ASA Recruitment’s client, a Public Sector organisation in Glasgow are currently looking to recruit a Test Manager, for an initial 6 month contract (with potential extensions) on a rate £500/day outside of IR35 (based on experience).
Responsibilities
- Work with a small team of Software Developer in Test specialists ensuring test plans are understood, integrated, delivered and automated where possible
- Coordinate and manage test schedules
- Build and maintain testing artefacts, looking ahead for future opportunities or blockers, and ensuring decisions by teams align with the strategy
- Identify operational improvements and work to ensure a stable service that can be enhanced
- Anticipate and mitigate against project challenges or risks
- Work with and support third parties in providing testing services
- Work with the wider SDET community to identify appropriate test tooling and frameworks for in house applications and help in assuring releases for the team.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Technology knowledge – good experience of:
- Best Practice test approaches
- Test Automation in CI/CD pipelines (specifically, GitHub Actions)
- Selenium WebDriver test automation
- Java and JavaScript
- BDD test tooling (Gherkin/Cucumber)
AWS environment experience
- Mariadb/Oracle/Mysql/AWS Aurora experience (2 or more)
- 2+ years (within the past 5 years) of MySQL scripting
- Self-management and proactive risk assessed decision making
- Able to make decisions characterised by managed levels of risk and complexity and recommend remediation as risk and complexity increase.
- Take ownership of problems and proactively resolve technical problems, ensuring that technical solutions continue to meet the organisation’s standards
- Test management facing experience
- Capable of assessing overall test coverage, identifying gaps and assessing the overall risk position
- Ability to assess a set of project deliverables, identify test cases and direct Software Developers in Test on priority of identified cases
- Able to assess test tooling and framework options, rationalise best fit for the team and work with the wider function to embed and operationalise chosen options
- Experience of taking lessons learned from identification of live defects and using those to drive improvements in future test coverage
- Ability to document and articulate testing strategy and approach, and embed it within the test discipline
- Experience of mentoring and upskilling junior colleagues
Desirable Skills & Experience
- Governance
- Understands technical governance and is able to participate in or deliver the assurance of a service
- Understands government requirements of governance, auditability and accountability
- Technology knowledge – good experience of:
- Infrastructure testing tooling(Kubernetes, Terraform)
Automating OAT (for Web applications and RESTful APIs)
- Automating Acceptance Testing (for Web applications) using Playwright
- Automating Regression Testing (for Web applications)
- Non-Functional Testing (performance, load)
- SC Clearance is an advantage as it will mean you can hit the ground running
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