Programme Test Director/Lead

 Programme Test Director/Lead – S/4 HANA

Test Lead, Test Director, Testing Strategy, Test Management Office, S/4 HANA, ERP, WMS, Warehouse Management, Customer Investment Management, FMCG, Logistics, Distribution,

6 Months contract – Extension highly likely

£750 - £850 per day

Uxbridge – 1-2 days per week

A Programme Test Director is required by our client, a well-respected consultancy firm operating onsite at their Global FMCG end client. As the Programme Test Director you will be responsible tor the Ongoing ownership and management of a Test Management Office (TMO) function in support of a major digital transformation across S/4 HANA and other applications.

• Managing a team of Client & Partner Test Delivery, Test Governance and other Test specialists, providing leadership and assurance to ensure excellent delivery, whilst freeing the Client Head of TMO from basic Test Delivery overheads / administration

• Working with each of the Workstreams (and future projects) to ensure suitable and proactive Test planning is delivered to the projects and not requested by the projects.

• Responsible for oversight of 3rd party Test delivery including document review and sign off, resourcing, deliverable quality, issue resolution and necessary escalation.

• Responsible for the high-quality delivery of testing services and the production of testing deliverables, with adherence to the Client Test Framework, and alignment to the governance model.

• Supporting the Client Head of TMO as needed with Special projects, resources, deliverables, out of office support.

• Form long term strategic relationships with 3rd party suppliers to provision industry leading testing services for the Client.

• End to end management of the test tooling landscape to ensure consistency and adherence to the TMO Framework

• Responsible for the management of testing demand within the client, including appropriate forecasting and planning.

• Delivery of key Governance and Operational reporting, metrics and KPIs to Leadership

• Applying TMO framework to support Agile, CI/CD, DevOps, Waterfall, and other hybrid approaches, as required.

Experience

• A highly experienced testing professional, with experience of test delivery and oversight roles across different types of technology change and testing projects, including software / applications, infrastructure, middleware, devices / end user computing, and digital / desktop services.

• Highly capable people manager, adept at building and coaching a team of professionals with the right mix of grades, skills, and experience to support delivery and project growth; Able to motivate people, build a ‘learn it all’ rather than a ‘know it all’ culture, and foster an environment in which everyone’s opinion is valued.

• An advocate for Test Governance and Frameworks to ensure the correct controls are in place for an effective and efficient testing across the project portfolio.

• Ownership of testing processes, strategy, approach, execution reporting, closure, and assurance on testing

In the first instance please submit your CV.