Senior Software Test Manager
Biffa
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: High Wycombe • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 £80,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AzureCloud
About the role
- Strategic Leadership: Define and execute the organisation’s test strategy, ensuring alignment with product and technology roadmaps.
- Governance & Standards: Establish enterprise-wide testing frameworks, methodologies, and compliance standards.
- Innovation: Drive adoption of advanced testing practices, including test automation, performance engineering, and shift-left testing.
- Team Leadership: Build, mentor, and manage high-performing test teams across multiple projects and geographies - both internal and partner resources.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with senior leadership, architects, and product owners to influence delivery decisions.
- Risk & Quality Metrics: Define KPIs for quality, monitor trends, and present actionable insights to executive leadership.
- Budget & Resource Management: Manage test budgets, tools, and vendor relationships effectively.
Requirements
- Experience: ideally 10+ years in software testing, with at least 5 years in a leadership or managerial role.
- Testing Expertise: Strong knowledge of functional, regression, performance, and security testing.
- Automation Tools: Experience in tools such as Playwright and knowledge of integrating testing in CI/CD pipelines.
- Methodologies: Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, and DevOps practices.
- Soft Skills: Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience with cloud-based testing environments (Azure).
- Knowledge of API testing and Dynamics 365 desirable.
- ISTQB or similar certification.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
test strategytest automationperformance engineeringfunctional testingregression testingsecurity testingAPI testingCI/CD integrationAgile methodologyScrum
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationstakeholder managementmentoringcollaborationinfluencingrisk managementquality metricsbudget managementresource management
Certifications
ISTQB