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Operations Test Manager London, England

Expleo

Full Time London, England 72686 - 98920 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

Overview:

Expleo is a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting for digital transformation. We help businesses harness unrelenting technological change to successfully deliver innovations that will help them gain a competitive advantage and improve the everyday lives of people around the globe.

We are seeking a highly organized and motivated Operations Test Manager to join our proactive and innovative team.

You will manage the delivery of large end to end programmes of work, along with the defined work packages to the client and provide effective management to teams and give guidance to others and key business users. You will direct and manage the full project-life cycle, setting standards for assignments and applications. You will provide management for the team in planning, designing, and developing frameworks and procedures relating to quality whilst meeting on-time and on-budget project goals.

Responsibilities:

To own resourcing and planning for all IT testing activities
To provide guidance/advice and recommendations on test techniques and phases
Fully responsible for all testing activities
To perform a full quality review of Pepco’s testing practices.
To provide a detailed short-term and long-term list of improvements to their documentation and processes
To manage the implementation of the recommendations, including providing best practice templates and processes
To build and implement the independent Testing Governance framework.
To manage the daily governance team, ensuring that the correct feedback and risks are raised against the various artifacts for all of the inflight projects"
Develops strategies and directs teams with diverse scope on complex programmes of work
Facilitation of workshops and requirement gathering sessions and able to describe the level of risk associated with various projects
Ensures that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets, and are signed off, pro-actively aims to achieve personal and team utilisation targets
Uses project planning tools and participates in the identification of and planning for future resource needs. Develops a fit-for-purpose reporting mechanism
Responsible for overall test plan design and processes, applying, articulating and constructing business specific end to end scenarios, defining standards for the development of test scripts, deployment and reuse
Specifies the test environment for the whole life-cycle testing and ensuring it reflects business requirements for execution. Consults with key business stakeholders to ensure application design is optimised for testability
Allocates and co-ordinates test schedules, work and resource plans; managing progress of all activities against the plan, managing own deliverables and that of others to meet delivery deadlines
Provides quality assurance evaluation estimates on various projects, including the ability to execute vision, goals and direction of a team/teams
Diagnoses problems and probes underlying issues to generate multiple potential solutions
Can pro-actively anticipate and prevent problems, facilitates buy-in and guides implementation of corrective and/or preventive actions for complex issues. Identifies potential consequences and risk levels
Creates quality assurance procedures and user instructions to ensure a reusable process and tools approach. Defines and implements quality process improvements and metrics focused on defect prevention
Advises on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects or release level
Inputs into proof of concept exercises and assists sales with pre-sales collateral. Identifies opportunities to expand client assignments

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
ISTQB

Desirable:

Project Management qualification
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
ISTQB Advanced
Programming skills
Additional course or certification in Quality Assurance

Skills:

Excellent client-facing skills - advising clients and clearly communicating the benefits of implementing specific quality assurance solutions and identifying areas to add value
People management skills
Team work and emotional intelligence
Good self-management – continuous performance is both an objective and a mind-set
Has an innovative approach – a bold thinker and doer, matching creativity with vigilance

Experience:

Extensive technical knowledge and experience with complex IT programmes
Strong theoretical knowledge in quality assurance methodologies, applying standards and specialist quality assurance expertise to deliver whilst providing effective management to teams
Extensive application/technology and domain knowledge and has recognised expertise in QA Management including participating in the identification of and planning for future resource needs
Experience in managing the change control procedure
Experience in providing technical management
Experience in diagnosing problems using formal problem-solving tools and techniques from multiple angles and probing underlying issues to generate multiple potential solutions

Benefits:

Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ours peers through good times and challenges.
We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more!
Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”.

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