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Responsibility for managing all aspects of the team and its function including advancing testing techniques
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Managing, planning, and monitoring the progress of projects for QA and Testing, ensuring alignment with overall business and project goals
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Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle and to the IS&T SDLC Framework
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Identifying issues, assessing their impact and pro-actively developing and recommending solutions
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Work closely with development teams to aid the process into testing
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Provide appropriate support throughout the UAT process ensuring successful transition to Production and handover to Support
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Communicating status and progress to stakeholders (Business and IT)
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Ensure that SDLC processes are followed
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Establishing the required capabilities to execute projects using defined standards and technologies
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Provision of technical advice, relating to supported technology, to other sections, technology centers and customers.
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Training, coaching, motivating, and evaluating team members
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Work closely with the architecture, development, and support teams
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Play a part in influencing the long-term technical strategy
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Qualified to ISEB / ISTQB Practitioner level (or Intermediate Level with 2+ years post qualification experience)
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Knowledge and appreciation of ITIL and the agreed standard project methodology
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Attention to detail with good organisational, communication skills
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Good interpersonal and influencing skills (consensus building, conflict resolution, etc)
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Ability to deliver complex work with minimal direction Experience of implementing business systems and IS/IT infrastructure
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Experience of managing QA functions
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Good understanding of IT and its application in the business environment
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Good understanding of the MS product suite, including use of MS Office
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Experience in managing teams
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Ability to plan and manage own workload
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Good interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
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Strong technical knowledge of automated build, test and deploy tools
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Very experienced in test management processes and test tools such as Application Lifecycle Management and Jira