Technical QA Manager (FTC - 12 months)

Closing Date for Applications03 May 2024 Salary Range £39,888 - £51,503What is the purpose of this job?RDG’s Quality Assurance Practice are currently seeking a Technical QA Manager to join their team. The successful candidate will bring to the table at least 5 years of experience in testing and/or quality assurance, a strong background in senior test management, a demonstrable aptitude for strategic as well as technical analysis and decision making. A good knowledge of rail industry (not essential), settlement systems, ticketing and test automation will be handy as well.What can I expect to do in this job? The Technical QA Manager will be chiefly responsible for managing and delivering QA across programs and projects with a specific attention to the technical capabilities of QA as a service. They will be required to support the Senior QA Manager with developing and managing the Quasar Framework for RDG along with delivery of automation and CI CD as a key element of QA delivery. As Technical QA Manager within the RDG, this role will be responsible for the testing and the implementation of multiple projects across the organisation and involve stake holder management and reporting. The remit of this role will also include working with the various internal teams, external and internal stakeholders to ensure delivery of technical QA services across programs, projects and BAU. Specific focus on managing automation and CI CD through adoption of the right practices and processes is key.
Professionally qualified with a Bachelor of Technology in Engineering and or relevant Computer Science or Information Technology qualification and an ISTQB or similar certification in Advanced Test Management and Agile.They will also be good leaders, team players and driven to grow the established practise into a stable and sustainable service.It is essential you can demonstrate experience or competence of: Managing, conducting, and ensuring technical QA delivery along with standard QA delivery across projects and programs in line with delivery plans for the departments and services. Support the senior QA Manager to manage and maintain the Quasar Framework and documentation in confluence and ASSIST. Be responsible to Senior QA Manager for the testing tools, templates, and practices within the team, ensuring adherence of these across projects, and to the overall program strategy for all development methodologies – waterfall, agile and iterative. Develop and maintain Test and QA strategies across programs and projects. Support creation and management of test plans and all key QA deliverables within the Quasar Framework. Create, manage, and maintain requirement traceability management for various systems. Manage a broad team of test professionals – onsite, offshore and supplier. Take the lead and support Senior QA Manager in the growth and establishment of Automation (and CI CD practices) within the Quasar Framework. Deliver QA through established tools – ALM, JIRA, PyCharm (Selenium and Playwright etc) and ASSIST, defect management – JIRA, system knowledge and reporting – Confluence. Support and manage requirement traceability with Automated suites through the apt use of branches in GitHub and JIRA Develop and maintain automation pipelines in Gitlab with clear linkage to GitHub. Manage clear management of repositories in GitHub through established processes in branch management and code reviews. Support the generation of Code Review practices and manage it regularly within the team. Environment management of systems through apt use of relevant tools like AWS, Docker and Vagrant. Compliment automation framework with SOAP UI, JMeter and REST. Team Management within a multi faceted environment. Responsibility towards career development and resource management.
30 days annual leave 75% reduction on UK rail travel (for work and leisure) - more below Reduced international rail travel Interest free season ticket loan Contributory defined benefit pension scheme Give As You Earn scheme Subsidised private medical care Healthcare cash plan scheme Employee Assistance Programme scheme Flexible working 30 weeks full pay for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (subject to eligibility) Personal Development Days Employees may sell up to a maximum of five days’ leave.
Employees can buy up to a maximum of five days’ leave. These figures will be pro rata for part-time employees
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