Head of Requirements, Validation & Assurance

• Right across infrastructure theres a requirement to not only maintain but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage youre at in your career with us youll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life while being safety first and client and customer centric in a friendly fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

  Reporting to the Engineering Director as the Head of Requirements Validation & Assurance you will be working with a multi-disciplined Engineering team to Deliver significant technology projects within Highways. Working through your direct team and indirect subject matter experts in the project and engineering community you will be responsible for creating overseeing/undertaking appropriate governance to ensure that requirements are established (Requirements Mapping) validated (Test Strategy and execution) and assured (evidenced as meeting the customer requirements and applicable standards).
  

  What youll do:
  Establish the process and systems for baselining requirement and recording them
  Lead a community of SMEs to capture and input requirements to the systems
  Ensure inputted requirements have traceability to contractual requirements / obligations
  Manage Test Managers to develop an optimised Test Strategy
  Lead SMEs Testers and Test Managers to successful testing of requirements
  Utilise automation of testing wherever possible to reduce resource burden and allow testing whilst we sleep
  Accountable for validation of collated artifacts as meeting success criteria of requirements and obtain customer approval within timeframes specified by the Programme
  Create an environment strategy to ensure that access to test environments is efficiently utilised without contention and environments are in an appropriate configuration state for the testing to be an accurate reflection of the Live Operational Environment (LOE)
  Establish common automation and success criteria for testing validating and assuring Requirements to be reused in BAU Release Management
  Design and Manage Defect Resolution Process
  Work with Programme Management team to ensure alignment across programmes environment and resources
  Track Assurance Signoff to enable milestone payments
  
  Who you are:
  You are an established leader with experience of delivering assurance across complex technology change programmes in highly assured environments.
  
  Key Requirements:
  Minimum HND/BEng Degree level of education or equivalent experience
  Computer literate competent with MS Office suite Word Excel etc
  Working knowledge of the quality standards and processes and regulatory requirements applicable to the designated discipline/business area.
  Customer focussed and able to deal with internal and external stakeholders.
  A passion for solving problems and providing workable solutions
  Strong analytical and reasoning skills with an ability to visualise processes and outcomes
  Significant experience of effective delivery of engineering and technical resources to deliver designated project requirements to time and within budgets
  

  What we offer:
  At Telent were committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels valued supported and able to thrive. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and encourage diverse perspectives across our teams.
  
  The additional benefits with this role:
  Car Allowance
  Private Healthcare
  34 days holiday including public holidays plus the option to buy or sell days annually
  Company pension scheme
  A range of family friendly policies
  Occupational health support and wellbeing Portal
  Discounts on Cinema Restaurants and Shopping with Telent Reward scheme.
  
  We are guided by our values and behaviours:
  
  Be Inclusive
  Take Responsibility
  Collaborate
  Be Customer-focussed
  
  Join us and help deliver critical infrastructure projects that make a real difference.
  
  Its an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
  
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Required Experience:

Director