Test Manager

Salary: £31,030 - £34,623
 
The role

• establish and maintain good relationships with internal and external customers to ensure good quality outcomes are achieved within demanding timeframes;

• develop a view of the risks of product failure on a project and manage teams and individuals to implement test approaches to mitigate this risk;

• communicate with /coach business customers, project managers and suppliers to ensure appropriate coverage of risks and to ensure compliance to IT standards;

• demonstrate knowledge and experience of risk based testing approaches in your previous roles;

• manage a team of individuals with mixed abilities and technical knowledge to successful delivery.

The team

We use IT to achieve our outcomes from reducing the impact of climate change to being the best we can, our IT is our partner and we look to maximise every pound we spend on IT.

Our annual investment in changing our work through IT is over £25million and we need to ensure this is money well spent. 

We are a maturing IT organisation with a need to provide a responsive, agile service to our diverse customer groups within the different environmental directorates.

 

Following a review of our workloads we require a Grade 5 Test Manager, passionate about delivering value for money, who has good understanding and experience of test management IT projects and a willingness to learn new skills and adapt to changing processes. 

If you’re looking for the opportunity and challenge to help The Environment Agency deliver better quality solutions, enjoy and have the capability of working with a wide variety of technologies and stakeholders from across the Environment Agency business and delivery lifecycle, wish to be recognised where you’ve made a difference and continue your development for your next career goal then read on.

Experience/skills required

• practical test management experience on an Environment Agency IT Project or demonstrable experience of test management in your current or previous role, including being responsible for your testing budget;

• practical, hands on experience of project management disciplines, such as planning, work breakdown structures, risk management, issue, assumption and dependency management;

• been shown to be a confident self starter with strong communication, stakeholder engagement , facilitation and influencing skills, an eye for detail, pragmatic and able to work with EA staff at all levels;

• experience of managing or working directly with 3rd Party software suppliers (desirable);

• demonstrated strong written communication and a desire to produce quality documentation as part of a successful project outcome;

• the ability to respond positively to feedback and to work hard for the collective good of the team within which you work.

Additional useful information

 
The role is based in Warrington but we’ll consider other locations in the Bristol or Bridgwater areas for the right individual

Travelling to meet with customer, partners and suppliers is envisaged to be infrequent (once per month on average) but this will vary from project to project.

Interviews will be held in early February in Richard Fairclough House, Warrington.

Please contact Andrea Kearney on 07785 990289 for this opportunity.

 

You can also download the candidate pack for more information. 

Closing date for applications: 02 April 2013.

 

 

If you are applying from the Civil Service please note that the Environment Agency is not a part of HM Civil Service and you would not be a Crown Servant in the event of being appointed. Therefore, you will not be eligible for continuous service. For applicants who currently work in local government or other bodies listed in the Redundancy Payments (Continuity of Employment in Local Government etc) (Modification) Order 1999, you may be eligible for continuous service for the purpose of calculating any future redundancy payment. If you are unsure of your status then you should contact your own HR Team.

 

We are fully committed to having an inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share, so please include clearly any information regarding your preferred working arrangements on your application.