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JOBG8

Salary

Up to £54,000 per year + 48000.00-54000.00

Location

Wiltshire

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

SENIOR TEST / QUALITY MANAGER - CHIPPENHAM - PERMANENT

My client is a leading logistics organisation based in Chippenham and they are currently in need of a highly skilled Test / Quality Manager to be responsible for setting and monitoring testing and quality standards across the organisation.
You will own and maintain all processes and procedures related to testing and ensure they are in accordance with industry best practise, and are made available, understood and utilised across the organisation. You will oversee the testing of all changes ensuring that test planning and execution is undertaken in accordance with the appropriate governance and procedures. You will also be the ultimate escalation point for all issues related to testing.

Key Responsibilities:
*Own and Maintain a company-wide test policy and approach, based on industry best practice, to ensure measurable quality within cost and time constraints, a company-wide defect management approach, including use of Quality Centre, to ensure streamlined, consistent and measurable reporting of defects. A standard test document template library adhering to industry standard best practice and terminology and a viable strategy for test automation and measure the on-going impact
*Manage current and future test resource requirements, including skill-sets, and mobilise test teams as demand requires
*Manage the test relationship with Clients and 3rd party suppliers and develop a testing community for the benefit of all
*Ensure test environments are fit for purpose ie meet project requirements, have high quality test data
*A detailed and repeatable process for test planning and estimation, based on empirical testing measures
*Responsible for the necessary provision of training for the organisation
*Provide a regular review of existing test methods, standards and procedures; propose improvements that are commercially viable, and implement those improvements as
*Provide regular quality reports to the management committee
*Ensure that test processes are consistently carried out across the company
*Line management of test team

Experience:

Essential:
*Evidence of having proposed, agreed and implemented process and people change in a medium or large organisation
*Can operate both strategically and tactically where needed
*Strong facilitation and analytical skills, with an eye for detail
*Strong communication and stakeholder management skills: ability to communicate concisely with all levels of an organisation
*Strong on test and development methodologies and industry best practice.
*Good experience of non-functional testing - especially security, resilience, performance and volume test practises
*Strong understanding of change management
*Able to build and maintain good working relationships with all staff
*Diplomacy is key, with a firm but pragmatic approach to delivery
*Have the ability to stand their ground while also being flexible enough to keep the business need as a priority

Desirable:
*Experienced in delivering projects in Logistics/Transport/Warehousing sector
*Evidence of having analysed and delivered improvements to test standards
*ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester at foundation or intermediate level
*Very good understand and use of the testing maturity model (TMM)
*Thorough understanding of development and testing methodologies including agile, waterfall, v-model, etc.
*Experience of project management methodologies, for example Prince2, Six sigma.

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