Test Manager

Areas of responsibility may include but are not limited to:

• Responsible for leading and directing QA teams.
• Mentoring of Junior QA staff.
• Be accountable for QA projects, coach and mentor, and provide leadership to QA staff.
• Participate in interviews, induction, training and performance reviews.
• Provide leadership and expertise within the field of Quality Assurance and Testing.
• Focus on continuous QA improvements including usage of appropriate testing processes, techniques, automation, performance.
• Building and maintaining quality standards as well as enforcing technical and testing standards.
• Monitoring all the QA activities, test results, leaked defects, root cause analysis and identifying areas of improvement. Implement steps required to improve the processes.
• Gather and consolidating testing metrics and testing activities reporting for the projects to key stakeholders.
• Consider the proper usage of available tools to gain the maximum benefit of the QA effort. This includes testing tools for functional, performance, automation etc.
• Guide training and continuous learning of QA staff, utilizing short courses, conferences, meetups, certifications, etc.
• Facilitate support for manual and automation testing, utilization of appropriate methodologies, processes, tools and techniques across various teams.
• Work closely with peers and team leads to ensure key quality indexes are achieved.

Personal Attributes and Skills:

• Experience in managing quality and test deliverables across multiple projects and industries.
• Display strong leadership skills, with experience in developing and implementing organisational quality processes and strategies.
• Have strong technical skills, both functional and non-functional, ideally in a continuous delivery environment.
• Be a custodian of Quality Assurance, driving continuous improvement, and implementing best practices.
• Experience with risk identification and risk management.
• Experience in managing Quality departments or functions with complex activities and processes.
• Able to recognise good talent and motivate individuals within a team structure.
• Being a mature professional who is self-motivated and enthusiastic about quality.
• Excellent communicator, displaying good influencing and negotiation skills.
• Ability to handle conflict effectively.
• Ability to build, implement and direct quality assurance principles and maintain the quality of delivery.
• Analytical and eye for detail.
• Agile, DevOps and DevSecOps testing experience beneficial.