Description
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).
Responsibilities:
1. Work with a small team of Software Developer in Test specialists ensuring test plans are understood, integrated, delivered and automated where possible
2. Coordinate and manage test schedules
3. Build and maintain testing artefacts, looking ahead for future opportunities or blockers, and ensuring decisions by teams align with the strategy
4. Identify operational improvements and work to ensure a stable service that can be enhanced
5. Anticipate and mitigate against project challenges or risks
6. Work with and support third parties in providing testing services
7. 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.
Essential Skills & Experience:
8. 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
9. Mariadb/Oracle/Mysql/AWS Aurora experience (2 or more)
10. 2+ years (within the past 5 years) of MySQL scripting
11. 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
12. 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
Desirable Skills & Experience:
13. 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
14. Technology knowledge – good experience of: Infrastructure testing tooling(Kubernetes, Terraform)
Automating OAT (for Web applications and RESTful APIs)
15. Automating Acceptance Testing (for Web applications) using Playwright
16. Automating Regression Testing (for Web applications)
17. Non-Functional Testing (performance, load)
18. SC Clearance is an advantage as it will mean you can hit the ground running