Data Test Manager

Overview

You will direct and manage the full project-life cycle and set standards for assignments and applications. You will be responsible for the delivery of the defined work packages to the client, provide effective management to teams and give guidance to key business users.

Responsibilities

• Capture project/programme environment and data requirements
• Manage the provision of environments and data to meet those requirements
• Data Strategy - Manage and control data for various purposes and streams, not limited to:
  • Automation
  • Core Product
  • Client specific customisations and configuration
  • Ensure compliance with Industry standards and certifications
• Test Data Management: discover, profile, extract, generate, subset, mask, load, validate, refresh, purge test data and resolve defects of test data, using appropriate TDM tools
• Develop processes for governance strategies of test data
• Develop and implement test data management strategies and plans to provide right sized, production like, reusable and secured test data, per test data requirements.
• Status reporting.
• Knowledge transfer and arriving at SLAs for steady state.
• Research and maintain knowledge of emerging technologies.
• Maintain knowledge of existing and proposed legislation.
• Develop strategies and directs teams with diverse scope
• Ensure that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets, are signed off
• Use project planning tools and participate in the identification of and planning for future resource needs.
• 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.
• Building Strategy and policy definition, using industry best practice, specifically around data modernisation changes in the cloud
• Specify the test environment for whole life-cycle testing and ensure it reflects business requirements for execution
• Consult with key business stakeholders to ensure application design is optimised for testability
• 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
• Provide quality assurance evaluation estimates on various projects, including the ability to execute vision, goals and direction of a team/teams.
• Diagnose problems and probes underlying issues to generate multiple potential solutions.
• Can proactively anticipate and prevent problems, facilitate buy-in and guides implementation of corrective and/or preventive actions for complex issues
• Creates quality assurance procedures and user instructions to ensure a reusable process and tools approach
• Define and implement quality process improvements and metrics focused on defect prevention.
• Advise on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects or release level
• 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 Advanced advantageous
• Additional course or certification in Quality Assurance
• Project Management qualification

Skills

• Kafka, Confluent cloud, data bricks
• Experience implementing data mesh
• Excellent client-facing skills
• 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
• Team work and emotional intelligence
• Good self-management – continuous performance is both an objective and a mind-set
• Has an innovative approach – a bold thinker and doer, matching creativity with vigilance
• High value on openness and transparency
• Excellent communication and presentations skills
• Experience of introducing new concepts or strategies that significantly improve or revise the way business is done through to implementation.

Experience

• Experience in delivering IT change related to Data & Analytics
• Experience working with Snowflake, Databricks, Power BI, DataWorld & Kafca
• Used to working with technical engineers & technical teams
• Appreciation of Data Quality and complex data workflows / end to end integrations
• Reporting background
• Understand functional and non-functional change on the data space
• Ability to deliver a QA framework for the Programme Data & Analytics changes
• Agile Automation / Regression
• Understanding of how data changes are delivered and managed in BAU and made operational (back ups, disaster recovery)
• Experience in delivering IT change related to Data & Analytics
• Strategy and policy definition, using industry best practice, specifically around data modernisation changes in the cloud
• Experience working with Snowflake, Databricks, Power BI, DataWorld & Kafca
• Used to working with technical engineers & technical teams
• Appreciation of Data Quality and complex data workflows / end to end integrations
• Reporting background
• Understand functional and non-functional change on the data space
• Ability to deliver a QA framework for the Programme Data & Analytics changes
• Automation experience that’s relevant to above, activity tied to Dev Unit Test automation and other forms of Agile Automation / Regression
• Understanding of how data changes are delivered and managed in BAU and made operational (back ups, disaster recovery etc.

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ours peers through good times and challenges
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• Expleo academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more
• 25 days annual leave (increased to 27 after 2 years of service)Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo
• Access to discounts and offers through my Expleo benefitsEnhanced maternity and paternity, adoption and shared parental leave package
• Flexible, blended working model 

“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”.

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