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Hands on test manger/lead, who can define and implement the test strategy for a data driven cloud-based solution, experience of the complete test life cycle from initial development to final user acceptance. Working closely with the development and delivery team and the wider program test team.
SC and NPPV3 clearance required.
What you'll be doing:
- Extensive experience of Test Management
- Strong stakeholder management to up to senior leadership level
- Delivery focused, pragmatic and able to provide recommendations based on business impacts
- Champion continual service improvement across quality assurance, automation and tooling.
- Expert in testing methodologies, test management and associated practices.
- Expert in ALL test phases – functional, non-functional, OAT, UAT and Security.
- Strong leadership and coaching experience.
- Strong problem-solving skills, highly motivated, and passionate about quality
- Taking charge of the release and change process so as to avoid scope creep
- Avoids unnecessary change requests through strong stakeholder management and holding people to what was committed in releases.
- Collaborate with Workstream leads to support their delivery of milestones on time, to cost and quality
- Successful at developing and managing relationships at all organizational levels
- Ability to influence stakeholders to resolve incidents and ensure key milestones are met
- Good generalist test management experience across the full development / delivery lifecycle including:
- Strong experience in test strategy and planning
- Good understanding of Non Functional Testing (Performance, Load and Stress Testing, Security)
- Good understanding of Functional Testing
- Good understanding of Integration Testing
- Good understanding of Risk Based Testing
- Experienced at reporting against key testing KPIs as well as programme KPIs
- Experienced in creating and implementing test strategies and plans & defining QAT strategies at programme or project level.
- Ownership of the test approach, ensuring it is being adhered to by the team and at each stage of the programme
- Sharing guidance and best practice across the teams, driving improvements as necessary
- Working with the product team to define the acceptance criteria and testing DOD for each story
- Pairing with the developers to define and review the required tests that will address all features and functions of a product delivery at the unit and component layer
- Performing exploratory testing at all levels
- Working with the Product team to define tests throughout the product delivery into live
- Management of all testing risks, feeding into the programme RAID
- Validation that agreed test coverage is achieved and reported, using appropriate toolsets and dashboards
- Automating tests where required.
- Working collaboratively with developers to design and test stubs
- Ensure the team define tests to validate NFR’s at the appropriate level
- Ensuring traceability is maintained throughout the product delivery
- Working closely across Product Teams to ensure any stories that require integration of components or functionality are fully considered at the outset of a sprint and ensuring acceptance criteria is defined and met.
- Acting as a bridge between the product team and business to support user acceptance.
What experience you'll bring:
- ISTQB - Advanced Test Manager
- BCS Agile Foundation
- TDD using Junit
- SonarQube
- Jenkins
- Gatling
- Contract driven consumer testing using PACT
- Serenity
- Wiremock
- Postman
- Hamcrest
Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills, experience working in Agile delivery teams using TDD with Java and be able to work autonomously.
Who we are:
We’re a business with a global reach that empowers local teams, and we undertake hugely exciting work that is genuinely changing the world. Our advanced portfolio of consulting, applications, business process, cloud, and infrastructure services will allow you to achieve great things by working with brilliant colleagues, and clients, on exciting projects.
Our inclusive work environment prioritises mutual respect, accountability, and continuous learning for all our people. This approach fosters collaboration, well-being, growth, and agility, leading to a more diverse, innovative, and competitive organisation. We are also proud to share that we have a range of Inclusion Networks such as: the Women’s Business Network, Cultural and Ethnicity Network, LGBTQ+ & Allies Network, Neurodiversity Network and the Parent Network.
For more information on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion please click here: Creating Inclusion Together at NTT DATA UK | NTT DATA
what we'll offer you:
We offer a range of tailored benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. Our Learning and Development team ensure that there are continuous growth and development opportunities for our people. We also offer the opportunity to have flexible work options.
You can find more information about NTT DATA UK & Ireland here: https://uk.nttdata.com/
We are an equal opportunities employer. We believe in the fair treatment of all our employees and commit to promoting equity and diversity in our employment practices. We are also a proud Disability Confident Committed Employer - we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. We actively collaborate with individuals who have disabilities and long-term health conditions which have an effect on their ability to do normal daily activities, ensuring that barriers are eliminated when it comes to employment opportunities. In line with our commitment, we guarantee an interview to applicants who declare to us, during the application process, that they have a disability and meet the minimum requirements for the role. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know. Join us in building a truly diverse and empowered team.
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“Upon joining the NTT DATA UK family, you will experience a culturally diverse organisation living our values of Clients First, Teamwork and Foresight as we partner with our customers every day.
At NTT DATA UK, we are proud to support and invest in our people. We offer a variety of rewarding career paths and opportunities to develop professionally - with access to cutting edge innovation.”
Niccolo Spataro, CEO, NTT DATA UK
