Overview
Our high profile client seeking a contract Test Manager, to oversee testing throughout the course of their asset management system upgrade, to the latest Maximo platform MAS 9.
Contract: Initially 12 month daily rate contract
Location: Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Key Responsibilities
* Understand the test effort by analysing functional and non-functional requirements.
* Attend implementation workshops, planning, and project meetings as required.
* Develop the test plan for the tasks, dependencies, and resources required to mitigate the risk to system quality.
* Identify and call out where additional training or other support is required to optimize the testing approach and execution.
* Responsible for overall creation, review, and obtaining sign-off of the Test Script documents, in conjunction with client business SMEs and Project Manager.
* Identify, document, and arrange hardware and software requirements in preparation for test execution.
* Ensure the content and structure of Testing artifacts are documented and maintained within DevOps.
* Track and ensure testing of any new requirements/change requests that arise during the project.
* Coordinate test execution, ensuring each workstream has resources and is progressing; proactively work with stakeholders to clear blockers or agree on acceptable workarounds to enable execution, escalating to the Program Manager as required.
* Organize and chair test status meetings and issue test status reports (daily, weekly, etc.).
* Act as the primary point of contact between the program team and business owners for testing and defect management.
* Track and prepare reports of testing activities such as test results, coverage, required resources, defects identified and their status, and re-test activities, in accordance with best practices.
* Ensure the timely delivery of testing milestones.
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
* A minimum of 8 years of software testing experience on complex IT projects, and a minimum of 3+ years’ experience as a Test Manager, ideally using Jira or similar.
* Demonstrated communication and organizational skills, decision-making skills, and attention to detail.
* Ability to work effectively at all levels of the organization, proactively address issues, and work collaboratively to reach a solution that does not compromise quality.
* Clearly demonstrates a thorough understanding of test methodologies, manual and automated testing in accordance with best practice testing standards.
* Experience of testing complex, mission-critical solutions is essential.
* Experience of system implementations with complex integrations is a distinct advantage.
* Experience of testing data migration from a legacy system to a new system is a distinct advantage.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Contract
Job function
Management
Industries
IT Services and IT Consulting
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