
qa manager London, England
Job description
- Develop strategies and directs teams with diverse scope
- Ensure that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets, are signed off
- Use project planning tools and participate in the identification of and planning for future resource needs.
- Responsible for overall test plan design and processes, applying, articulating and constructing business specific end to end scenarios, define standards for development of test scripts, deployment and reuse.
- Specify the test environment for whole life-cycle testing and ensure it reflects business requirements for execution
- Consult with key business stakeholders to ensure application design is optimised for testability
- Allocate and co-ordinate 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
- Provide quality assurance evaluation estimates on various projects, including the ability to execute vision, goals and direction of a team/teams.
- Diagnose problems and probes underlying issues to generate multiple potential solutions.
- Can proactively anticipate and prevent problems, facilitate buy-in and guides implementation of corrective and/or preventive actions for complex issues
- Creates quality assurance procedures and user instructions to ensure a reusable process and tools approach
- Define and implement quality process improvements and metrics focused on defect prevention.
- Advise on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects or release level
- Input into proof of concept exercises and assist sales with pre-sales collateral
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
- ISTQB Advanced advantageous
- Additional course or certification in Quality Assurance
- Project Management qualification
- Excellent client-facing skills
- People management skills - introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other, encouraging mentoring and the transfer of knowledge by designing and delivering learning interventions
- 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
- High value on openness and transparency
- Excellent communication and presentations skills
- Experience of introducing new concepts or strategies that significantly improve or revise the way business is done through to implementation.
- Worked on complex projects involving multiple parties including Service Providers
- Upgrades or migrations of D365 solutions, including Financial modules.
- Defining appropriate approach and governance standards, including methods, tools and applications for Client, Programme or Projects
- Introduced innovation and contonuous improvement to advance Client and Expleo team delivery
- 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
- 25 days annual leave (increased to 27 after 2 years of service)
Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo - Access to discounts and offers through my Expleo benefits
Enhanced maternity and paternity, adoption and shared parental leave package - Flexible, blended working model
