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Senior Test Manager

Job Ref
269051
Job Type
Contracting
Employer Type
Company
Date Added 29 Aug 2016
Expiry Date 26 Sep 2016
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Employer:
Qinfo Consulting

Location:
Gauteng

Salary:
Market related

Benefits:


Role details:
Three year qualification or 5-7 years Test Management experience
5 – 10 years IT experience
5 – 7 years HPQC Experience
The test-during-development and delivery’ approach is a mechanism aiming to reduce the testing cycle time, improve the quality and wheel-spin and the resources can be utilised for other delivery items as well (Device Compatibility Testing, Testing of new Devices and OS Releases on existing Apps, Continual Performance Testing & Monitoring, Dev/Testing Device Management, Load Testing, Usage Reports and Functional analysis.
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The scope of the Senior Test Manager is as follows:
• Work with Development and / or LOB Development Team, PCOE and ITS to plan one or more of the following: System, Performance, Business, Operability or Deployment Verification testing
• Prepare test project estimates
• Provides PM’s with Testing WBS
• Determine all testing environment requirements and tools needed
• Review the development process to ensure that defect tracking (identification, fixing, re-testing and migration of defects) is properly addressed; manage defect coordination meetings
• Coordinate activities between onshore and offshore resources
• Allocate test resources to test projects in a multi-project, multi-test phase environment
• Collect and report test status, progress, quality and project metrics; ensure that all testing results are easily accessible and understandable
• Ensure that the team follows the testing standards, guidelines, and testing methodology as specified in the Testing Handbook, Test Strategy and Test Plan
• Conduct test gating (stage containment) reviews prior to test execution and after test execution to ensure that the entry and exit criteria are assessed and reported
• Participate in quality management reviews to ensure adherence to all quality management plans and standards
• Manage risk and issues associated with test effort.
• Liaison for interdepartmental interactions: Representative of the testing team
• Customer interaction, if applicable
• Recruiting, staff supervision, and staff training
• Test budgeting and scheduling, including test-effort estimations.
• Test planning, including development of testing goals and strategy
• Vendor interaction
• Test-tool selection and introduction.
• Cohesive integration of test and development activities
• Acquisition of hardware and software for test environment
• Test-program oversight and progress tracking
• Use of metrics to support continual test-process improvement
• Test-process definition, training and continual improvement
• Coordinating pre- and post-test meetings
• Understand project charter(s)
• Implement governance and reporting processes
• Implement standard processes, methodologies and tools
• Be the primary contact and escalation point for the whole program (From a testing Perspective.)
• Perform all project management activities - resource management, monitor and control project, manage risks and issues, manage quality.
• Develop/assist in test strategy, test planning activities
• Perform Demand management
• Responsible for managing the overall testing effort and deliverables
• Responsible for skill development, enhancement and assessment for the team
• Define and facilitate formal sign-off process and procedures for testing deliverables
• Manage and facilitate onshore-offshore communication.
• Validate that solutions due to be released meet quality, performance, architectural and functional requirements and are fit for business purpose
• Validate that all test effort are effectively planned, monitored and executed and that core activities required by the Testing Framework are completed in a structured, consistent manner



 
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