Delivery Test Strategist Manager

Overview

Our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions. Our two distinct operating segments, Asset Management and Life, work together to provide access to balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions.

We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and also offer workplace accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role.

The Role: You will be responsible for defining and implementing, in collaboration, the test strategy for Asset Manager Technology and Change, covering portfolios, platforms and third parties. The role requires a strong understanding of the architecture, operational workflows and key third parties and maintains strong relationships with relevant business units where change will have an impact, either direct or indirectly.

Manager or Expert

• To work closely with business stakeholders, portfolio and platform leads and their delegates to support the formulation of the Test strategy, defining scope and desired outcomes.
• To provide framework for business testing UAT, including understanding roles and responsibilities, templates and ownership of tests, in line with business readiness key control
• To interface with senior architects and delivery leads to understand and document the cross-platform design, touch points and environment constraints for end to end testing
• To define and document cross platform/portfolio/third party, end to end standards, approach and ownership.
• Ensure strong working relationship with the business transformation team to provide them high level test impact overviews.
• Carry out risk assessment of the platform from an inflight testing perspective, i.e. Define high level red flag areas where due diligence and tracking required.
• Provide oversight and assurance for the test deliverables, such as test plans, test cases, test data, test results, and test reports and escalating where required
• Ensure continuous delivery and adoption of prioritised scope of the wider test strategy, always looking to move the capability forward
• Identify opportunities for test automation and drive the implementation of automated testing frameworks and tools.

Skills And Competencies

• Good knowledge of financial markets and asset management functions, systems, data and processes
• Excellent communication skills and ability to coach others in best testing practices
• Able to report to senior leadership on progress, concerns and vision
• Self-motivated, able to set a vision and implement it
• Strong organisation skills and able to bring together a wide range of stakeholders and facilitate test planning sessions

Experience & Qualifications

• Strong knowledge and experience in test strategy, planning, design, execution and reporting
• Experience of testing the full end to end lifecycle within asset management, including multiple third parties, multiple business units and multi-regional
• Experience in testing complex and distributed systems and platforms, such as cloud, web, mobile, and API.
• Experienced with ALM tools such as JIRA and Service Now

Recruiter:
Sarah Hawkins

Location:

London

At M&G, we’re committed to helping you thrive and supporting your wellbeing, both at work and beyond. Our benefits are designed to help you balance your professional and personal life, while planning confidently for your future. Our UK benefits include:

• As a savings and Investments firm we are proud to offer a valuable pension scheme of 18%, with 13% made up of Employer Contributions and 5% Employee Contributions. We also offer Share Save and our Share Incentive Plan, together with access to financial wellbeing and support services - to help give you real confidence to put your money to work.
• Enjoy 38 days annual leave including bank holidays, with the opportunity to purchase up to 5 extra days and additional flexibility through our Time Off When You Need It policy – to balance your work and personal commitments.
• Our market leading Inspiring Families policy includes comprehensive support and paid parental leave covering maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and paternity leave - as supporting families is a core aspect of our inclusive culture.
• Health & Protection cover including Private Healthcare, Critical Illness cover and Life Assurance for you, with family options - for peace of mind.

To explore more about life at M&G and our full benefits offering, visit Life at M&G.

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