Correla are looking for a Test Manager to join our SaaS team.
Salary: circa £65k (advertised salary achievable for a candidate fulfilling all role criteria)
Job Type: Permanent
About us
In March 2021, Correla was created, as an independently owned business to bring in private investment to fuel innovation in the centre of the energy market and beyond.
Correla is derived from correlation, because we’re all about exploring and enhancing relationships between data, people, and processes. Our SaaS products and Managed Service solutions combine to power industry innovation, simplify an increasingly complex market, and deliver cost and operational efficiency
Our goal is to support industry transformation, to move to a net-zero future and to positively impact the end-consumer.
About the Role
- Define, own, and evolve the SaaS test strategy across all products, with a clear focus on automation, risk based testing, and shift left principles.
- Drive the design, adoption, and scaling of automated testing frameworks (unit, integration, API, performance, security, and end to end).
- Establish and enforce consistent testing standards, quality metrics, and release readiness criteria across teams and products, aligned to engineering and service management practices.
- Lead, coach, and develop their team, raising technical testing capability and fostering a strong quality engineering culture.
- Cross Partner with Engineering and Product to proactively identify quality risks, influence design decisions, and ensure testability is considered from inception.
About You
- You will have a strong background in software testing and quality engineering frameworks, with hands-on experience across functional, non-functional, and automated testing approaches.
- You will have proven experience designing and implementing test automation strategies at scale, in
- You will be comfortable operating in modern cloud-native, API-driven, and data centric architectures, with the ability to challenge engineering decisions constructively.
- You will Have the ability to balance speed and quality by applying risk-based testing and making informed trade offs aligned to business priorities.
- You will have experience using AI assisted tools to improve testing efficiency and quality, including test generation, optimisation, and defect analysis, with a focus on delivering practical value.
- You will have a strong understanding of quality metrics (defect trends, coverage, automation effectiveness, release confidence) and how to use data to drive improvement.
- You will have a passion for evolving testing practices, tools, and ways of working in line with modern engineering and DevOps principles.
What we offer
- Locate for your day
- Uncapped annual leave
- 6-12% Pension Contribution
- Private Healthcare
- 26 weeks’ full pay equal parent leave
- Wellbeing Services
- And more!
At Correla, we are committed to working towards being a more diverse and inclusive workplace where our people can truly be themselves. We recognise the benefits of having talented people from a range of backgrounds and cultures who bring different perspectives, life experiences and diversity of thinking.
Our aim is to attract and retain the very best diverse talent to help create an exciting, innovative, and successful business that enables us to deliver an exceptional experience for our customers. We would therefore like to encourage applications from people with varied skillsets and experience and from different backgrounds and sectors to help shape our future.
Correla is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We believe in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group, ancestry, place of origin, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, gender re-assignment, age, record of offences, marital/civil partnership status, family status, pregnancy, maternity and paternity, religion/belief or disability. We promise that your opportunity for employment with us depends solely on your qualifications and relevant experience