Test Manager

About the Role

The Change Delivery team play a key part in the delivery of the University’s 2030 strategy by working closely with other parts of IT Service, Professional Service directorates and Faculties to identify operational requirements, plan, prioritise and deliver IT digital infrastructure solutions for staff and students.

This role will create a testing strategy, principle and policy across plan, build and run IT Service lifecycle for new and existing solutions.

About You

As an experienced Test Manager you will guide and mentor test teams to drive continuous learning and improvements. You will bring industry best practice in testing to contribute to team efficiency and product quality.

As a Test Manager you’ll be working within cross-functional team of designers, developers and testers, delivering across the entire project and product life cycle, from concept/design/build/deploy/test, right through to release and support.

You will be required to use considerable functional, non-functional and automated test tooling knowledge and skills to provide options, and reasoned recommendations.

This role will initially report to the Assistant Director, Change Delivery and as the practice matures the proposal is for the reporting line management to be transferred to Head of Project Management Office.

About IT Services

IT Services is a key enabler to the successful fulfilment of Queen Mary’s strategic goals of excellence in research, and teaching and learning. Our services support students and colleagues and range from email and internet access, to state-of-the-art teaching and learning facilities, business application software and high-performance computing in support of research.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

The post is based at Department W, Whitechapel, London. It is full time, permanent appointment. The starting salary will be Grade 6, in the range of £51,048 - £56,921 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to Helen O’Connor at h.oconnor@qmul.ac.uk

To further details and to apply for the role, please click the ‘further details and to apply’ button.

Interviews are expected to be held 2 weeks after the closing date or shortly thereafter.

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