Title: Test Manager
Location: Boca Raton FL (Onsite)
Type: Contract
Description:
- At Client we know that with the right people on board anything is possible. The quality integrity and commitment of our employees are key factors in our companys growth market presence and our ability to help our clients stay a step ahead of the competition.
- By hiring the best people and helping them grow both professionally and personally we ensure a bright future for Client and for the people who work here.
- Client currently seeks a Test Manager to join our team in Boca Raton FL (100% Onsite).
Description:
- The purpose of this role is to drive positive outcomes for strategic technology objectives through application testing.
- Responsible for providing oversight and is accountable for the planning design and execution of application testing in projects of varying sizes including transformational initiatives.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- The following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be required with specific activities changing from time to time.
- Lead application testing activities throughout testing lifecycle (Planning Design Execution and Defect Management)
- Develop system testing (SIT) regression and user acceptance testing (UAT) strategies plans and schedules to verify migrated application functionality
- Ensure clarity of roles and responsibilities for extended testing team members
- Lead testing teams to develop tests execute testing and ensure actual results are captured with defects properly logged in test management tools
- Coordinate and collaborate with performance testing teams to execute performance and load testing
- Coordinate and collaborate with business users to execute UAT
- Drive defect resolution through defect management routines and reporting
- Ensure testing deliverables use client defined processes and artifact templates
- Identify testing dependencies risks and issues and manage remediation plans (RAIDD)
- Build and implement test status reporting including reports required for executive readouts
- Drive progress across test plans working with testing participants to achieve planned milestones removing roadblocks and facilitating cross team discussions
- Working with client leadership provide direction to 3rd party vendor testers that will be assigned to the project
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent work or military experience
- At least 5 years of test management experience
- Proven track record of excellent test management bringing the ability to quickly put structure in place to manage work in a dynamic complex environment
- Partnership skills which are essential for interacting and communicating with key stakeholders at all levels to manage inform and influence outcomes
- Demonstrated executive level verbal and written communication skills
- Highly articulate and demonstrates executive presence
Preferred Qualifications:
- Prior technology or business consulting experience
- Implementation of test automation into project testing efforts to speed up delivery
- Demonstrated understanding of business and technology organization resources priorities and needs
- Experience testing large and complex initiatives within a matrixed organization
- Strong skills in MS Office Suite (PowerPoint Excel Word Visio Project)
- Experience with both Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies
- Strong grasp of test management and technology development lifecycles