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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About the role

The role is for leading a testing of a large-scale migration program for one of our esteemed clients. The candidate is required to be at the client office at least 3 days a week. The test manager is required to work with the multi-vendor team, however, would be owning the overall responsibility of the QA sign off and delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the overall testing strategy, plans, and execution across projects for a large scale project.
• Handle the multi-vendor test team to deliver the project with utmost quality.
• Responsible for overall delivery of the large migration program.
• Coordinate test teams to ensure timely and high-quality delivery of testing activities.
• Define test scope, objectives, schedules, and resource allocation.
• Oversee test design, test execution, defect tracking, and reporting.
• Collaborate with development, product, and business stakeholders to ensure requirements are testable and met.
• Ensure adherence to quality standards, processes, and best practices.
• Provide regular status updates, risk assessments, and quality metrics to management.
• Reduce defect leakage to UAT/production and own the QA KPIs on quality.
• Measure the improvements and present to the client.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience in software testing with prior experience in a test leadership role.
• Strong knowledge of testing methodologies, tools, and defect management processes.
• Proven experience in handling large scale QA programs.
• Experience in bringing/building QA frameworks to fast track the QA cycles.
• Experience managing teams and working in Agile and/or Waterfall environments.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver under tight timelines.
• Extensive knowledge of SQL for testing and analysis.
• Exposure to testing in data migration and familiarity with different test approaches used for migration validation.
• Thorough knowledge of testing and defect management lifecycle.
• Clear understanding of AWS ecosystem and data-related services such as S3, Glue, etc.
• Knowledge of insurance domain is preferred.
• Knowledge of Python, Pytest, and other common tools used for data testing automation.
• Experience in automating parts of data validation using dataframes and Python setup.
• Excellent coordination and communication skills to collaborate with engineering, support teams, and business users to define test cases and execute data validations.
• Contribute to performance testing (e.g., load testing) to validate data handling under stress.
• Contribute to test automation frameworks where applicable.

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