Contract Hands-on Test Automation Manager - Dubai

Dubai  ‐ Onsite
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Contract Hands-on Test Automation Manager - Dubai - 12-month Contract - 35,,000 AED Monthly

Our client, based in Dubai have asked us to assist in the hire of a Test Automation Manager on an initial 12-month contract.

We are seeking a candidate who has strong practical Hands-on experience in Test Automation, there isn't a particular focus on any specific Automation tools, Selenium, QTP, Cucumber or any other comparable test tools will be fine. The focus of this particular Program is ERP, hence any previously exposure to SAP or Oracle ERP would be advantageous.

-Strong knowledge and experience in setting up of continuous integration;
-Strong practical knowledge and experience of QA in Continuous Delivery/Deployment
-Strong practical knowledge and experience of methodologies; Agile (BDD, ATDD, FDD, TDD)
-Strong practical knowledge and experience in Risk based testing
-Practical knowledge and experience of defect management; airline background preferable.

Must have:
- Test Automation
- Agile testing
- Continuous Integration
- Test driven development, Business driven development
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of organizational test strategy drawing on testing knowledge and experience.
- Lead the development of new corporate testing standards, analysing and understanding potential impact of competing technologies, assessing their strategic significance, defining their strategic role and scope, roadmap, relationship to existing standards, and periodically reviewing the entire IT application context in view of those standards.
- Lead the development and documentation of end to end test strategies for use in solutions.
- Provide expert consultancy and coaching on these to project teams.
- Follow the changes in technologies and new business innovations, determine how they relate to our IT strategy, existing standards, platforms and patterns, and lead the work to amend existing assets or create new assets to reflect changes in the technology landscape.
- Enabling the testing resources to follow the change in testing methodologies
- Lead the test strategizing in complex projects (more than AED 5 million) taking bottom-line responsibility on planning, design, management, execution and reporting of tests, using appropriate testing tools and techniques, and conforming to agreed standards, to ensure that the entire business solution perform as specified and guiding the testing team in adopting the defined test strategy
- Provide expert advice to projects on testing standards, best practices and tools, guiding them on the need to raise exception requests, develop new or amended standards, and on the appropriate use of testing methodologies
- Lead test strategy reviews, ensuring that projects are following agreed corporate strategic direction and alignment to organizational test strategy

We are keen to build strong relationships with IT consultants based on providing a transparent and supportive service. Now in our 18th year we pay promptly and are a stable contracting partner in good financial health. Deerfoot IT: Est. 1997. REC member. ISO certified..Each time we send a CV to a recruiting client we donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation (charity no. ). We never send your CV without your email authorisation.

Start date
n.a
Duration
12 months
From
Deerfoot I.T. Resources Ltd
Published at
20.04.2017
Project ID:
1328690
Contract type
Freelance
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