Position: Senior Test Manager - work only from Poland
Company: Luxoft
Category: QA Automation
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Project Description:
We are looking for Test Manager for our client - one of the world's largest natural resource companies.

You will be a part of cross-functional team responsible for maintaining and modernization of existing trading platform. It is a long-term project that will require close collaboration with business and IT stakeholders and implementation of new new features.
Responsibilities:
As a Test Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for the following:

Stakeholder Management
• Engage and Manage Stakeholders, working closely with the PMs to ensure expectations are met
• To ensure that all stakeholders are engaged in a timely fashion and made aware of the overall testing strategy/process to ensure their participation in the testing phases in the relevant capacity
• To be accountable for ensuring that all test plans are agreed upon, required expectations are met and all sign-offs obtained from the relevant stakeholders


Test Strategy and Overall Testing Ownership
• Managing the projects by performing requirement analysis, creating Test strategy, Test designing, test case documentation, and reporting on an E2E infra test case template that can be reused and adapted by each project as they migrate, and checked off as part of the E2E consolidation
• Responsible for sourcing and providing Test Estimation for in-scope consolidating projects based on the created account, creating micro-segmentation, and lifting and shifting workloads across to new accounts
• Create detailed Test plans and work breakdown structure plans to illustrate resource allocation and scheduling tasks for each consolidating workload – where specific products are concerned working with test experts in those teams to align and pull out essential tasks and milestones and status updates only
• Responsible for Test phases in scope to ensure smooth and high-quality deliveries
• Plan and manage QA effort at the sprint level and work closely with the scrum master
• Participate in sessions to ensure that test scenarios and automation scope is defined and agreed upon with the business for all in-scope user stories
• Review all test deliverables and guide the team accordingly, agree and sort out with project testers what will be reported centrally on the QA board/timeline
• Overall accountable for closure of Test Defects and issues raised to the project team for the consolidation (and or where there is no defect Manager assigned, the Test Manager should perform Test Defect Manager responsibilities)
• Develop and maintain overall Test schedules, track, and forecast/manage project costs and labor hours, and manage project risks
• Track and manage metrics as per Test Metrics and KPIs. Ensure Jira test cases and bugs are reported centrally where ever possible

Communication and Change Management
• Participate in regular meetings with project management at various sessions to communicate accomplishments, plans, and issues as well as any risks to the project's progress
• Manage and Escalate test RAID with mitigation plans, align with BA for regular QA traceability updates
• Provide Weekly and Project Closure Reports and thresholds.
• Work with Programme stakeholders to give inputs to the Lessons learned document.

Team Management
• Team Management, Mentoring, Coaching, and Operational support to team
• Ensure knowledge is recorded and shared
• Support and Co-ordinate team onshore and offshore
Mandatory Skills Description:
• 7+ years of experience in a business facing test-lead and/or project management role
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with prior experience in running test-focused working groups
• Domain knowledge in Banking and Capital Markets, strong preference for commodity trading
• Experience in test automation and running/leaning test automation projects/activities
• Familiarity with SDLC and strong insights into various testing phases, methodology, and tools
• Agile Project Methodology - preferable with experience in automated regression testing
• Ability to write multi-application test strategies, test plans, and detailed test cases with an expected outcome
• Experience in executing and supporting all test phases, defect tracking, and issue closures
• Experience with waterfall & agile methodologies
• Proactive, self-starter, autonomous & highly organized
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Experience of complex, cross-functional, multi supplier projects
• Ability to develop sustainable relationships with key senior business stakeholders
• Any Test certification like ISEB / ISTQB?
• Ability to network within the IT and business environment
• Building effective teams and holding them accountable for results
• Interpersonal communication and collaboration skills
• Highly motivated individual, and a team player who adapts to a dynamic work environment
Nice-to-Have Skills:
• Experience in Consulting Services
• Commodity Trading Experience and/or knowledge
• Capital Markets experience