Testing Manager
Posted 1 day ago by TechNet IT Recruitment (Permanent)
Negotiable
Outside
Hybrid
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, UK
Summary: The Testing Manager role involves leading end-to-end testing for a critical Oracle HCM Cloud transformation programme within a global retail organization. This 6-month contract position requires strong leadership and accountability for testing strategy and execution across various workstreams, ensuring quality and readiness for payroll-critical processes. The role is hybrid, based in High Wycombe and London, with a fixed go-live date of September 7th. The candidate must excel in a time-critical environment and manage multiple stakeholders effectively.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and own the end-to-end test strategy, approach, and delivery plan (SIT, UAT, regression, data validation, cutover)
- Plan and manage test cycles, including environments, dependencies, and entry/exit criteria
- Ensure environment and test data readiness across all phases
- Coordinate test scenario design for People and payroll-critical processes
- Lead defect triage, prioritisation, and resolution with vendors and internal teams
- Own test reporting, quality metrics, and governance outputs
- Provide clear readiness recommendations to support go/no-go decisions
- Oversee data migration validation and reconciliation, ensuring formal sign-off
- Lead cutover rehearsal testing and go-live assurance
- Produce regular reporting on progress, defects, coverage, and risks
Key Skills:
- Strong leadership across Oracle HCM Cloud/Oracle Fusion HCM testing programmes
- Proven experience managing SIT, UAT, regression, payroll parallel runs, and go-live testing
- Experience testing integrations (OIC and third-party providers) and downstream impacts
- Ability to operate across complex, multi-stakeholder environments (global/group structures)
- Strong defect management and vendor coordination experience
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical outcomes into business risk
- Highly organised, detail-oriented, and able to deliver at pace in deadline-driven programmes
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: High Wycombe
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Testing Manager
Contract 6 months Outside IR35
Hybrid: High Wycombe
Technet IT has partnered with a global retail organisation to deliver a critical Oracle HCM Cloud transformation programme. We are seeking an experienced Testing Manager to lead end-to-end testing across a high-profile People systems migration. This is a 6-month contract (Outside IR35) with a hybrid working model across London (Battersea) and High Wycombe. With a fixed go-live date of 7th September, this role requires strong delivery ownership in a time-critical environment.
The Role
You will take full accountability for testing strategy and execution across the Oracle HCM Cloud migration, covering both business unit and group-level workstreams. This includes ownership of all test phases (SIT, UAT, Parallel Payroll, Cutover), ensuring quality, governance, and readiness across payroll-critical processes, integrations, data, and business continuity.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and own the end-to-end test strategy, approach, and delivery plan (SIT, UAT, regression, data validation, cutover)
- Plan and manage test cycles, including environments, dependencies, and entry/exit criteria
- Ensure environment and test data readiness across all phases
- Coordinate test scenario design for People and payroll-critical processes
- Lead defect triage, prioritisation, and resolution with vendors and internal teams
- Own test reporting, quality metrics, and governance outputs
- Provide clear readiness recommendations to support go/no-go decisions
- Oversee data migration validation and reconciliation, ensuring formal sign-off
- Lead cutover rehearsal testing and go-live assurance
- Produce regular reporting on progress, defects, coverage, and risks
What We're Looking For
- Strong leadership across Oracle HCM Cloud/Oracle Fusion HCM testing programmes
- Proven experience managing SIT, UAT, regression, payroll parallel runs, and go-live testing
- Experience testing integrations (OIC and third-party providers) and downstream impacts
- Ability to operate across complex, multi-stakeholder environments (global/group structures)
- Strong defect management and vendor coordination experience
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical outcomes into business risk
- Highly organised, detail-oriented, and able to deliver at pace in deadline-driven programmes
Key Skills & Knowledge
- Test planning, script design, and data preparation
- Payroll testing (including multi-cycle parallel runs)
- Data migration validation, reconciliation, and sign-off processes
- Understanding of People systems and payroll-critical workflows
- Familiarity with tools such as JIRA and test reporting dashboards
- Awareness of data security and controls when handling sensitive employee data