Test Manager
Permanent Opportunity for a Test Manager with Banking or Financial Services experience to join a well established organisation based in Dublin city.
This company are adding to an already growing team and the ideal candidate will be talented and highly motivated to evolve the approach to quality in the organisation and manage teams both inhouse and off shore.
The Role / You Will
* Work on client site and with senior management to define and implement testing strategies for large or complex projects
* Review Solution Assessment/requirements specification documentation
* Design, implement and get agreement on test strategy and detailed test plans
* Experience of planning and estimating test preparation and execution
* Test scoping and estimation including resource planning
* Management of test pre-requisites including test environment readiness and test data provision
* Ensure tight management of risks, issues and dependencies.
* Have a good understanding of the defect management lifecycle and use of metrics in testing
* Managing high risk test projects with significant change factors and providing expert advice on design and implementation
* Evidence of having worked on at least one large project from start to finish.
* Manage complex teams of 20+ resources across disciplines and functions
Skills/Requirements
* 6+ years of test management experience is essential
* Experience managing both onshore and offshore teams
* Vendor and stakeholder management experience essential
* Demonstrate an ability and previous experience in reporting at various levels within an organisation and have the ability to alter their medium/content depending on the audience
* Excellent communication skills
* Ability to interact with other teams to derive information required for projects.
* Ability to highlight and escalate risks related to assigned work
* Subject matter expertise in telecommunications or financial services
* ISTQB Advanced certification in Test Management
* Project management certification (e.g. PMI PMP, Prince2)
* Service management certification (e.g. ITIL)
* Candidates MUST be willing to travel to various client sites.
Salary / Package:
* €70K +
* Full benefits package
* Dublin City Centre
For more information, contact Deirdre O'Callaghan confidentially on +353 86 0239661 or email your CV to
I specialize in recruiting for QA and testers, if you wish to discuss this or other testing/QA opportunities, please feel free to contact me.
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