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Title: UAT Manager

Division: Manufacturing Engineering

Contract Position based at: EMC Wolverhampton

Length of Contract: 12 months

Rate of Pay: £550.95 Umbrella per day (£110,000 per year)

Position Description:

UAT Manager

Reporting to the Business Systems Delivery Manager, you will be working as on the Engine Manufacturing Plant transformation programme.

• You will be responsible for ensuring that systems, services, and end to end processes are tested, integrated and operationally ready.
• You will work closely with business leads within the transformation programme as well as internal and external developers and lead them to deliver the test strategy, which will fully test that the design is accurately implemented.
• The role will also be responsible for the processes/controls and reporting to ensure that testing meets agreed quality standards for operational acceptance and all relevant stakeholders have visibility of testing progress, User Acceptance Testing, Production Acceptance Testing and Quality Assurance within business departments. The systems to be tested are SAP, GEMES and a facility monitoring system.

Key Performance Indicators

• You will be communicating and engaging across the Programme to ensure stakeholders and all constituent projects understand and are committed to delivery of testing and required operational activities in line with the delivery and programme plans.
• Working with development teams, third parties, operations teams, and business areas to plan, coordinate and manage/facilitate testing (included interdependencies) you will ensure the agreed test strategy is correctly implemented.
• Ensuring test scenarios, including prioritising test paths with expected outcomes and acceptance criteria are in place
• Risk identification and management
• Test implementation whilst maintaining oversight of testing quality Assurance against Service Level Agreements and functional/non-functional requirements
• Production of evidence to support monitoring of operational readiness through delivery of entry / exit criteria via formal gateways
• Work closely with various business and technical teams, including Product Owners, Subject Matter Experts, Delivery Managers and Agile Development team members

Essential Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• Vast experience in a Test Management role.
• Experience of using Atlassian applications and HP ALM.
• Experience in Manufacturing / Warehouse systems.
• Experience of working with defect management systems, such as HP ALM / JIRA.
• Understanding and knowledge of business requirements and solution design methodologies.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
• Proven ability to remain positive and focussed under pressure.
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to identify key information from various data sources.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with a proven track record of establishing, building and maintaining relationships.
• Working in a fast-paced environment and ability to adapt to a changing working environment.
• Responding quickly and decisively to changing circumstances and to tight timescales.
• Using test management tools e.g. HP ALM, JIRA. MS Office suite (e.g. PowerPoint, Word, Excel, SharePoint, etc.)

Preferred:

• Knowledge of SAP ECC and Manufacturing Execution Systems.
• Knowledge of Manufacturing processes.
• Advanced Test Manager Certification.
• Statistical Analysis and Data Flow Testing.
• Agile Scrum delivery methodology.

Additional Information:

** THIS POSITION IS CONFIRMED INSIDE IR35 **

To apply for this position please send your CV to [email protected]

Unfortunately, we cannot progress candidates who require sponsorship to work in the UK.

Your CV will be forwarded to Jonathan Lee Recruitment, a leading engineering and manufacturing recruitment consultancy established in 1978. The services advertised by Jonathan Lee Contracts are those of an Employment Business.