Test Manager - 9 month day rate contract
Dublin/Hybrid
Key Responsibilities
· Understand the test effort by analysing functional and non-functional requirements
· Attend implementation workshops, planning and project meetings as required
· Identify and call out where additional training or other support is required to optimize the testing approach and execution.
· Develop the test plan for the tasks, dependencies and resources required to mitigate the risk to system quality
· Responsible for overall creation, review, and obtaining sign-off of the Test Script documents, in conjunction with daa business SMEs and Project Manage
· Identify, document, and arrange hardware and software requirements in preparation for test execution.
· Ensure the content and structure of Testing artifacts are documented and maintained within DevOps/Jira.
· Track and ensure testing of any new requirements/change requests that arise during the project.
· Coordinate test execution, ensuring each workstream has resources and is progressing; as necessary, proactively work with all relevant stakeholders to clear blockers to test execution or identify and agree on acceptable workarounds to enable execution to continue; escalating to Program Manager as required.
· Organize and chair test status meetings and issue test status reports (Daily, Weekly, etc.)
· Act as the primary point of contact between the program team and business owners for testing and defect management
· Track and prepare the report of testing activities such as test results, test coverage, required resources, defects identified and their status, re-test activities all in accordance with best practices
· Ensure the timely delivery of testing milestones.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
· A minimum of 8 years software testing experience on complex IT projects, and a minimum of 3+ years’ experience as a Test Manager, ideally using DevOps/Jira or similar
· Demonstrated communication and organisational skills, decision making skills and attention to detail
· Ability to work effectively at all levels of the organisation, proactively address issues and work collaboratively to reach a solution that does not compromise quality
· Clearly demonstrates a thorough understanding of test methodologies, manual and automated testing in accordance with best practice testing standards
· Experience of system implementations with complex data integrations is essential
Location: A hybrid approach will be used for testing i.e. a combination of on-site at North Dublin and remote. Min 3 days a week on site will be required.
Some activities may specifically require an onsite presence e.g. requirements workshops and or test planning workshops. These will be planned and agreed in advance.
For more info please call Michael on 01-6146058 or: [email protected]
