Test Manager Lead

Job description

Securitas Group

Securitas is a world-leading safety and security solutions partner that helps make your world a safer place.

By leveraging technology in partnership with our clients, we offer a broad portfolio of value-enhancing services and solutions integrated across the security value chain – from on-site services to advanced monitoring, comprehensive risk prediction and advisory services.

With around employees in 44 markets, our innovative, holistic approach with local and global expertise makes us a trusted business partner to many of the world's best-known companies.

Benefitting from almost nine decades of deep experience and guided by our values of integrity, vigilance, and helpfulness, we create sustainable value by helping our clients optimize their operations and protect what matters most - their people and assets.

Securitas IT

Securitas vision is to become the Intelligent Protective Services Partner through being client centric, data driven, and people focused.

Our protective services help make your world a safer place.

Securitas IT is a global function that creates the capabilities of a modern and powerful IT technology needed to fulfil Securitas business strategy.

 We develop and invest in technology and people.

Our 700 co-workers support digital products and services for clients and transforming and protecting our existing IT landscape, making sure our 341,000 colleagues all over the world can work efficiently in a modern IT environment

We're looking for a skilled and
proactive Test Manager to lead testing efforts across both strategic IT
transformation projects and our business-as-usual (BAU) operations.

In this
role, you'll be instrumental in ensuring the quality and reliability of newly
developed solutions while also maintaining and improving the performance of our
existing systems.

You'll collaborate closely with
project teams, stakeholders, and business units to define test strategies,
manage test execution, and continuously enhance our testing practices.

If you
thrive in a dynamic environment where you can make a real, we'd love to hear
from you.

Responsibility

• Overall responsibility for test governance within the company and test organization
• Developing a test strategy, and test policies that align with the business objectives and stakeholders' expectations
• Create and manage Test Plans and manage/coordinate all test activities
• Responsible for common strategy being followed in the program and BAU
• Selects and manages testing tools that supports the testing process, such as test management tools, defect tracking tools, and test automation tools
• Coordinates between platform test managers
• Reports weekly status to Program leadership and BAU leadership
• Manages the testing team, including hiring, training, and mentoring team members to ensure that they have the necessary skills and knowledge to perform their roles effectively
• Identifies opportunities for test automation, creation of test automation scripts and implementing automated testing tools
• Coordinates between platform test managers and collaborates with stakeholders, including product owners, business analysts, and other project team members, to ensure that testing aligns with project goals and objectives
• Supports countries for recruiting new test managers
• Responsible for Test environments (SIT, UAT) - Ensures that the test environment is properly configured and maintained to support testing activities
• Define and ensure test data approach for SIT, UAT
• Responsible for performance tests
• Responsible for implementation of test automation
• Responsible for test automation to be executed during regression testing

Required skills & experience

• Experience in test management or quality assurance (10+ years in similar roles)
• Good communication skills and be fluent in written and spoken English
• An academic degree in Computer Science or technology or equivalent work
• Experience of formal test processes and related test strategy issues
• Experience of system development, preferably where agile methods have been applied
• ISTQB certifications in test management
• Strong understanding of large IT Project Management, Integration and/or Business Application
• Experience and knowledge of several market leading test tools
• Experience and knowledge of working with Azure DevOps
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work and communicate with test managers and project managers in the organization
• Ability to work with business people form different Countries, cultures

What we offer:

At Securitas we believe in doing the right thing and doing it well.

For our customers and our employees.

Our employees come from all walks of life and bring with them a multitude of talents and perspectives.

We aim for diverse representation throughout the company, and we are committed to equal pay, safe working conditions, gender balance and an inclusive work environment with a wide range of skills and development opportunities.

If it all sounds good for you, don't hesitate and apply

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