Responsibilities
1. Fully responsible for all testing activities
2. Provide Utilities industry knowledge to enable efficient project decision making and planning for all testing activities
3. To own programme test budget and resourcing, lead the planning and implementation of testing
4. To perform a full quality review of client's testing practices.
5. To provide a detailed short-term and long-term list of improvements to their documentation and processes
6. To manage the implementation of the recommendations, including providing best practice templates and processes
7. To build and implement the independent Testing Governance framework.
8. To manage the daily governance team, ensuring that the correct feedback and risks are raised against the various artifacts for all of the inflight projects"
9. Develops strategies and directs teams with diverse scope on complex programmes of work
10. Ensure that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets, are signed off
11. Use project planning tools and participate in the identification of and planning for future resource needs.
12. Responsible for overall test plan design and processes, applying, articulating and constructing business specific end to end scenarios, define standards for development of test scripts, deployment and reuse.
13. Specify the test environment for whole life-cycle testing and ensure it reflects business requirements for execution
14. Consult with key business stakeholders to ensure application design is optimised for testability
15. Allocate and co-ordinate test schedules, work and resource plans; managing progress of all activities against the plan, managing own deliverables and that of others to meet delivery deadlines
16. Provide quality assurance evaluation estimates on various projects, including the ability to execute vision, goals and direction of a team/teams.
17. Diagnose problems and probes underlying issues to generate multiple potential solutions.
18. Can proactively anticipate and prevent problems, facilitate buy-in and guides implementation of corrective and/or preventive actions for complex issues
19. Creates quality assurance procedures and user instructions to ensure a reusable process and tools approach
20. Define and implement quality process improvements and metrics focused on defect prevention.
21. Advise on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects or release level
22. Input into proof of concept exercises and assist sales with pre-sales collateral.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
ISTQB
Desirable:
23. Project Management qualification
24. ISTQB Advanced
25. Programming skills
26. Additional course or certification in Quality Assurance
Essential Skills
27. Excellent client-facing skills
28. People management skills - introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other, encouraging mentoring and the transfer of knowledge by designing and delivering learning interventions
29. Team work and emotional intelligence
30. Good self-management – continuous performance is both an objective and a mind-set
31. Has an innovative approach – a bold thinker and doer, matching creativity with vigilance
32. High value on openness and transparency
33. Excellent communication and presentations skills
34. Experience of introducing new concepts or strategies that significantly improve or revise the way business is done through to implementation.
Experience
35. Energy & Utilities experience a must, including a good unerstanding of current and upcoming initiatives.
36. Proficient in Gas, Elec, and Water market rules
37. Knowledge of customer billing systems such as Oracle CC&B, & SAP
38. A background in consultancy would be an advantage
Benefits
39. Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ours peers through good times and challenges.
40. We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
41. Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
42. Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more!
43. Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo
“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”