Head of Quality & Delivery Excellence
Mansell Taylor Consulting is proud to partner with Transmax to appoint a Head of Quality & Delivery Excellence, responsible for improving engineering quality, delivery flow, and release governance across the organisation.
This is a senior leadership role focused on enabling consistent, high-quality, and predictable software delivery.
The opportunity
You will lead Quality Engineering and Agile delivery capability, embedding modern testing practices, delivery frameworks, and supporting delivery excellence and cross-cutting initiatives across all our product, platform, and operational teams.
This role plays a key part in strengthening engineering performance, improving delivery predictability, and supporting safe, scalable releases, including being a critical part of our AI-enabled process across our SDLC.
What you’ll be doing
- Lead Quality Engineering and Scrum Master capability across teams
- Define and implement testing strategies and automation frameworks
- Improve delivery flow using Agile practices and performance metrics
- Establish and govern release and change management processes
- Embed modern delivery practices (CI/CD, trunk-based development)
- Partner with SRE and Architecture on resilience and NFR alignment
- Drive delivery metrics, reporting, and continuous improvement
- Lead release governance and approval processes
- Enable SDLC standards and engineering capability uplift
About you
- Proven leadership in quality engineering or software delivery environments
- Strong background in Agile, testing automation, and SDLC practices, understanding where the theory meets pragmatism to deliver measurable outcomes across the way people work in a software business
- Experience implementing modern testing frameworks (unit, integration, E2E, performance)
- Strong understanding of release governance and delivery risk
- Experience in regulated or mission-critical environments
- Strong stakeholder engagement across technical and business teams
- Leadership experience across multidisciplinary teams
- Tertiary qualification in IT, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
Why apply
- Lead delivery quality and engineering capability at scale
- Shape modern software delivery practices
- High-impact role across product and platform teams
- Work closely with senior technology leadership
Apply
Apply now or contact Jelissa Taylor on 0415 430 303. Applications close Friday 17 April.