Highly Experienced Performance/Non-Functional Test Manager Required

The role of a Performance/Non-Functional Test Manager involves effectively leading a project for customers. This entails leading the testing effort and being accountable for any Performance/Non-Functional Test related activity on a project. Feed into centralized projects review meetings to update stakeholders on the status of projects.

This position requires strong leadership skills, as well as excellent communication and problem-solving abilities. The ideal candidate will have experience in managing upwards with multiple people, gaining their trust quickly. They should also have good people skills, with experience of introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other.

Additionally, this role involves collaborating with various teams and stakeholders, including Project Managers, Lead Architects, and Delivery Managers. The candidate should be able to work independently and as part of a team, with a strong focus on delivering high-quality results.

Key responsibilities include:

• Works and coordinates with Project Manager, Lead Architect and Delivery Manager to deliver a project
• Reviews and contributes to the scope, Performance/NFR projects, test design, estimates and closure artefacts
• Manages, leads & coordinates actions on test domain with support of Lead Architect
• Creates and delivers Plan, Strategy and in relation to the Project Plan, the Performance/NFT process, criteria, templates, tools and standards
• Provide escalation support and quality assurance check thought-out the project
• Reviews, leads & coordinates pre-requisites, dependencies, estimates, test design, execution and reporting
• Collaboratively manages the service partners and vendors to deliver projects to high quality and on time
• Provides key stakeholder management with objective view in a multi-vendor, multi-test discipline environment
• Manages the test life cycle and co-ordinates Test Leads and Testers both onshore and offshore

The following skills and qualifications are required for this position:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• ISTQB Advanced Test Manager, preferred
• Additional course or certification in Quality Engineering or IT Management
• Excellent communication skills, maintain confidentiality, shares ideas and information, facilitates discussions and transfers knowledge to diverse audiences to achieve collective objectives.
• Has achieved trusted advisor status at a senior level with the client.
• Excellent client-facing skills and takes time to establish underlying needs of client beyond those initially expressed.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD concepts and tools
• Strong knowledge of databases.
• Exposure to Test Management tools such as Azure DevOps, JIRA or ALM.
• Knowledge of relevant testing tools in performance/NFT and test automation: LoadRunner, JMeter, NeoLoad, Gatling, LoadUI, ALM, Dynatrace, SiteScope, Cucumber or Selenium.
• Knowledge and experience of such tools as Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, AppDynamics or Grafana

This role offers a competitive salary and substantial benefits package, including unique wellbeing, financial and employee recognition programs. We pride ourselves on our diverse and inclusive culture, offering a variety of family-friendly policies and enhanced leave to help you achieve a healthy work-life balance.

By providing significant learning and development opportunities, we encourage individual growth and success throughout your career with us. Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges.

We empower all passionate technology-loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects. Expleo Academy enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses.

Competitive company benefits, including medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more. Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and question the status quo.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.