Test Manager

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.

EQ's vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.

Role Summary

The individual will work on various projects simultaneously, providing support and assistance to the Project Stakeholders and Project Managers during the software development lifecycle (SDLC), ensuring all testing processes and procedures are followed as detailed in the Test Strategy and Test Plans.

Core Duties/Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

• Write test planning and approach documentation.
• Prioritise and manage the delivery of QA tasks for the relevant area in line with Waterfall development methodologies for configuration projects to ensure compliance with STLC & SDLC governance.
• Manage and review test estimation, scope of test effort and associated risk assessment reviews for proposed projects.
• Implementing changes to the testing of configuration processes to the pension, payroll administration systems
• Use own technical knowledge and experience to provide practical support to the team in the testing and QA of software and platforms in the relevant area to ensure they meet and/or exceeds customer expectations.
• Manage team performance to ensure work is delivered within the appropriate quality standards, project management requirements, status reporting expectations, and escalation processes.
• Engage and motivate the Testing and QA team in the relevant area to sustain high performance, including setting objectives, managing and reviewing performance in line with EQ business and EQRS strategic plans, and providing opportunities for professional, technical and career development where appropriate.

Skills, Capabilities and Attributes

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following experience, skills, and behaviours and able to fulfil the roles:

• Must have experience of working with programme / project managers to derive the main testing milestones and associated risk reviews.
• Ability to manage and control the delegation of work across multiples projects, monitoring the resource schedules, individual timesheets and the MI reports for cost control.
• Having a background on UK pensions and payroll to be able to clearly transfer knowledge on the complexities of UK pensions and payroll to onshore and offshore test professionals would be advantageous.
• Must have a solid background in test risk management, with experience to assess when enough testing has taken place while assessing the risks.
• Either SC (Security Check) or DV (Developed Vetting) clearances will be required, so any previous clearances (open or expired) is advantageous.
• Working with BAs on monitoring change control against original requirements for impact analysis ensuring these are captured within a traceability matrix or within Ms DevOps/Jira
• Technical Standards and Processes: Creating a test strategy for a programme or project; Setting testing standards across the team; Defining quality stage gate.
• Behaviours: Recognises when others require support and guidance and creates an environment where each person has a voice
• Behaviours: Regularly reflects on practices and outcomes to drive continual improvement
• Behaviours: Good communication skills with experience of dealing with senior project stakeholders and business ambassadors
• Technical: Understanding and application of test methodologies including estimation; planning (QA milestones, key test activities, interdependencies, and resource requirements)

What We Offer

• Save For Your Future - Equiniti Pension Plan; Equiniti matches your pension contributions up to 10%
• All Employee Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) - Gives all EQ Colleagues the opportunity to benefit if the current owners successfully sell the company for a profit.
• Health and Wellbeing - Employee Assistance Programme: counselling, legal & wellbeing support for colleagues and their households. Life assurance cover at 4x salary with the ability to purchase enhance cover.
• Employee discounts - Discounts and cashback at your favourite high street stores through our EQ Wins Platform.
• Flexible Benefits - The ability to purchase a wide variety of benefits through our flex plan; gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading and more.
• Time Off - Typically 28 days holiday + bank holidays. 2 volunteer days to get involved with a charity of your choosing.
• Winning together - Equiniti ICON award vouchers; recognising the individuals going above and beyond to help the business succeed.
• Learning & Development - Investment in LinkedIn Learning for all colleagues.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of 5 year activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit, Sanctions & CIFAS checks