QE Test Programme Manager

The team you'll be working with:

Hands on test manager/lead, who can define and implement the test strategy for a data driven cloud-based solution, experience of the complete test life cycle from initial development to final user acceptance. Working closely with the development and delivery team and the wider program test team.

SC and NPPV3 clearance required.

• Extensive experience of Test Management

• Strong stakeholder management to up to senior leadership level

• Delivery focused, pragmatic and able to provide recommendations based on business impacts

• Champion continual service improvement across quality assurance, automation and tooling.

• Expert in testing methodologies, test management and associated practices.

• Expert in ALL test phases – functional, non-functional, OAT, UAT and Security.

• Strong leadership and coaching experience.

• Strong problem-solving skills, highly motivated, and passionate about quality

• Taking charge of the release and change process so as to avoid scope creep

• Avoids unnecessary change requests through strong stakeholder management and holding people to what was committed in releases.

• Collaborate with Workstream leads to support their delivery of milestones on time, to cost and quality

• Successful at developing and managing relationships at all organizational levels

• Ability to influence stakeholders to resolve incidents and ensure key milestones are met

• Good generalist test management experience across the full development / delivery lifecycle including:

• Strong experience in test strategy and planning

• Good understanding of Non Functional Testing (Performance, Load and Stress Testing, Security)

• Good understanding of Functional Testing

• Good understanding of Integration Testing

• Good understanding of Risk Based Testing

• Experienced at reporting against key testing KPIs as well as programme KPIs

• Experienced in creating and implementing test strategies and plans & defining QAT strategies at programme or project level.

• Ownership of the test approach, ensuring it is being adhered to by the team and at each stage of the programme

• Sharing guidance and best practice across the teams, driving improvements as necessary

• Working with the product team to define the acceptance criteria and testing DOD for each story

• Pairing with the developers to define and review the required tests that will address all features and functions of a product delivery at the unit and component layer

• Performing exploratory testing at all levels

• Working with the Product team to define tests throughout the product delivery into live

• Management of all testing risks, feeding into the programme RAID

• Validation that agreed test coverage is achieved and reported, using appropriate toolsets and dashboards

• Automating tests where required.

• Working collaboratively with developers to design and test stubs

• Ensure the team define tests to validate NFR’s at the appropriate level

• Ensuring traceability is maintained throughout the product delivery

• Working closely across Product Teams to ensure any stories that require integration of components or functionality are fully considered at the outset of a sprint and ensuring acceptance criteria is defined and met.

• Acting as a bridge between the product team and business to support user acceptance.

• ISTQB - Advanced Test Manager

• BCS Agile Foundation

• TDD using Junit

• Sonar Qube

• Jenkins

• Gatling

• Contract driven consumer testing using PACT

• Serenity

• Wiremock

• Postman

• Hamcrest

Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills, experience working in Agile delivery teams using TDD with Java and be able to work autonomously.

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