Portfolio Test Manager in London

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Fractal is a strategic AI partner to Fortune 500 companies with a vision to power every human decision in the enterprise. Fractal is building a world where individual choices, freedom, and diversity are the greatest assets. An ecosystem where human imagination is at the heart of every decision. Where no possibility is written off, only challenged to get better. We believe that a true Fractalite is the one who empowers imagination with intelligence.

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Location: London (Client onsite)

Role Overview: Fractal is seeking a Portfolio Test Manager who is accountable for developing the strategy and managing delivery of all aspects of end to end Testing (functional, non-functional, SIT, end to end testing, OAT, UAT) across a complex portfolio of platforms or major projects, ensuring the offshore testing partners deliver against contractual commitments / base lined plans, departmental best practice and standards and the risk appetite of the stakeholders through the delivery of a signed-off risk based test strategy, test plans and test summary reports.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy: 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. 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.
• Business Delivery: 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.
• Capacity & Capability: Build and maintain relationships with third party suppliers, managing immediate resource demands.
• Risk and Control: 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.
• Stakeholder Management: 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.
• People Management: 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.
• System Testing: Ensure the delivered system functions meets the functional specification including integration, usability, verification, accuracy of all outputs etc.
• Non-Functional Testing: Ensure the system meets volume and performance requirements including soak, load, bottlenecks etc.

Key Qualifications:

• Day-to-day management of a large programme of testing delivery.
• Strong communication, leadership, ownership and accountability management.
• Critical thinking to remove blockages.
• Proactivity identifies and drives test delivery improvements in support of meeting programme milestones.

Fractal provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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