Quality Assurance Manager

Competitive salary plus benefits

The Quality Assurance Manager is responsible for overseeing and managing all phases of testing across the Corporate Services Business Unit. This role ensures alignment with Quality Engineering standards, drives continuous improvement, and promotes a strong quality-first culture. The QA Manager collaborates with stakeholders, suppliers, and central QE teams to deliver high-quality solutions within agreed timelines and budgets.

Please be advised that this position requires attendance at Asda House in Leeds for a minimum of three days per week. We’re really looking forward to having you around!

We welcome applications from candidates seeking part-time hours, flexible working arrangements, or job share opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end testing activities, ensuring alignment with QE guidelines and frameworks.
• Define testing scope, approach, and resource requirements based on business demand.
• Partner with business stakeholders to assess testing demand, agree on team size, and ensure delivery within budget.
• Act as the primary QA point of contact for Corporate Services.
• Engage and manage third-party testing teams to deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Liaise with suppliers to ensure adherence to testing best practices and quality standards.
• Collaborate closely with the central QE team to adopt best practices, tools, and frameworks.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across testing processes.
• Assess and define requirements for test automation, non-functional testing, and service quality.
• Ensure appropriate engagement with QE technical specialists when required.
• Work with environment leads to support effective test environment planning, availability, and management.
• Champion the importance of quality and testing within Business Units.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement and proactive quality assurance.
• Actively participate in Communities of Practice (CoP) sessions.
• Share insights, lessons learned and contribute to organisational QA maturity.

Key Deliverables

• Test Strategy documentation
• Detailed Test Plans
• Test Closure Reports
• QA-related partner/third party deliverables
• Test Scenarios
• Test Scripts (manual and/or automated)

Skills & Experience

• Strong experience in QA and test management across complex environments
• Knowledge of QE frameworks, automation tools, and non-functional testing
• Proven stakeholder and vendor management skills
• Excellent communication and leadership abilities
• Experience working in Agile and/or DevOps environments (preferred)
• Experience of working with Playwrite for automation, jira, zepher and loadrunner (preferred)

Apply today by completing an online application…

If you have any questions about the role, then please email [email protected]

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To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus

• Company pension up to 7% matched

• Company Car allowance of £5,700

• 15% colleague discount in store and online

• Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.

• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated

• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves