Senior Test Manager
Posted 5 days ago by Insight
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Test Manager role at Insight Enterprises, Inc. is a senior-level position focused on managing a complex Cloud Project that involves multiple IT partners and teams. The role requires hands-on leadership, mentoring of test analysts, and the promotion of innovative testing practices. The successful candidate will serve as the primary contact for technology discussions with client leadership and will oversee the quality assurance (QA) processes throughout the project lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities:
- Understanding of testing lifecycle from inception to production
- Team leadership
- Mentor test analysts and promote automation and other testing methods
- Impeccable communication skills for internal stakeholder management
- Pro-active attitude in evaluating current QA landscape and proposing improvements
- Ability to produce Test Plans and associated QA documentation
- Good understanding of technical aspects of automation frameworks, and the use of ADO, Playwright
- Experienced in CI/CD tools and pipeline integration
- Strong understanding of Agile, SDLC, and QA methodologies
- Deep understanding of working with multiple teams, representing QA in meetings
- Reporting test progress, outcomes, and defects to project managers and stakeholders
- Experience of Cloud based testing desirable
- Experience of infrastructure - not just software desirable
- Experience of Non-Functional Testing desirable
Key Skills:
- Team leadership
- Mentoring and promoting automation
- Impeccable communication skills
- Pro-active evaluation of QA processes
- Test Plan production
- Technical understanding of automation frameworks
- Experience with ADO and Playwright
- CI/CD tools and pipeline integration
- Agile, SDLC, and QA methodologies
- Collaboration with multiple teams
- Cloud based testing experience
- Infrastructure knowledge
- Non-Functional Testing experience
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Senior Test Manager Contract Hybrid
Insight Enterprises, Inc. is a Fortune 500 solutions integrator helping organizations accelerate their digital journey to modernize their business and maximize the value of technology. Insight’s technical expertise spans cloud and edge-based transformation solutions, with global scale and optimization built on 33+ years of deep partnerships with the world’s leading and emerging technology providers. In 2024, Insight had revenues of US$ 8.7 billion, and over 14,000 employees. It has a US$1.7 billion services business, bolstered by recent acquisitions in cloud, CRM, software engineering, and business consulting. In EMEA, Insight operates in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Moldova, Netherlands, Sweden, Romani, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland, UK, Ukraine, and United Arab Emirates.
PURPOSE OF ROLE
A senior level position required for a complex Cloud Project, involving multiple IT partners, and associated teams. This involves a multi-tiered software delivery being built across a new Cloud provider, and its associated infrastructure. Hands on role, joining an incumbent small team with the chance to push innovation and best practices across the book of work. Serving as the primary point of contact for all technology-related discussions with the client’s leadership and secures the QA role.
KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Understanding of testing lifecycle from inception to production
- Team leadership
- Mentor test analysts and promote automation and other testing methods
- Impeccable communication skills as internal stakeholder management between technical teams will form part of this role
- Pro-active attitude in evaluating current QA landscape and proposing improvements, good process etc.
- Ability to produce Test Plans and associated QA documentation
- Good understanding of technical aspects of automation frameworks, and the use of ADO, Playwright.
- Experienced in CI/CD tools and pipeline integration
- Strong understanding of Agile, SDLC, and QA methodologies
- Deep understanding of working with multiple teams, with ability to represent QA in internal/external meetings
- Reporting test progress, outcomes and defects to project managers, stakeholders and line management
- Experience of Cloud based testing desirable
- Experience of infrastructure - not just software desirable
- Experience of Non-Functional Testing desirable