Portfolio Test Manager

Provide end-to-end testing best practice advice and guidance to programme / project lead, liaising with business stakeholders to ensure required resources in place to execute UAT testing.

To work with the Delivery leads and their teams to ensure offshore vendor testing capability and plans are sufficient to meet project time, cost and quality standards.

Maintain an understanding of industry trends in testing and ensure the best practice embedded in test strategies and plans.

Support the Head of Testing Services, ensuring continuous improvement within the testing function in order to help drive the strategic agenda.

Manage the overall test strategy, planning and co-ordination of all phases of testing

Ensure the delivery of testing to agreed baselined time, cost and quality in adherence with departmental best practice, relevant, appropriate and agreed testing methods, standards and policies for both waterfall and agile methods of delivery.

Successfully manage the working relationship with the testing Vendor as required to fulfil all testing commitments and plans

Operate as a testing SME and provide advice to determine the most appropriate testing strategies for projects or programmes

Definition of Test Strategies, Plans and Approaches as required and in line with best practices

Ensure the offshore test team is resourced to undertake the required test planning, specification, management, execution and reporting to meet agreed business and non-functional requirements within timescale and cost constraints

Ensure accurate and timely reporting on testing progress in accordance with agreed project/department/release management timescales

Regular QA of Vendor output ensuring adherence to testing policy and practices can be evidenced

Overall responsibility for managing our test environment and data requirements to ensure compliance with any DLG set guidelines

Ability to demonstrate: Technical skills commensurate with defined experience Excellent interpersonal skills, both written and verbal Adherence to defined standards and ways of working Capability to manage and lead a team of systems analysts with varied experience Effective running of daily and weekly progress and governance meetings Provision of technical direction to team members Assurance of the quality of deliverables

Technical skills commensurate with defined experience

Excellent interpersonal skills, both written and verbal

Adherence to defined standards and ways of working

Capability to manage and lead a team of systems analysts with varied experience

Effective running of daily and weekly progress and governance meetings

Provision of technical direction to team members

Assurance of the quality of deliverables

Experience in creating and managing a high-performing team

Ability to advise and guide Business Analysts, technical and business SMEs through interactive/agile approaches.

An ability to advise and guide Application Delivery Managers and Solution Designers to ensure the proposed solution fits with the overall system design principles.

Build and maintain relationships with third party suppliers, managing immediate resource demands

Ensure that Vendor can evidence traceability between requirements, test specification and test execution and adequate records of the test process and the quality of the test effort, with the production of a Test Summary Report

Identify, own and manage the risks involved in running our business appropriate to my role, in line with DLG guidelines

Communicate with senior stakeholders, providing explanations of the consequences of test results

Day to day working with the Delivery Leads and their teams to ensure all testing deliverables are integrated and delivered in line with baselined project plans

Effectively managing Vendor through

Ensures the assignment of work meets the skills of the resource and the needs of the organization

Vendor demonstrates appropriate adherence to DLG policies and controls

Effective communication that engages Vendor and encourages them to maximize their value add

Ensure the delivered system functions meets the functional specification including integration, usability, verification, accuracy of all outputs etc.

Ensure the system meets volume and performance requirements including soak, load, bottlenecks etc.