Description
Performance Test Manager
Must be SC or SC eligible
Southend (full-time)
6 months
£530 p/d
Inside IR35
What you'll do
- Implementation and co-ordination of the End-to-End Assurance and Test Strategy for the Performance and Volume Testing (PVT) stage of the systems development life cycle.
- Provision of technical direction and governance (for PVT).
- Managing test deliverables, project budgets, planning, forecasting and progress reporting.
- Analysing new work and changes to existing scope and schedules to estimate the effort needed and to determine people and test environment requirements.
- Producing a test plan for PVT for each CDS release.
- Creating detailed test schedules, including identifying the dependencies on other areas.
- Ensuring all subordinate test documentation (eg test scripts) is produced by the appropriate individual and reviewed.
- Work with the Development teams to review and assure that their approach for non-functional testing is appropriate and meeting the specified non-functional requirements.
- Define and manage appropriate Quality Gates of Development deliveries into PVT.
- Planning and managing test effort for the PVT activities including co-ordination with external teams and attending checkpoint meetings.
- Feed appropriate information into Non-Functional Test completion reports for each CDS release.
- Lead retrospectives following every team sprint; suggest and implement resulting process improvements.
- Take part in retrospectives following key programme milestones; suggest and implement resulting process improvements.
- Report progress, blockers and escalations to the Programme Non-Functional Test Manager.
- Deputise for the Programme Non-Functional Test Manager
Required Skills:
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
- Strong Stakeholder Management
- Minimum 5 years Test Manager Experience (with at least 3 years focused on Non-Functional Testing)
- Good understanding of agile delivery life cycles
- Excellent Management of Schedules and Milestones
- Collaborative working across multiple 3rd Parties and Suppliers essential
- Strong Influencing skills
- Strong Team Building skills
- Risk Management
- Understanding of Risk Based Testing (RBT) and Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA)
- Excellent reporting skills
- Implement and manage "Go to Green" remedial plans
- ISTQB Advanced Test Management certified
If you feel like you skill set matches the above, then please do submit your CV and we will be in touch.