IGT Solutions - Testing Manager

- Experience in designing test automation and innovation strategies for large scale or complex programmes.

- Demonstrated experience with large-scale test automation delivery, complex, cross discipline technology projects, including scope definition, schedule development and stakeholder engagement activities

- Extensive demonstrable experience of multi-tier test automation and test industrialisation methodologies, tools and frameworks, for both agile & waterfall test delivery, such as:

- Acceptance test driven development / Behaviour driven development

- Scripted test automation (e.g. Selenium/Appium, Cucumber, Serenity)

- API test automation (e.g. ReadyAPI, Postman, RestAssured)

- Knowledge of software version control concepts, such as branching, merging, change and release management.

- Experienced in accelerating testing methodologies by complementing stubs and drivers for Integration and API Testing.

- Strong interpersonal/communication skills, and ability to influence, steer, and motivate people at all levels across a broad variety of job functions

- Ability to work with remote teams and across time zones to develop strategies and foster a cohesive and creative work environment; consisting of permanent and supplier test resources.

- Advocate for QA best practices across project delivery, establishing and embedding a programme level testing strategy applicable to all changes and releases

- Own release activities such as defect triaging from multiple teams and ensuring test packs (regression, smoke) are updated to include new functionality.

- Co-ordinate the use and maintenance of test environments for systems across the project, ensuring best practices for data quality, data consistency and supporting programme needs.