Senior Manager – Testing (QA) at iOCO

What you’ll do:

• Creation of test plan and test schedule that are aligned with the overall project plan
• Prioritise, allocate and execute tasks based on project plan
• Organising and conducting weekly team meetings with the focus on targets achieved and prioritising outstanding tasks
• Work closely with the project team to ensure that the project deliverables are
• All testing efforts are appropriately prioritised based on the risk assessment
• Provide analytical support in the resolution of defects
• Reviewing and contribute towards system design documents such as functional requirements, technical requirements, non-functional requirements
• Take ownership of queries and offer possible solutions to the various stakeholders to ensure the resolution of the issue.
• Provide feedback to Senior management and Project managers where relevant and
• Performance Management: Manage the performance and efficiency of the team using KPI’s, andstandards.
• Identifies testing risks both within and across projects and provides testing solutions /processes to mitigate the risks
• Test status reporting at both the detailed and management information level
• Manage the test scope and delivery for medium to large sized projects and/or portfolios or work streams of large programmes
• Manage a medium-sized test team which may be multi-site
• Define and implement the overall test approach
• Apply different estimating methods to estimate timescales, effort and costs for the testing phases
• Responsible for producing the overall test delivery plan and defining the business test deliverable milestones, test tasks and activities whilst determining whether automation tools can be utilised
• Manage a large testing capability, resources and testing process from project initiation to post implementation review and extended wellness
• Identify slippage and develop strategies to recover and will own and resolve issues around the technical solution delivered into the business test environment
• Ensure that all test phases have appropriate entry / exit criteria and for monitoring achievement of these criteria and for obtaining sign-off against these prior to Go Live
• Implement a well-structured approach to test defect management and incident reporting
• Monitor and report the status and progress of each test phase to different stakeholders and to agreed CMT standards

Your expertise:

• 10+ years of IT experience, including at least 3 years in the capacity of Test Manager/Lead for a test team of at least 5 FTEs
• At least 8 years of experience in manual and automated software testing
• Experience of having designed and implemented test frameworks on large s cale programmes and enhancing existing test processes
• Strong experience on driving test strategy, detailed test plan, test cases design, test data management and full-cycle execution management Solid track record of designing and analysing formal test metrics
• Engagement with stakeholders at all levels

Qualifications required:

• Degree in Information Systems/Technology/Computer Science, or equivalent
• Test Management certification or Automation Testing certifications