Test Report Manager
Posted 2 days ago by iBSC
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
Horsham, UK
Summary: The Test Report Manager role involves overseeing the reporting processes for a large testing program within a consultancy. The position requires strong experience in reporting process ownership and governance, ensuring compliance across multiple workstreams, and managing the lifecycle of reports. The role is a 6-month contract inside IR35, with a hybrid working arrangement of 3 days on-site and 2 days remote.
Key Responsibilities:
- Reporting Process Ownership and Governance of a large testing program.
- Defining and maintaining the report management process.
- Establishing procedures to streamline reporting processes.
- Ensuring compliance with defined processes across all workstream test leads.
- Overseeing the lifecycle of reports from daily metrics to final reports.
- Managing RAG Status and ensuring accurate updates of workstream metrics.
- Proactively challenging and escalating issues with workstreams to stakeholders.
- Cross-referencing reports with metrics, defects, commentary, and burndowns.
- Communicating and coordinating reporting as the central point of contact.
- Attending defect triage calls to gather information for reports.
Key Skills:
- Strong experience in Reporting Process Ownership and Governance.
- Ability to manage complex reporting processes across multiple vendor teams.
- Proficiency in report management and lifecycle oversight.
- Excellent communication and coordination skills.
- Experience in defect management and triage processes.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Horsham
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Test Report Manager
My client, a large consultancy, is in need of a Test Report Manager for a 6 month contract inside IR35 based in Horsham, offering 2 days per week remote but requiring 3 days per week on-site.
The ideal candidate will have strong experience in Reporting Process Ownership and Governance of a big testing program with multiple phases and many vendor teams involved, Defining and maintaining the report management process, establishing procedures to streamline the reporting processes, Ensuring compliance with the defined process across all workstream test leads, Reporting Management, Overseeing the entire lifecycle of all reports from daily metrics to final report, RAG Status management, ensuring the workstream metrics are accurately updated and reflect the current state of each workstream across the three phases, Proactively challenging and escalating workstreams that are not progressing as expected to appropriate stakeholders/management, Reports are cross-referenced throughout from the Metrics, Defects, Commentary, Burndowns and the Defect Summary to ensure that the reports are up to date and accurate, Reporting Calls, Communicating and coordinating, as the central point of contact for reporting as daily check ins are scheduled with the test leads, the defect manager and delivery lead before reports are sent, Attend the Defect triage calls for the different Phases to have a view of defect statuses that will be cross referenced on the Defect summary and in the Commentary across the workstreams, From these calls the information that goes into the commentary is gathered, for example if estimated fix date is changed these may impact the RAG status. On calls there are discussions on severity, impact and the urgency of defects which is then reflected in the report as part of the Commentary and Executive summary across multiple necessary workstreams.