Test Manager

Mandatory Skills: Automation Testing (Primary) & Performance Testing

• Manage and maintain the testing portfolio, including forecasting, planning, scheduling and assigning test resources against the demand portfolio
• Produce phase level Test Strategy and Test Plan
• Produce test estimation - duration and cost
• Approve test conditions and test cases for phase level testing
• Approve environment and data requirements to complete test execution
• Test defect management and reporting
• Status reporting
• Test estimation
• Test completion report
• Leadership and people management responsibilities including mentoring test team
• Exceptional Test Process knowledge and experience
• Excellent leadership and organizational skills with ability to concurrently direct, inspire and control multiple test teams within a dynamic environment.
• Excellent understanding of risk management within the context of financial industry business strategies
• Experience and detailed technical understanding of project and system development life-cycles.
• Detailed experience in developing work breakdown structures and managing work schedules.
• Excellent estimating and productivity measurement skills and techniques; integrating time and resources.
• Desire to engage and maintain working relationships with sponsors, business stakeholders and developers alike.
• Experience in quality management with commitment to innovation and improvement, championing change, minimizing costs, and maximizing resources.
• Ability to recognize test management risks and develop effective and timely solutions before they become issues.
• Excellent interpersonal and structured communication skills.
• Significant testing experience including two as a Test Leader
• Creating value in each customer interaction and focusing on the total customer experience.
• Inspires others to demonstrate values and works together to create a passionate, high performing culture.
• Continuously improving and innovating what we do to make things simple and easy for our customers and each other.
• Communicating clearly and with impact to ensure understanding, engagement and commitment to action.
• Understanding and using project knowledge, industry information and financial drivers in decisions and actions.
• Generate hypothesis and test these using experiments to identify opportunities for innovation and continuous improvement
• Plans, designs, manages, executes and reports of tests to ensure systems, configurations, packages or services perform as specified