Test and Release Manager

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Job description

Test and Release Manager

£60,000 - £70,000 + benefits

Permanent

35 hours per week (happy to talk flexible working)

Wimbledon

We're the CIPD - the professional body for HR and people development. We are the voice of a worldwide community of more than 155,000 members committed to championing better work and working lives. We've been setting the benchmark for excellence in people and organisation development for more than 100 years, helping members build their professional expertise and organisations build their HR and leadership capability. Given the many recent changes in the world of work, there has never been a more interesting and important time to join us. We offer a friendly and stimulating culture and a wide range of professional development opportunities and benefits such as 28 days' holiday, free access to LinkedIn Learning and flexible working arrangements.

The Role

As the Test and Release Manager you will work on complex business projects associated with the CIPD's transformation and growth agenda. You'll be working together with internal and external developers, to ensure full testing and effective release of software, integration components and sub systems. You'll be key in implementing a strategy underpinned by Automation and NFR testing to improve business practices of new software rollout and integration.

What You'll Be Doing

• Designing and building an automation solution to support our Product & Development roadmaps.
• Working with product, project, development, and operations teams to design and implement best practice testing practices, plans, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Analysing and troubleshooting complex issues in distributed systems and environments.
• Automating processes and solutions to meet business requirements as needed.
• Being responsible for non-functional testing activities, including performance testing, Agile testing, continuous integration testing, user experience testing and accessibility testing.
• Analysing the data gathered (level of quality, time taken, efforts spent, tools & frameworks, level of automation) against quality best practices required for digital world.
• Executing automation suites, regression, and sanity test cases on daily and weekly basis.
• Enhancing the existing automation suite, regression and sanity packs with increased coverage, stability checks and enhanced functionality coverage.
• Maintaining collaborative working relationships with other specialist digital and technology colleagues to develop a shared understanding of systems, applications, platforms, infrastructure, data and integration.
• Ensuring adequate testing requirements are in place during the design and implementation of new digital and technology systems, applications and platforms. Including system integration planning and testing.
• Developing digital and technology use cases (user stories) and collaborating with product managers, business product owners, partners, and suppliers/vendors.

What You'll Need To Be Successful

• Extensive experience in automation, release management, and NFR testing with proven experience of delivering and implementing testing strategies.
• Working knowledge of JIRA.
• Strong working knowledge of waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Demonstrative experience of change and release management.
• Knowledge of current trends and practices relating to automation, continuous improvements, CI/CD pipelines, analytics, and insights generation.
• Knowledge of current trends and practices relating to QA/Test Management activities / productivity analytics and insights generation.
• Solid understanding of change management principles
• Solid experience of automation and load on SaaS based application platforms.
• High commitment to quality & QC processes. Advocating the appropriate level of quality by the resolution of important defects.
• Deep understanding of current and emerging technologies and how they may be applied at the CIPD to drive digital business.
• Passionate about technology and software quality.

Please note, this advert is due to close on Monday 22 November 2021.

If this role describes you and your career aspirations, then click APPLY.

CIPD: valuing everyone as an individual!

The CIPD define diversity as valuing everyone as an individual - we value all our employees, customers and clients as people. Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everybody feels valued, where their talents are fully utilised and organisational and personal goals are met.

We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion, or belief.

Please note, we reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore, we would urge you to submit an application as soon as possible.