Job Description – Test Lead
MUST HAVE A STRONG BACKGROUND OF USING
MS DYNAMICS 365
Excellent Contract opportunity offering as follows:
Day Rate: £500-£650pd + Expenses
Status: OUTSIDE of IR35
Initial Contract until 31/12/2020 - Probable extension until 31/12/2021
Opportunity to work from home on Monday & Friday!
The Test Lead is a key member of the Global ERP Programme, will ensure that the solution, functionality is ‘fit for purpose’ and operationally ready against agreed acceptance criteria for the Global single ERP solution.
Support the Team (and country/regional SME’s) in the functional / non-functional testing (SIT / OAT / UAT), this will involve production of the Test Strategy, Testing approach, Test Cases / scenarios and acceptance criteria to support UAT execution and sign-off.
This role will involve ownership, establishing Testing rigor and governance on all Global Test Strategy / Templates.
Accountabilities & Responsibilities:
The Test Lead will need to be dynamic and able to deliver to the highest standards of test approach & methodologies
Defines and implements the overall Test Strategy, Test approach; works effectively with the IT Team and Programme to determine which types of testing (e.g. functional, non-functional, UAT) are required and aligns the business and IT test phases
Ensures that all test phases have appropriate entry / exit and acceptance criteria and monitors achievement of these criteria. Defines the business solution acceptance criteria and obtains sign-off against these prior to go-live
Understands the overall project or programme benefits and how the delivered solution impacts these; selects appropriate test approaches (e.g. risk-based) to ensure delivery of benefits is not compromised
Creates and maintains demand / supply for test resource and negotiates where demand outweighs supply
Ensures effective issue escalation to senior management where there is a significant threat to delivery
Defines roles and responsibilities for the test team including specific responsibility for production of all test deliverables
Implements a well-structured approach to test defect management and incident reporting (using a Global standard defect Mgmt. system)
Works with IT team, to ensure the availability of appropriate test environments and data
Owns and resolves issues around the technical solution delivered into the business test environment
Contributes to the definition of the cut-over approach, is key to the go / no-go decision making process and supports the solution through the warranty period
Determines whether test phases will be automated and selects and implements appropriate test tools Produces the overall test delivery plan defining the business and IT test deliverables and milestones, test tasks and activities; tracks progress against this and implements strategies to recover slippage
Uses different approaches to estimating (top-down, bottom-up) to estimate timescales, effort and costs for the testing phases
Monitors and reports the status and progress of each test phase to different stakeholders and to agreed standards
Works within the overall project or programme governance defined by the Project / Programme Manager and contributes to formal project reviews at appropriate points in the programme / project lifecycle