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Working at Pets at Home

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    • United Kingdom
    • Guernsey

    Office locations

    Lead quality engineering as the Portfolio Test Lead at Pets at Home in our Handforth Support Office. This is a hybrid role where you will manage test teams, define testing strategy, and collaborate with technology leaders to deliver exceptional customer experiences across our digital platforms.

    Requirements

    • Proven track record of leading testing across complex portfolios or large-scale technology environments.
    • Experience developing and leading high-performing testing teams.
    • Strong knowledge of quality assurance, test automation, and modern engineering practices.
    • Experience working in Agile environments with modern DevOps and CI/CD practices.
    • Ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.
    • No specific degree or minimum years of experience are explicitly stated.

    Skills & Responsibilities

    • Quality Strategy: Define and evolve our technology-wide testing and quality strategy to balance pace, innovation, and risk.
    • Team Leadership: Lead, coach, and inspire testing professionals, including Test Managers and Agile Software Test Engineers.
    • Test Automation: Champion modern quality engineering practices, test automation, and continuous improvement.
    • Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with Product, Delivery, and Technology leads to provide clear quality insights and recommendations.
    • Risk Mitigation: Identify and mitigate risks relating to performance, security, accessibility, and compliance.
    • Potential transition routes: People from Test Manager or QA Lead roles may bring strong leadership and quality assurance skills, alongside meeting the requirement for managing large-scale testing environments.

    Job description

    Portfolio Test Lead

    Technology | Hybrid | Handforth Support Office

    Love quality. Thrive on leadership. Want to shape how technology is delivered across one of the UK's leading pet care businesses?

    At Pets at Home, we're transforming how we serve pets and pet owners through technology. As our Portfolio Test Lead, you'll play a critical role in ensuring quality is built into everything we deliver, helping us create seamless, reliable and customer-focused experiences across our digital platforms.

    About the Role

    This isn't just a testing role. It's an opportunity to lead quality across a complex technology portfolio, influence delivery at a strategic level and build a culture where quality is everyone's responsibility.

    Reporting to the Head of IT Delivery, you'll lead and develop a team of Test Managers and Agile Software Test Engineers while partnering with Product, Delivery and Technology leaders to ensure our solutions are robust, scalable and fit for the future. You'll be the driving force behind our quality strategy, helping teams balance pace, innovation and risk without compromising customer experience.

    What you'll be doing

    • Defining and evolving our technology-wide testing and quality strategy.
    • Leading, coaching and inspiring testing professionals to achieve their full potential.
    • Championing modern quality engineering practices, automation and continuous improvement.
    • Working closely with Delivery and Portfolio Leads to ensure quality is considered from day one.
    • Providing clear quality insights and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
    • Identifying and mitigating risks relating to performance, security, accessibility and compliance.
    • Helping shape the future of quality engineering across a growing technology organisation.

    What we're looking for

    You'll be a passionate quality leader who enjoys influencing, coaching and driving positive change.

    You'll bring:

    • A proven track record of leading testing across complex portfolios, programmes or large-scale technology environments.
    • Experience developing and leading high-performing testing teams.
    • Strong knowledge of quality assurance, test automation and modern engineering practices.
    • The ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.
    • Experience working in Agile environments with modern DevOps and CI/CD practices.
    • A continuous improvement mindset and a passion for delivering exceptional outcomes.

    Apply now
    Pets at Home

    Portfolio Test Lead

    Handforth
    Hybrid
    Why join Pets at Home?

    You'll have the opportunity to make a genuine impact in a business where technology is a key enabler of growth and innovation. You'll join a collaborative, supportive environment where your expertise will influence strategy, improve customer experiences and help millions of pets and pet owners.

    Most importantly, you'll be surrounded by people who care deeply about what they do and why they do it.

    Pets just see people. They aren’t biased and they don’t discriminate. We take our inspiration from pets, and we value and respect difference in all its forms. Our aim is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and every colleague can help us achieve this. We encourage our people to be themselves so even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you

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