Test Manager
Posted 3 days ago by Experis UK
£400 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Test Manager role involves overseeing end-to-end test activities for a complex migration project within Security Software Services, which maintains Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for clients. The position is crucial for ensuring contractual obligations are met, thereby safeguarding the company's financial and reputational standing. The role requires expertise in test management and defect management, along with a strong focus on quality assurance. The Test Manager will also provide coaching and support within their operational team while engaging with project managers and technical teams to develop testing documentation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage end-to-end test activities for a complex migration project.
- Forecast, plan, coordinate, and define scope for testing activities.
- Ensure completion of test activities to agreed quality standards in line with the test strategy.
- Provide expert test-specific responses and develop testing documentation.
- Analyze contract documents to define customer requirements and ensure adherence.
- Deliver quality test diagnostics to report on accuracy, quality, and errors.
- Act as a recognized SME and visible leader within the operational team.
- Provide coaching and support within the area and share knowledge with the wider team.
Key Skills:
- Test Management & Defect Management.
- Unit, System Integration, Regression, UAT & Deployment Testing.
- Experience testing applications in a cloud environment.
- Test planning and documentation production for regulated environments.
- Basic knowledge of digital certificates and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).
- Knowledge of applications running in an Azure environment.
- ISTQB Qualified.
Salary (Rate): £400 daily
City: Bristol
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
10 months Bristol - hybrid £400 pay per day inside ir35 - Umbrella only
Role Overview
Security Software Services designs, builds, runs and maintains Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for its customers. As a Test Manager, your work is vitally important to our customers services and the underpinning solutions. Without this key role, we would be unable to meet its contractual obligations and would be at risk of financial and reputational impact. The role holder will manage the end-to-end test activities of a complex migration project and undertake forecasting, planning, coordination, scope definition and test assurance using various test tools and test techniques based on their knowledge, experience, and training.
Accountabilities
- Accountable for the completion of Test activities on high profile, high value and highly complex, project deliveries (including secure), to agreed quality standards and in-line with the test strategy.
- The role holder will provide expert test-specific response detail, working with the project managers / technical and Service team(s) to develop testing documentation.
- Analyse and engage with contract documents to define customer requirements to ensure contract adherence.
- Deliver quality test diagnostics to report on accuracy, quality, and number of errors and whether customer requirements are being met.
- Recognised SME and visible leader within own operational team.
- Provides coaching/support within their area and shares knowledge with wider team.
Mandatory Skills
- Test Management & Defect Management.
- Unit, System Integration, Regression, UAT & Deployment Testing.
- Experience testing applications running in a cloud environment.
- Experience of Test planning and Test documentation production for highly regulated environments.
Deseired
- PKI experience
- Basic knowledge of digital certificates and Public Key Infrastructure.
- Knowledge of applications running in an Azure environment.
- ISTQB Qualified.
All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!