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QE Governance Lead

Expleo UK LTDLondon🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 4 Sept 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid role offers a fantastic opportunity to shape quality engineering governance across Expleo UK's technology transformation portfolio, driving impactful standards and risk assurance. If you excel at establishing robust quality frameworks and thrive in a collaborative environment that values strategic oversight, you'll find immense growth and the chance to influence critical delivery decisions. Apply now to lead the charge in ensuring exceptional quality across diverse technology initiatives.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Temporary/Casual
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
London, United Kingdom
SQLMachine LearningAgileCRMComplianceRoot Cause Analysis

Job Description

The QE Governance Lead provides independent quality governance, risk assurance, and release oversight across the Technology Transformation portfolio. This role establishes and governs portfolio-wide QE standards, policies, quality gates, metrics, and controls to ensure consistent, auditable, and risk-managed delivery across all transformation programmes and technology domains.

  • Own the Unified Master Test Strategy, quality engineering standards, policies, and governance frameworks.
  • Establish quality gates, risk controls, and release governance across programmes and delivery portfolios.
  • Ensure traceability, auditability, and compliance throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
  • Provide independent quality assurance oversight across transformation and technology initiatives.
  • Review and challenge programme test strategies, coverage models, quality risks, and readiness assessments.
  • Lead quality health checks, assurance reviews, and governance forums.
  • Support executive Go/No-Go decisions through risk-based quality reporting and assurance recommendations.
  • Define portfolio-wide QE KPIs, dashboards, and reporting standards.
  • Govern measures including defect leakage, test effectiveness, automation coverage, release confidence, and production quality.
  • Deliver quality reporting and insights to senior stakeholders, programme leadership teams, and governance forums.
  • Govern testing practices across functional, integration, end-to-end, data, AI, and non-functional testing disciplines.
  • Ensure consistent defect management, root cause analysis, quality controls, and governance compliance.
  • Maintain alignment across Agile, Product-led, Hybrid, and traditional delivery models.

  • Own Quality Engineering strategy and governance across a diverse technology landscape, including:

    • Digital Customer Experience Platforms
    • Low-Code Development Platforms
    • Enterprise Business Applications
    • CRM and Business Process Platforms
    • Data & Analytics Solutions
    • Cloud-Based Platforms and Services
    • SQL and Data Management Technologies
    • AI and Intelligent Product Ecosystems
    • Business Intelligence and Reporting Platforms
    • API and Integration Platforms
    • Event-Driven Architectures
    • Machine Learning Solutions
    • Intelligent Workflow and Decisioning Platforms
  • Partner with Programme Leads, Product Managers, Architects, Delivery Managers, and Quality Leadership teams.
  • Govern supplier quality performance, testing obligations, and delivery assurance activities.
  • Drive consistent adoption of Quality Engineering standards, governance frameworks, and best practices across programmes.
  • Drive quality maturity, standardisation, and governance improvements across the portfolio.
  • Establish reusable templates, frameworks, dashboards, and assurance artefacts.
  • Promote automation-first, continuous testing, and AI-enabled quality practices.
  • Support the development and growth of Quality Engineering Communities of Practice and Centres of Excellence.

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