# Quality Assurance - Engineering Manager

Quality Assurance - Engineering Manager Location: Herne Bay, KentWorking Hours: 40 hours per week Purpose of Role Lead and coordinate the day-to-day activities of the QA team, ensuring verification and validation are planned, executed, traceable and reported effectively across New Product Development, Sustaining Engineering and certification programmes. The role supports an end-to-end verification process using Jira, Xray and Confluence, while improving quality, reporting and appropriate use of test automation. Key Responsibilities 1. Team Leadership Lead and coordinate daily activities of QA Technicians. Allocate priorities, monitor workload and support coaching and development. Promote quality, ownership, accountability and continuous improvement. 2. Verification and Validation Coordinate verification and validation across engineering projects. Ensure tests are completed to agreed plans and schedules. Support test plans, procedures and specifications. Track progress, risks and issues, escalating concerns early. Ensure objective test evidence is created, reviewed and retained. 3. Test Management and Reporting Manage test cases, plans, executions, results and defects in Jira Xray.

- **Id**: 4031306
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/kidde-quality-assurance-engineering-manager>
- **Role**: QA
- **Role family**: QA
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Herne Bay, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T03:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T00:04:54Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3739
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Locks, Safes & Home Security Products

## Company

- **Id**: 712970
- **Name**: Kidde
- **Domain**: kidde.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/kidde-2>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Dayforce

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 15
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.867
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 45
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **Confluence** — Optional: no
- **Jira** — Optional: no
- **Verification & Validation** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T18:43:31Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 45
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T01:27:25Z

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