IT: Test Manager - Functional Test Manager - Telco - Digital - ISTQB/ISEB - Permanent (permanent)

London, UK

Salary: £50,000 - £60,000

posted on 30.04.15

Test Manager - Functional Test Manager - Telco - Digital - ISTQB/ISEB

Responsibilities:

• Provides technical leadership and Subject Matter Expertise in functional testing
• Provides testing oversight, test execution status and defect tracking
• Prepare on overarching test strategy for the program
• Defining the scope of testing within the context of each release/delivery.
• Ensure the timely delivery of different testing milestones
• Prepares time and cost estimates, identifies and mitigates project risks, plans the full project life cycle and recommends approaches to improve time to market
• Review the documents - strategy/plan/deliverables in general being provided by all suppliers working on various test phases
• Manage various test phases - system testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing
• Track and prepare the report of testing activities like test testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status.
• Escalate the issues about project requirements (Software, Hardware, Resources) to Project Manager/Sr. Programme Test Manager.
• Attend the regular client call and discuss the weekly status with the client.
• Organize the status meetings and send the Status Report (Daily, Weekly etc.) to the Client
• Prepares/updates the metrics dashboard at the end of a phase or at the completion of project.
• Keep track of the new requirements/change in requirements of the Project.
• Participates in continuous improvement by contributing best practices, enforcing standards and improving processes
• Maintains relationships and collaborates with other domains including architecture, business analysis, infrastructure, quality control, and security

Skills and Experience:

• 10-12 years of functional testing experience with strong hands-on skills
• Minimum of 6 years of experience in test management
• Extensive experience in the following areas -
• Test management
• Defect Tracking & reporting
• Monitoring and reporting
• Test estimation & forecasting experience
• Should be ISTQB/ISEB certified
• Experience across various test phases - system testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing
• Experience in a wide variety of testing efforts, techniques and tools
• Experience in Telco domain and Digital projects will be desirable
• Should be able to articulate the status in both reporting format and to senior stakeholders to cover off the actual status and key risks and issues
• People skills, especially diplomacy and advocacy skills
• Planning and management skills
• Knowledge of the domain, system or application-under-test (desirable)
• Experience programming or managing programming teams (desirable)
• Solid knowledge on defect management tools Quality centre, JIRA.
• Flexibility, energy and ability to work well with others in a virtual, geographically dispersed team environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present to IT and business leader
• Demonstrated ability to stay current with testing(non-functional) best practices, existing and emerging technology platforms, and industry trends

Test Manager - Functional Test Manager - Telco - Digital - ISTQB/ISEB

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