Senior Test Manager
Posted Today by Insight
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Test Manager role at Insight Enterprises, Inc. involves leading and mentoring a team within a complex cloud project, focusing on innovation and best practices across various IT partners. The position requires hands-on expertise in the full testing lifecycle, strong stakeholder management, and the ability to enhance QA processes. The ideal candidate should possess deep experience with automation frameworks, CI/CD tools, and Agile methodologies, along with a solid understanding of both software and infrastructure testing. This contract role is hybrid and aims to start as soon as possible.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and mentor a small team within a complex cloud project.
- Drive innovation and best practices across multiple IT partners and teams.
- Manage the full testing lifecycle from inception to production.
- Evaluate and improve QA processes and documentation proactively.
- Produce Test Plans and associated QA documentation.
- Communicate effectively with internal stakeholders and technical teams.
- Report test progress, outcomes, and defects to project managers and stakeholders.
- Represent QA in internal and external meetings.
- Work with automation frameworks and CI/CD tools.
- Conduct software and infrastructure testing, including non-functional testing.
Key Skills:
- Understanding of the testing lifecycle from inception to production.
- Team leadership and mentoring skills.
- Impeccable communication skills for stakeholder management.
- Proactive attitude in evaluating and improving QA processes.
- Ability to produce Test Plans and QA documentation.
- Good understanding of automation frameworks and tools like ADO and Playwright.
- Experience with CI/CD tools and pipeline integration.
- Strong understanding of Agile, SDLC, and QA methodologies.
- Experience in cloud-based testing and infrastructure testing.
- Experience in non-functional testing.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Senior Test Manager Contract role to start ASAP 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.
The Senior Test Manager is expected to lead and mentor a small team within a complex cloud project, driving innovation and best practices across multiple IT partners and teams. This role requires hands-on expertise in the full testing lifecycle, strong stakeholder management, and the ability to proactively evaluate and improve QA processes and documentation. The ideal candidate will have deep experience with automation frameworks, CI/CD tools, Agile methodologies, and both software and infrastructure testing, including non-functional testing.
Skills Required:
- 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