Test Manager

ASA Recruitment's client, a Public Sector organisation in Glasgow are currently looking to recruit a Test Manager, for an initial 6 month contract (with potential extensions) on a rate £500/day outside of IR35 (based on experience).

• Work with a small team of Software Developer in Test specialists ensuring test plans are understood, integrated, delivered and automated where possible
• Coordinate and manage test schedules
• Build and maintain testing artefacts, looking ahead for future opportunities or blockers, and ensuring decisions by teams align with the strategy
• Identify operational improvements and work to ensure a stable service that can be enhanced
• Anticipate and mitigate against project challenges or risks
• Work with and support third parties in providing testing services
• Work with the wider SDET community to identify appropriate test tooling and frameworks for in house applications and help in assuring releases for the team.

• Technology knowledge - good experience of:
  • Best Practice test approaches
  • Test Automation in CI/CD pipelines (specifically, GitHub Actions)
  • Selenium WebDriver test automation
  • Java and JavaScript
  • BDD test tooling (Gherkin/Cucumber)

AWS environment experience

• Mariadb/Oracle/Mysql/AWS Aurora experience (2 or more)
• 2+ years (within the past 5 years) of MySQL scripting
• Self-management and proactive risk assessed decision making
  • Able to make decisions characterised by managed levels of risk and complexity and recommend remediation as risk and complexity increase.
  • Take ownership of problems and proactively resolve technical problems, ensuring that technical solutions continue to meet the organisation's standards
• Test management facing experience
  • Capable of assessing overall test coverage, identifying gaps and assessing the overall risk position
  • Ability to assess a set of project deliverables, identify test cases and direct Software Developers in Test on priority of identified cases
  • Able to assess test tooling and framework options, rationalise best fit for the team and work with the wider function to embed and operationalise chosen options
  • Experience of taking lessons learned from identification of live defects and using those to drive improvements in future test coverage
  • Ability to document and articulate testing strategy and approach, and embed it within the test discipline
  • Experience of mentoring and upskilling junior colleagues

• Governance
  • Understands technical governance and is able to participate in or deliver the assurance of a service
  • Understands government requirements of governance, auditability and accountability

• Technology knowledge - good experience of:
  • Infrastructure testing tooling(Kubernetes, Terraform)

Automating OAT (for Web applications and RESTful APIs)

• Automating Acceptance Testing (for Web applications) using Playwright
• Automating Regression Testing (for Web applications)
• Non-Functional Testing (performance, load)
• SC Clearance is an advantage as it will mean you can hit the ground running