QA Manager - SIEM/Security Focused

SIEM QA Manager 

Hybrid in Birmingham 2 days/week

To March 2025 

Who are we? 

We're a software development company building the world's Elastic Workforce, reinventing work and challenging the assumption that a local team = the best team. We help businesses deliver technical projects better than ever before through our platform and on-demand Elastic Teams™.

What's in it for you? Our mission is to create freelance jobs with more benefits than permanent.Want to know more? read: https://distributed.co/about

About this role 

We're partnering with a leading telecommunications organisation to implement a new Network SIEM, essential for network security, meeting regulatory requirements, and improving cybersecurity assessment levels. As the SIEM QA Manager, you'll set the overall direction and strategy for testing the SIEM, from developer to user acceptance, resilience, and all other non-functional requirements. You'll ensure that all testing aligns with the organisation's strategy and meets the highest standards of quality and thoroughness.

Your Responsibilities As our SIEM QA Manager, you will:

As our SIEM QA Manager, you will coordinate teams to deliver product quality strategies for a range of service offerings and products. You'll oversee test strategies for business-critical initiatives, lead the identification of quality risks, and ensure efficient delivery of high-quality outcomes. Your role will involve spearheading automated testing initiatives, implementing new testing methodologies and tools to support agile development, and coordinating the design of test automation solutions. You'll foster an open collaboration culture, set and evaluate performance metrics for the QA team, and champion emerging trends in QA engineering best practices. Additionally, you'll coach and manage talent, implement process improvements, and play a key role in developing capabilities within the software engineering team. Your expertise will be crucial in ensuring comprehensive testing across all aspects of the SIEM implementation, from developer to user acceptance, including resilience and non-functional requirements.

About You We're looking for passionate technologists who enjoy working in collaborative agile teams. You'll need to be a clear, concise & engaging communicator with people on your team. We enjoy the big picture and the detail; we want people who excel at both.

• Experienced hands-on QA engineer with specific skills in
  • Test management 
  • Test automation frameworks 
  • User acceptance testing 
  • Test strategy creation and execution 
  • Regression testing 
  • Integration testing
  • Performance testing 
  • Scalability testing 
  • Resilience testing 
  • Functional/non-functional testing
• Experience in security applications, particularly SIEM
• Preferred experience in Elastic-based systems QA
• Expertise in test management and test automation frameworks
• Strong skills in user acceptance testing, test strategy creation and execution
• Experience with regression, integration, performance, scalability, and resilience testing
• Proficiency in functional and non-functional testing
• Ability to leverage service virtualisation for testing
• Strong leadership skills with a focus on coaching and developing team members

About us 

Distributed is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Employees and contractors, as well as prospective employees and contractors, will all be treated equally and fairly. Distributed is committed to ensuring no less favourable treatment is experienced by any current or prospective employee because of any of the protected characteristics under the UK Equality Act 2010 or equivalent local equality legislation.

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