Test Release Manager

Our client are currently seeking an experienced Test Release Manager to join their Quality Engineering Transformation team on a permanent basis.

Skills/experience:

• Strong stakeholder management to up to senior leadership level
• 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 level organizational levels
• Ability to influence stakeholders to resolve incidents and ensure key milestones are met
• Relevant experience in Security/OAT/Performance
• Good understanding of Performance and Stress Testing of OSS and BSS sub systems
• Good working knowledge of load testing
• Define, implement and measure key test KPIs to ensure high test & quality standards are achieved.
• Act as facilitator and decision maker for NFR/performance defect resolution during test execution
• Manage challenging stakeholders and being tough on scope and time commitments.
• Strong implementation scheduling and planning experience within a Transformation Programme
• Expertise in requirements analysis, test strategy/planning/test scheduling.
• Contribute to and act as a point of decision around test approach, strategy, planning, execution and escalation on behalf of programme & portfolio stakeholders.
• Leads Test Management across a major strategic Transformation programme.
• Manages Test Managers/Test Leads working across multiple projects (5-7).
• Excellent knowledge of the Software Testing Life Cycle and you are able to develop advanced test plans and communicate these effectively to stakeholders.
• 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.
• Experience with managing large offshore teams and services.
• Exposure to Telco BSS, OSS systems (end to end).
• Working knowledge of JIRA to own defect management lifecycle
• Ability to drive issues to closure and work well within a deadline-driven environment.
• Keeping in check the schedule and status of any given release, and communicate this effectively across all teams including devs, infrastructure, and architecture.

Desirable:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent, with a numerate or computing related subject focus
• Experience of a wide range of SLDC methodologies
• ISTQB (Advanced) or equivalent
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Understanding of automated testing and release processes, and how to apply automation across both test and release
• Experience of working in Telco
• Experience in the Release Management Life Cycle