Programme Test Manager

Excellent Dublin City Centre based Financial Services client looking for an experienced Programme Test Manager to join their existing team for an initial 6-12 month contract, paying a very strong daily rate.

Role & Responsibilities
•Manage the end to end test delivery.
•Engage with PM with respect to project schedule, estimates, costs, RAID items, roadblocks, etc.
•Estimate and obtain management support for the time, resources and budget required to perform the testing.
•Organize the testing kick-off meeting
•Review the project deliverables and status on the regular intervals and ensure smooth deliveries.
•Participate in regular meetings with higher management to communicate accomplishments, plans and issues as well as any risks to the project’s progress
•Manage Project Risk and acts for a mitigation plan.
•Develop and maintain Test schedules, track and forecast project costs and labour hours, and manage project risks
•Maintain the project status always in green, experienced in project quality audits.
•Maintain and update QA manager on resource requirements and make sure the team is on boarded and off boarded on time.
•Manage Transition in a multivendor environment.
•Provide Weekly and Project Closure Reports and thresholds.
•Organize the status meetings and send the Status Report (Daily, Weekly etc.) to the Client
•Focus on employee growth to give resource visibility and accountability for their work.
•Plan Resource Management at various roles.
•Recommend and implement new and innovative approaches for Testing.
•Maintain clarity tasks, allocations and maintain ADS tickets and cost.
•Ensure 100% business continuity

Technical/Practical Skillset:

•To manage the Testing team to ensure the deliverables meets the client requirements and the specified quality and timeline parameter.
•Proactively identify opportunities to drive audit/reviews and run connect program with the accounts with an eye on CSAT and efficiencies industry knowledge.
•Coordinate test strategy development, project planning, scheduling, allocation of test engineers to programs, ensuring test environment availability, generation of test reports, communication of test status and networking to coordinate test activities
•Develop best practices and procedures to be used by the entire team which span various projects.
•Experience in delivering end to end testing in multiple projects.

This is an excellent role paying an above market rate for the right candidate. Should you be interested please contact Stephen Daly on 01 2866666 or stephen@eolas.ie immediately as this is an urgent requirement.