QA Programme Delivery Manager/Programme Test Manager @ Watford, UK (Hybrid Working)
Posted 1 week ago by Smartedge Solutions Ltd
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
Watford, Hertfordshire, UK
Summary: Smartedge's Client is seeking a QA Programme Delivery Manager/Programme Test Manager to oversee test delivery across various technology products in Watford, UK, with a hybrid working arrangement. The role involves managing test resources, implementing tooling for resource allocation, and ensuring quality assurance across digital, retail, and data services. The successful candidate will lead a team focused on excellence and continuous improvement while maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders and vendors. A minimum of 10 years of experience in QA leadership is required, along with expertise in cloud-based testing platforms and automation testing.
Key Responsibilities:
- Test Resource Management: Demand and Capacity Planning ensuring business demands are being met
- Tooling: Implementation of tooling to support resource allocation forecasting
- Portfolio Tracking: Working with technology product functions and the wider business stakeholders shaping the service offerings of test/QA to support the delivery of portfolio work
- Test Delivery reporting across multiple test programmes of work
- Estimation: Ability to right size the resource requirements, creating an estimation model that can be used against all portfolio work
- Time to Market (TTM): Evaluate speed and throughput, balancing quality using tooling and process improvements
- Line management and mentorship of (QA Leads & senior QA Analyst)
- Be an advocate of change driving continuous improvements
- Test/QA Vendor Management. Working with our partners to support the portfolio delivery demand and ensure key vendor SLA's are being met.
- Budget monitoring
- Minimum 10 Years of experience in QA leadership role
- Ability to forecast demand capacity in Real Time
- Ability to provide programme level Test Delivery reports via automated dashboards
- Ability to report progress against Quality KPI's and forecast quality trends
- Ability to apply a resource estimation methodology at key Project Gates with known levels of tolerance
- Ability to build and maintain a high performing team to execute delivery in a high demand environment whilst ensuring adherence to governance and quality standards
- Ability to foster and maintain effective relationships with internal and external management teams
- Experience with cloud-based testing platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP)
- Expertise in Web & Mobile Automation testing
- Minimum overall 15+ years of experience with at least 10 years of experience in QA Leadership role
- Demonstratable experience of resource management and running multi streamed test activities across large testing projects and portfolios of work
- Demonstrable experience of implementing innovative change within test/QA
- Experience of working with senior internal and external stakeholders
- Project Management Experience
- Experience of cultivating a high performing test/QA team leading by example
- Vendor Management experience
Key Skills:
- Minimum 10 Years of experience in QA leadership role
- Ability to forecast demand capacity in Real Time
- Ability to provide programme level Test Delivery reports via automated dashboards
- Ability to report progress against Quality KPI's and forecast quality trends
- Ability to apply a resource estimation methodology at key Project Gates with known levels of tolerance
- Ability to build and maintain a high performing team to execute delivery in a high demand environment whilst ensuring adherence to governance and quality standards
- Ability to foster and maintain effective relationships with internal and external management teams
- Experience with cloud-based testing platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP)
- Expertise in Web & Mobile Automation testing
- Minimum overall 15+ years of experience with at least 10 years of experience in QA Leadership role
- Demonstratable experience of resource management and running multi streamed test activities across large testing projects and portfolios of work
- Demonstrable experience of implementing innovative change within test/QA
- Experience of working with senior internal and external stakeholders
- Project Management Experience
- Experience of cultivating a high performing test/QA team leading by example
- Vendor Management experience
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Watford
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Smartedge's Client is looking for QA Programme Delivery Manager/Programme Test Manager @ Watford, UK (Hybrid Working)
Experince Required:
Role will manage all aspects of test delivery across the Technology Product Portfolio, including Digital (web & mobile), Retail, Service Delivery & Data. This role will play a key role within the QA/Test enablement team, who operate as a Centre of Excellence', providing test and Quality Assurance solutions, resourcing and tooling to support the portfolio demands.Building a team that aspires to excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning, ensuring the integrity and reliability of all lottery systems is a key part of this role.
- Test Resource Management: Demand and Capacity Planning ensuring business demands are being met
- Tooling: Implementation of tooling to support resource allocation forecasting
- Portfolio Tracking: Working with technology product functions and the wider business stakeholders shaping the service offerings of test/QA to support the delivery of portfolio work
- Test Delivery reporting across multiple test programmes of work
- Estimation: Ability to right size the resource requirements, creating an estimation model that can be used against all portfolio work
- Time to Market (TTM): Evaluate speed and throughput, balancing quality using tooling and process improvements
- Line management and mentorship of (QA Leads & senior QA Analyst)
- Be an advocate of change driving continuous improvements
- Test/QA Vendor Management. Working with our partners to support the portfolio delivery demand and ensure key vendor SLA's are being met.
- Budget monitoring
- Minimum 10 Years of experience in QA leadership role
- Ability to forecast demand capacity in Real Time
- Ability to provide programme level Test Delivery reports via automated dashboards
- Ability to report progress against Quality KPI's and forecast quality trends
- Ability to apply a resource estimation methodology at key Project Gates with known levels of tolerance
- Ability to build and maintain a high performing team to execute delivery in a high demand environment whilst ensuring adherence to governance and quality standards
- Ability to foster and maintain effective relationships with internal and external management teams
- Experience with cloud-based testing platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP)
- Expertise in Web & Mobile Automation testing
- Minimum overall 15+ years of experience with at least 10 years of experience in QA Leadership role
- Demonstratable experience of resource management and running multi streamed test activities across large testing projects and portfolios of work
- Demonstrable experience of implementing innovative change within test/QA
- Experience of working with senior internal and external stakeholders
- Project Management Experience
- Experience of cultivating a high performing test/QA team leading by example
- Vendor Management experience
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