Test Manager

Job Introduction

Our UK&I QA team have a fantastic new opportunity for a Test Manager.

The successful candidate will play a lead role in managing a high-quality assurance / testing team to provide assurance on the software release process. 

You will be a specialist in latest QA / testing techniques and processes; key to the role is to manage and motivate the team working with internal and external stakeholders as required. 

IS&T systems are broad ranging and complex with several legacy applications requiring increasing levels of integration. Technologies being Quality Assured include SaaS based solutions, IaaS, PaaS, and Azure Cloud based solution working with 3rd party packages and integrations as well as in-house developed solutions 

Working with colleagues across the organisation and within the UK&I IS&T SDLC Framework is a key requirement.

This is an exciting, dynamic, and challenging role. You must be a team player, thrive and apply yourself in a pressurised environment. 

Role Responsibility

• Responsibility for managing all aspects of the team and its function including advancing testing techniques 

• Managing, planning, and monitoring the progress of projects for QA and Testing, ensuring alignment with overall business and project goals 

• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle and to the IS&T SDLC Framework 

• Identifying issues, assessing their impact and pro-actively developing and recommending solutions 

• Work closely with development teams to aid the process into testing 

• Provide appropriate support throughout the UAT process ensuring successful transition to Production and handover to Support 

• Communicating status and progress to stakeholders (Business and IT) 

• Ensure that SDLC processes are followed 

• Establishing the required capabilities to execute projects using defined standards and technologies 

• Provision of technical advice, relating to supported technology, to other sections, technology centers and customers.  

• Training, coaching, motivating, and evaluating team members 

• Work closely with the architecture, development, and support teams  

• Play a part in influencing the long-term technical strategy  

The Ideal Candidate

• Qualified to ISEB / ISTQB Practitioner level (or Intermediate Level with 2+ years post qualification experience) 

• Knowledge and appreciation of ITIL and the agreed standard project methodology 

• Attention to detail with good organisational, communication skills 

• Good interpersonal and influencing skills (consensus building, conflict resolution, etc) 

• Ability to deliver complex work with minimal direction Experience of implementing business systems and IS/IT infrastructure 

• Experience of managing QA functions 

• Good understanding of IT and its application in the business environment 

• Good understanding of the MS product suite, including use of MS Office 

• Experience in managing teams  

• Ability to plan and manage own workload 

• Good interpersonal, communication and presentation skills 

• Strong technical knowledge of automated build, test and deploy tools  

• Very experienced in test management processes and test tools such as Application Lifecycle Management and Jira  

Package Description

Competitive Salary, Company Bonus and Flexible Benefits Fund 

We also offer Sodexo Discounts site promoting discounted mobile phone tariffs, savings across restaurant chains and days out, where you and your family can save money on everything from your weekly food shop to the latest cinema blockbuster and much more.

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process