Test Manager

Job Description

Job Title: Test Manager (Senior)

Location: Ballina, Co. Mayo Hybrid working model.

Contract: 12 Months, With the further extension

Start date: 1st April 2023, or as soon as possible after

Experience Level Required:

It is a mandatory requirement that the Resource proposed for this role has not less than 7 years of relevant experience. Any other experience levels less than this will not be accepted.

Key Deliverable:

The following non-exhaustive list of Key Deliverables is applicable to this Role: 

• Owning and managing all the testing and validation activities through the system development life cycle (SDLC), covering quality assurance of CoVIS Contractor system testing, functional integration testing and regression testing and user acceptance testing (UAT). 
• Overseeing and managing the design, maintenance and execution of robust test plans, test scenarios, test scripts, test data in line with the CoVIS Test Strategy. 
• Ensuing performance / stress / volume testing of nonfunctional requirements is conducted and findings progressed. 
• Ensuring maintenance and completeness of requirements traceability matrix throughout test phase. 
• Driving communication between the testing, business analysis, architecture, and development / production support teams to ensure each requirement has adequate test coverage
• Resource planning and developing release work plans and schedules for validation and execution of test cases in line with overall agreed CoVIS Contractor program of work. 
• Reviewing and inputting as required into overall project timelines, project and cost estimation, budget development and cost control for the applications / projects in scope from a testing perspective. 
• Inputting into project approval and sign off for all test activity and documentation. 
• Third party vendor / contractor management in relation to aspects of software testing and validation. 
• Reviewing and sign off CoVIS Contractor or other third-party test documentation. 
• Management of testing risks and issues. Reviewing and developing system enhancement requirements and system changes. 
• Day to day management of defects raised with CoVIS Contractor from initial logging right through to defect resolution in production. 
• Chairing test review meetings as appropriate and delivery test status reports to key stakeholders. 
• Management of all testing documentation on the Authority’s SharePoint site. 
• Co-ordination of release plans and communications to system users. 
• Supervising and providing independent software quality assurance in relation to the CoVIS Contractor’s deliverables and providing best practice guidance to the Authority with regard to software testing. 
• Input into benefits management stream and overall monitoring of CVR benefits delivery. 
• Managing internal testing resources, which may be allocated from time to time as required. 
• Managing third party and contract test resources assigned to projects and BAU.

Key Experience/Competencies/Skillsets:

The following Experience/Competencies/Skillsets are applicable to this Role. 

• Practical experience of overseeing and managing the design, maintenance and execution of robust test plans, test scenarios, test scripts and test data, on time and to agreed standards, and recording and analyzing test results, and reports on any unexpected or unsatisfactory outcomes. Provide support to production environment release validation and production bug troubleshooting. 
• Practical experience of resourcing planning and development of release work plans and schedules for validation and execution of test cases; providing reports on progress, anomalies, risks, and issues associated with the overall project. 
• Practical experience of driving communication between the test, business analysis, architecture, development / production support teams to ensure each requirement has adequate test coverage and practical experience of providing support to Business users on testing activities in UAT. 
• Practical experience of working with restful APIs, performing Soap Webservice Functional testing on Postman and / or SoapUI as well as practical experience of manual functional and nonfunctional testing; experience of working with test management systems (e.g., Azure Dev Ops / Bugzilla / Jira or equivalent).

Full Driving License required