Senior DevOps Test Manager in Guildford

Technical Staffing Resources (TSR) are the in-house agency and master vendor for KBR, a leading global engineering, construction, and services company. KBR supports the hydrocarbon and government services markets on six continents, offering challenging assignments on some of the world's largest and most complex projects.

KBR are a global technical solutions provider with 28,000 employees worldwide, operating in 34 countries and delivering to customers in 80 countries. KBR works collaboratively with their wide customer base to deliver solutions that strive to create a better, safer, and more sustainable world. KBR's Estates Intelligence division specialises in enabling clients to make informed decisions about the operational and strategic management of their estates and asset portfolios.

The DevOps in Test Manager is responsible for delivering high-quality testing, automation, and assurance activities across complex, multi-supplier programmes. The role combines traditional full lifecycle testing with modern DevOps engineering practices, cloud-based automation, data validation, and analytical dashboard assurance. Working closely with the Senior Test Manager, the postholder ensures that all test activities meet programme quality objectives, supplier deliverables, and governance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Test Strategy & Leadership: Support the Senior Test Manager in defining and governing the Test Strategy. Ensure alignment of all test activities with programme quality objectives and milestone deliverables.
• Full Lifecycle Functional Testing (Agile & Waterfall): Deliver hands-on testing across the full SDLC from Unit to Acceptance. Conduct requirements analysis, static reviews, and dynamic test execution.
• DevOps in Test & Automation Engineering: Design, build, and maintain cloud-based automated test frameworks. Embed automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines.
• Backend Data Validation (MySQL): Write and execute MySQL/SQL queries to perform backend data integrity checks.
• Power BI / Power Apps Dashboard Assurance: Validate KPI dashboards and analytical outputs against backend datasets.
• Test Governance, Reporting & Documentation: Produce high-quality test artefacts including test plans, readiness reports, and completion reports.
• Environment & Configuration Management Assurance: Ensure test environment readiness, configuration control, and adherence to data baselines.
• Defect & Quality Management: Own and manage the full defect lifecycle including reporting, triage, RCA, and resolution.
• KPI-Driven Quality Oversight: Use analytics tools to track test coverage, progress, and quality KPIs.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Governance Representation: Represent the testing function in programme governance forums.
• Quality Gate Support: Prepare structured test evidence for quality gateway reviews.

Experience Requirements

• Experience of working on large scale multi-organisational transformation programmes.
• Demonstrate hands-on technical testing competence in both traditional and DevOps environments.
• Possess excellent communication skills and confidence representing the testing function in governance forums.
• Bring a continuous improvement mindset, constantly seeking opportunities to enhance test processes, automation, and quality standards.

Technical Skills/Knowledge

• Extensive hands-on experience designing and implementing test automation frameworks within cloud environments.
• Strong hands-on capability in writing MySQL/SQL queries to validate data integrity.
• Proven experience identifying, analysing, and resolving data-related defects through structured testing techniques.
• Practical experience validating KPI dashboards and analytical reports.
• Hands-on experience using test management tooling, including Jira and Zephyr.

Qualifications/Certifications Requirements

• Degree Educated preferably in a technical subject.
• ISTQB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing.
• Desirable certifications include ISTQB Advanced Test Analyst, ISTQB Technical Test Analyst, and Agile Scrum Master.