QA Manager - SIEM/Security Focused
We're partnering with a leading telco organisation to implement a new Network SIEM, essential for network security, meeting regulatory requirements, and improving cybersecurity assessment.
We usually respond within three days
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.
By submitting your application you give us permission to store and use the information from your CV and your answers to application questions.
- Department
- Elastic Team
- Locations
- Birmingham
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
- Employment type
- Contract
Workplace & culture
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.
The Company 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.
About Distributed
We are Distributed: we help businesses deliver technical projects better than ever before through our on-demand Elastic Teams.
Last year alone Distributed won 5 awards including 2 awards for growth, most disruptive startup in Startups 100, Winner in the Deloitte Fast 50 UK, a winner in the Red Herring Europe Top 100, and winner of a global award for Outstanding Reward & Recognition for remote working from The Omnis.
This year BT Digital signed a £30m deal with Distributed to accelerate its digital transformation and innovation agenda by rapidly bringing together multi-skilled digital teams.
We do things differently, we move fast, we are recognised as leaders in our sector, and we look after our people. We are a people company that uses technology to deliver beyond client expectations.
Join us if you want to be part of our Elastic Team community that’s shaping the future of freelance working..
QA Manager - SIEM/Security Focused
We're partnering with a leading telco organisation to implement a new Network SIEM, essential for network security, meeting regulatory requirements, and improving cybersecurity assessment.
Loading application form
Already working at Distributed?
Let’s recruit together and find your next colleague.