Senior Test & Release Manager
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£55,000
(£28.21 per hour)
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Description
Bravura’s Commitment and Mission
At Bravura Solutions, collaboration, diversity and excellence matter. We value your ideas, giving you room to be curious and innovate in an exciting, fast-paced, and flexible environment. We look for many different skills and abilities, as well as how you can add value to Bravura and our culture.
As a Global FinTech market leader and ASX listed company, Bravura is a trusted partner to over 350 leading financial services clients, delivering wealth management technology and products. We invest significantly in our technology hubs and innovation labs, which inspire and drive our creative, future-focused mindset. We take pride in developing cutting-edge, digital first technology solutions that support our clients to achieve financial security and prosperity for their customers.
About The Role
Reporting to the Test Programme Manager, the Test & Release Manager is responsible for the implementation of the Sonata platform for our clients. You will play a critical role within a layered, multi-disciplinary team, ensuring all aspects of testing, defect management, and release delivery are executed to the highest standard. This role requires strong client collaboration, governance leadership, and hands-on ownership of incident and triage processes. If you are a confident consultative Test Leader who thrives in a client facing environment and understands how to balance quality, governance and commercial delivery, then this role is for you.
What You’ll Do
At Bravura Solutions, collaboration, diversity and excellence matter. We value your ideas, giving you room to be curious and innovate in an exciting, fast-paced, and flexible environment. We look for many different skills and abilities, as well as how you can add value to Bravura and our culture.
As a Global FinTech market leader and ASX listed company, Bravura is a trusted partner to over 350 leading financial services clients, delivering wealth management technology and products. We invest significantly in our technology hubs and innovation labs, which inspire and drive our creative, future-focused mindset. We take pride in developing cutting-edge, digital first technology solutions that support our clients to achieve financial security and prosperity for their customers.
About The Role
Reporting to the Test Programme Manager, the Test & Release Manager is responsible for the implementation of the Sonata platform for our clients. You will play a critical role within a layered, multi-disciplinary team, ensuring all aspects of testing, defect management, and release delivery are executed to the highest standard. This role requires strong client collaboration, governance leadership, and hands-on ownership of incident and triage processes. If you are a confident consultative Test Leader who thrives in a client facing environment and understands how to balance quality, governance and commercial delivery, then this role is for you.
What You’ll Do
Relationship Management
- Partner closely with clients to ensure clarity and alignment on testing, defect management and release processes.
- Collaborate with internal Test Practice Leads, Test Managers, Lead Business Consultants and Development teams to prioritise defects, allocate resources and streamline efficiencies.
- Monitor overall client test progress and proactively raise risks or issues.
- Agree release scope with clients and manage delivery through to completion.
- Own, develop and deliver client specific test strategies, including approach, plans, incident management and test phase exit & entry criteria.
- Ensure accurate forecasting and effective governance across all testing activities.
- Manage internal and client-facing reporting on release scope, progress, and incidents.
- Drive adherence to best practice testing principles and continuous improvement.
- Take full ownership of defects and incidents throughout the project lifecycle.
To be successful in this role, your background and experience will include:
- 6+ years experience as a Test Manager within a consulting, technology or financial services environment.
- Proven experience leading testing teams within commercial software implementations.
- Educated to degree level in a science, engineering or mathematical subject.
- Strong knowledge of structured testing techniques and the software development lifecycle.
- Experience working within successful technology implementation programmes.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, facilitation skills with a strong commitment to drive quality and improvements.
- Experience of market retail savings and investment products.
- Commercial awareness including effort estimation and budget management.
- Familiarity with Agile delivery methodologies.
Our people are the heart of our business. We work hard to provide a rich employee experience and a robust framework for ongoing career development.
- Competitive salary and employee benefits scheme
- 2 paid volunteering days and a range of community-based initiatives to get involved in
- Parental (including secondary) leave policy
- We are enthusiastic and adventurous with a large global reach; we have employees, offices, and customers across the world utilising our award winning solutions.
- A friendly, social and supportive global team that thrives on delivery & embraces diversity
- Generous Reward and Recognition programs
- Flexible Hybrid workplace
We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion so even if you don’t match every listed skill or tick all the boxes, we’d still love to hear from you.
Please note that interviews are primarily conducted virtually and if you require any reasonable adjustments or would like to note which pronouns you use, please let us know.
All final applicants for this position will be asked to consent to a criminal record and background check. Please note that people with criminal records are not automatically barred from applying for this position. Each application
will be considered on its merits.