Test Manager

Key Responsibilities • Develop and implement a test approach/plan for project • Implement the test lifecycle (specifying, planning, executing, and reporting overall tests) with all stakeholders • Ensure testing aspects are addressed early in the project lifecycle and provide support to the project team • Specifications of test cases/scenarios to validate and cover requirements (functional and non functional) • Ensure test planning for all testing activities • Ensure test environments are available with required test data • Ensure execution of all planned tests, retesting of defects, and regression testing, including non functional tests • Establish reporting mechanisms for testing and defects, and ensure continuous tracking and reporting of test and defect status • Regularly providing reports on test status • Establish communications on testing and actively conduct required meetings • Actively communicating and coordinating with project managers, business users, internal/external software testers, and software engineers to ensure projects consistently deliver high quality • Ensure business sign-off for productive deployments • Support if necessary, during runbook execution and productive rollout Required Profile • A minimum of 5+ years of test management experience, ideally in an international project environment, 3+ years of experience in software testing, ideally in the energy and trading sector • Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, computer science or in similar related field • ISTQB Certification (Test Manager) or similar • Experience in working with agile project management/test management tools like the Confluence Suite/JIRA, Xray • Experience in writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test cases, and in designing and executing functional, system, integration, end-to-end (E2E) and user acceptance test (UAT) scenarios. • Full understanding of SDLC, QA, Test Case and Defect Lifecycle in Agile Setup • An understanding of the trading and/or energy sectors and how applications, technology and IT services support the business processes • Good communications and inter-personal skills, team and goal oriented, analytical, and problem solving skills are highly valued • Fluent in English; competency in German and French is advantageous