2 of 2 Permanent Defect Tracking Jobs in the West Midlands

with business expectations, regulatory obligations and agreed delivery timelines. You will own the end-to-end test approach, manage test planning and execution, oversee defect and risk management, and lead the adoption of test automation and quality engineering practices to improve coverage, efficiency and repeatability. You will provide leadership … integration with the delivery lifecycle. Provide oversight of test execution progress, quality metrics, entry and exit criteria, test evidence and audit traceability. Lead defect management, including triage, prioritisation, escalation, resolution tracking and reporting using tools such as TFS, Azure DevOps or JIRA. Produce clear test status reporting, quality ...

quality gates, reporting, flaky test management, and automated feedback loops to support release confidence and development speed. Promote shift-left testing practices to improve defect prevention and increase early-stage quality ownership across engineering teams. Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) & Embedded Validation Plan, develop, and operate HIL test environments … across hardware, firmware, and application layers. Reporting, Metrics & Release Readiness Produce clear and audience-appropriate test reporting covering execution progress, pass/fail rates, defect trends, coverage, and regression performance. Define and track quality KPIs such as test coverage, automation ratio, defect leakage, escape rate, MTTD/MTTR ...