Digital Test Manager

Working on behalf of a Local Authority, Aatom Recruitment has an opportunity for Digital Test Manager on a 2 month contract with a possibility of an extension.

This position will be a total of 37 hours per week, with hours from 09:00am – 17:30pm.

Job Purpose:

This vacancy will enhance your skills and experience enabling you to support the transformation of our Digital Services and add real value to the Council and its residents. This role is for candidates who are diligent, communicative, care about customers and want to make a difference.

Job Specific Accountabilities:

• Build a centre of excellence for testing across the Digital Services team and LCC as a whole.
• Ensure that solutions are validated against requirements, that testing is carried out to the correct standards and provide assurance that the delivered solutions are fit for purpose.
• Ensure that any new services or changes to existing services can be moved through the change management and release management processes with minimal risk to operational services.
• Ensure that service changes are not prematurely deployed to production systems and improve the overall quality of the services provided by Digital Services.
• Ensure upgrades for SaaS products are adequately tested to ensure the existing configuration is not impacted
• Provide a consistent framework for testing the introduction of both major and minor changes to production systems and infrastructure
• Ensure that systems meet the agreed functional, non-functional, and business requirements in line with the agreed solution designs
• Support and feed into the Change Management and Release Management processes, by ensuring that testing activities have been completed, documented and signed-off
• Be the voice for continuous improvement of testing process and tools to help achieve organisational goals efficiently
• Enable staff at various job levels to adopt best industry standard practice

Knowledge, Qualifications and Experience:

• Knowledge of Testing and Validation including automation tools, acceptance testing and integration testing.
• Experience of developing organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for testing.
• Experience of planning and leading strategic, large and complex testing activities including managing risks and opportunities associated with testing.
• Experience of developing organisational testing capabilities and methods to solve complex business problems for applications and infrastructure.
• Experience of driving adoption of and adherence to testing policies and standards.

To get more information about this role and how to apply please contact Jordan.