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The Background

The Role

Main Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining agile standards and practices for software testing
• Producing test strategies and test plans appropriate to the size and complexity of a project
• Providing test estimates to the development manager and project manager
• Ensuring software testers allocated to projects have appropriate skills and capabilities
• Managing the testing effort on a day-to-day basis for any given release
• Ensuring compliance with agile best practice for all aspects of software testing
• Proactively managing issues and risks, implementing corrective action as necessary and escalating when they cannot be directly resolved
• Recruitment, appraisals, coaching, and mentoring of software testers
• Leading from the front and acting as a positive influence on the team
• Planning, preparation, managing, and supporting the UAT process
• Managing the deployment and maintenance of suitable testing environments
• Implementing and evolving test quality measurements and metrics

Education, Skills and Experience

• Minimum of 6 years testing experience (including UAT)
• Minimum of 3 years as a test manager
• Test Manager Certification (ISEB Practitioner or ISTQB Advanced)
• Test Analyst Certification (ISEB Practitioner or ISTQB Advanced)
• Agile Tester Certification (ideally ISTQB)
• PRINCE2 foundation or above (not essential)
• Extensive experience of managing multiple test projects simultaneously
• Extensive experience in writing test scripts, test plans and test strategies
• Extensive experience of linking business drivers to test strategies and test plans
• Extensive experience of managing test teams in an agile, scrum, or DSDM environment
• Extensive experience of working with bug tracking and test management tools
• Extensive knowledge and experience of automated testing tools and techniques
• A good understanding of the application development lifecycle
• Excellent communication skills in English–written and verbal
• The ability to plan and prioritise own and other people’s work
• The ability to use the Microsoft office suite of products to create and edit documents, spread sheets, emails, project plans and presentations
• Calmness under pressure
• Knowledge of SQL

Core Personal and Interpersonal Skills

• Be a self-starter who defines and leads not follows or stops at blockers
• Possess a good sense of commercial and financial acumen
• Ability to effectively communicate technical information and risks to non-technical users
• Service related focus with the ability to empathise with the customer to understand their concerns and issues
• Ability to present ideas and information to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to produce and critique technical documentation in a clear, logical and concise way - relevant to specific audience
• Have an analytical approach to problem solving
• Committed, reliable and flexible

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