Our client (Banking/Finance) is looking to hire a strong Programme / Senior Test Manager (Security Cleared) to help drive the strategy and direction of testing for a key programme. You will also be responsible for managing the delivery of testing, resource planning, and collaborating with core business stakeholders.
The role will be operating inside IR35, with a pay rate of up to £650 per day.
This position is hybrid working, and will require two days of on-site work in London (City), each week.
The start date for this position is October 2026 and will be a 12-month contract.
Essential Skills:
- Extensive experience of software testing covering the complete project life-cycle, in a structured environment (both iterative/agile and waterfall)
- Extensive experience of a range of software testing types including functional, non-functional, regression, integration, UAT and OAT
- Extensive experience of creating test strategies and test plans
- Extensive experience of test planning and re-planning based on changing circumstances
- Extensive experience of leading software testing, including where both internal and 3rd parties are involved
- Extensive experience of defect management and test management tools
- Experience of risk analysis and Risk Based software testing techniques
- Experience of exploratory software testing and techniques
- Experience of automated software testing tools such as Eggplant, SOATEST, Karate, QTP, Rational Functional Tester, Selenium, Silk Test or Microsoft tools
- Experience of testing sophisticated user interfaces and GUI applications
- Experience of the Microsoft Office toolset (Excel, Word, 'PowerPoint')
- Knowledge of test data provisioning and management
- Knowledge of databases (e.g. tables, constraints, Structured Query Language)
Desirable Skills:
- Experience of software testing Banking Systems and applications
- Knowledge of software architectures & technologies such as XBRL, HTML, VB, .NET, XML, Java, Web Services, SOA, SOAP, Unix/Linux, SAP, Oracle, SQL, SharePoint
- Experience of software testing in web based applications
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