Head of Quality Assurance (Engineering), UK

Engineering      ·       London, UK       ·       Full time

Giving the world more time. 

For the first time in human history we have the technology, data, and insights to redefine health. Together with our partners, we will make the leap from reactive to proactive medicine. By collectively benefiting from the data we individually generate, we can all live our longest, fullest lives.  Huma partners with scientists, technologists, healthcare, and life sciences professionals to understand, treat, and ultimately prevent ill health. Giving knowledge and power to those with medical conditions, while saving clinicians time, energy, and valuable resources. 

This is a hybrid position based in London, members of the engineering team are required to be in the office on Wednesdays and Fridays.

Your mission

• Work in close collaboration with developers, product owners, technical teams and third-party suppliers to ensure effective, positive testing outcomes
• Complete investigations of system performance characteristics and automated system test fails
• Design, implement & maintain test suite automation
• Support and maintain tests, infrastructure and tools
• Provide leadership and technical expertise to our QA team
• Direct QA strategy, methodology, disciplines and frameworks
• Work closely with our engineering heads and product teams to develop and implement best practices in QA
• Allocate and plan QA resources appropriately to deliver against our ambitious roadmap

From day one in this role, we’ll expect you to have

• Experience of working with Agile Methodologies e.g. Scrum, Kanban
• Strong communication skills with an open and collaborative approach
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise your workload effectively
• A high level of attention to detail
• Experience working closely with product owners and other stakeholders
• Motivation to deliver exceptional services to our customers
• Experience line managing QA engineers 
• A track record of successfully testing web and app based products, as well as APIs
• Proven experience of shaping and implementing QA strategies
• Strong manual and automation technical background, ideally in an agile environment
• The ability to build, implement and direct quality assurance principles and maintain the quality and pace of delivery
• Knowledge of tools such as Jira, Slack and Figma

It’s great, but not required, if you have

• Healthcare experience 
• Performance test automation experience

You will thrive at Huma if you are

• A strong communicator – you practice open and clear dialogue, while listening with fairness
• Detail oriented – working with people’s health means we obsess over every detail and make sure we get it right
• A problem-solver – a passion to creatively find solutions that solve one of the biggest global challenges – human longevity
• A builder – you roll up your sleeves and get things done

What we can offer you

• Progressive private health insurance with AXA Health
• EAP scheme and gym membership discount with AXA
• AIG Life & income protection scheme
• Generous share options – every employee is an owner
• 25 days paid vacation + UK bank holidays
• Home office allowance to support home working
• Bike2Work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Family first culture – giving the flexibility you need
• Growth & development opportunities

Come join us!  

We believe magic happens when you bring together diverse ideas, experiences, and styles. We want to create a world where people live longer, fuller lives, and to do that well we need a team that represents all of the people and communities who use our solutions. We aspire to create an environment where everyone has the opportunity to do their best work. We are always looking for ways to improve so if you have any suggestions, please get in touch. 

Huma is committed to ensuring the safety of all current and prospective global employees during the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic. We’ve developed technology-enabled recruitment and on-boarding processes, all Huma people have been provided with a home office allowance and we’ve developed a progressive communications model. We will continue to adapt as we work together in this new world of distributed working.

Dear recruitment agency friends: Huma attracts an amazing number of direct candidates and we do not need any help at this stage, so please do not send us unsolicited agency resumes. This is not a great use of your time, and we will not accept any liability or fees for any resumes or candidates which we have not asked you to find for us.

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