Test Manager - 12 month day rate contract
Asset Management Implementation
A critical role in ensuring the success of this implementation will be the Test Manager. Working within the Program team and reporting to the Program Manager, the Test Manager will ensure timely execution of all project test activity. The role will sit will work with all stakeholders, both internal and external. The requirements will involve but are not limited to:
Key Responsibilities:
- Understand the test effort by analysing functional and non-functional requirements.
- Attend implementation workshops, planning, and project meetings as required.
- Develop the test plan for the tasks, dependencies, and resources required to mitigate the risk to system quality.
- Identify and call out where additional training or other support is required to optimize the testing approach and execution.
- Responsible for overall creation, review, and obtaining sign-off of the Test Script documents, in conjunction with daa business SMEs and Project Manager.
- 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.
- 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 of software testing experience on complex IT projects, and a minimum of 3+ years’ experience as a Test Manager, ideally using Jira or similar.
- Demonstrated communication and organizational skills, decision-making skills, and attention to detail.
- Ability to work effectively at all levels of the organization, 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 testing complex, mission-critical solutions is essential.
- Experience of system implementations with complex integrations is a distinct advantage
- Experience of testing data migration from a legacy system to a new system is a distinct advantage.
For more information and a confidential discussion please call Michael on 01-6146058 or e:[email protected]
