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Test Manager – Banking – Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – $86,000 + Company provided Accommodation. HP Quality Centre, QTP, Load Runner, ISEB. Our client who are a significant member…
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Test Manager – Banking – Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – $86,000 + Company provided Accommodation.
HP Quality Centre, QTP, Load Runner, ISEB.
Our client who are a significant member of the Middle Eastern banking community have asked us to assist in the hire of a Test Manager.
Job Description
You will manage / lead a team of testing professionals in providing a broad range of test services and solutions, ensuring established standards are met and planned objectives are achieved.
Responsibilities include:
• Oversees test activities for projects with increasing degree of complexity within and/or across lines of business (Tier 1 or 2).
• Manages medium to large size teams of testing professionals (typically 5-10 people).
• Lead the testing team throughout the entire testing lifecycle, ensuring that test process, methodologies
and tools are applied appropriately and stakeholders are kept informed of progress and issues.
• Prioritize testing tasks based on goals and risks of projects and ensure testing milestones, activities
and tasks are completed as scheduled.
• Develop and manage a team of testing professionals through training, knowledge sharing, coaching
and conducting performance assessments of team members and clearly define objectives and accountabilities.
• Create testing strategies and plans using risk analysis methodologies and tools and that align with the
development approach/methodology selected for the project.
• Manage and support the team in creating reusable test assets for both manual and automated test scripts.
• Manage the defect process ensuring defects are documented, tracked and reported to facilitate timely fixes, including escalation of issues where appropriate.
• Report the status of test planning, defects and execution activities, including regular status updated to the project team using quality metrics.
• Ensure testing is conducted in accordance with established information security and information privacy policies and guidelines.
• Act as primary testing liaison with the business and coordinate business testing.
• Communicate and negotiate testing timelines, budget, staffing, scope and critical milestones.
• Manage relationships with project team members, third party vendors / service partners, release teams and client areas as appropriate.
• Foster an environment that encourages productivity, innovation, teamwork and a high level of professionalism.
• Assists with test execution when required to meet project timelines.
Job Requirements
Specific Educational Requirements/Accreditations:
• College diploma or university degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• Accreditation in Certified Software Tester (CSTE) and Certified Manager of Software Testing
(CMST) or equivalent is an asset
Qualifications/Skills/Experience:
• Must have 2-4 years of job-related experience in test management/leadership.
• Strong knowledge of testing including risk-based testing, software development practices and
methodologies, version control and defect management practices.
• Testing experience with large, complex, highly integrated applications.
• Sound understanding and working knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC) and project
management life cycle (PMLC) methodologies.
• Experience working with third party service partners in both on and offshore models.
• Good project financials management skills (estimating, budget creation, tracking, forecasting).
• Ability to manage testing teams across multiple projects simultaneously.
• Thorough understanding of how to optimize test activities across projects in order to achieve
optimum use of test resources and execution cycles.
• Experience using HP Quality Centre and automation testing tools (QTP, Loadrunner, SOATEST, etc)
would be an asset.
Skills:
Mercury Testing Tools QC
Mercury Testing Tools QTP
PMLC
SDLC
Testing
Job Details
| Date Posted: | 2011-11-27 |
| Job Location: | Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
| Job Role: | Technology/IT |
| Company Industry: | Banking |
| Monthly Salary: | US $7,000 |
Preferred Candidate
| Career Level: | Management |
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