham-3Days/week Onsite

Duration: 6months+ Contract Inside IR35

700GBP/Day Inside IR35


Key Responsibilities

Quality Governance

  • Define, maintain, and enforce quality standards for product development and operations.

  • Oversee adherence to the new PDLC across all domain teams.

  • Conduct quality reviews for requirements, architecture, delivery processes, and release readiness.

  • Ensure consistency in definitions, acceptance criteria, documentation, and operational discipline.

Supervisory Quality Control

  • Act as the top-level reviewer for quality risks across all streams.

  • Monitor compliance via audits, checkpoints, and quality gates.

  • Identify deviations from agreed standards and initiate corrective actions.

  • Possess authority to block releases or milestones that fail to meet quality criteria.

Product Quality Oversight

  • Validate that product increments meet business goals and customer expectations.

  • Ensure quality is embedded early (“shift-left”) and is transparent across domains.

  • Monitor non-functional quality: performance, resilience, operational readiness.

  • Process Quality & Operational Excellence

  • Track and enforce process discipline across planning, delivery, and support activities.

  • Maintain clarity and consistency around ways of working:

  • PDLC steps

  • Readiness/done criteria

  • Documentation rules

  • Compliance requirements

  • Ensure teams follow proper standards for decision-making, change control, and release procedures.

Cross-Team Alignment

  • Work closely with Program Management, Product Owners, Architects, Team Leads, and QA teams.

  • Facilitate quality governance ceremonies and cross-domain reviews.

  • Ensure operational practices are unified across all domains.

Risk & Quality Reporting

  • Maintain a quality risk register and escalate issues early.

  • Provide regular reports on compliance, gaps, trends, and improvements.

  • Advise leadership on quality posture and potential impact on delivery.

Required Skills & Experience

  • Quality Governance, PMO, Delivery Management, Product Development, or similar experience

  • Solid understanding of software development, product lifecycle, and delivery processes.

  • Experience in enterprise-scale programs or transformations.

  • Ability to supervise teams (without direct people management).

  • Excellent communication and documentation skills.

  • Experience conducting quality audits, reviews, or compliance assessments.

  • Ability to challenge decisions constructively and enforce standards when needed.

Strong Plus

  • Technical background in engineering, architecture, or QA.

  • Experience with cloud transformations.

  • Experience in PDLC-oriented organizations (product companies).

  • Familiarity with operational readiness, SRE concepts, or release governance.

Must have skills:

  • Governance, Risk and Compliance

  • Quality compliance & Product quality

  • Software Quality Standards

Apply now!