Test Manager

The Test Manager will be running a team to deliver live testing across the BT Business corporate unit. You will drive quality testing, acting as the last line of defence to ensure software solutions meet a high standard, enabling release of software to real users generating revenue for the BT Business.

You will also drive the team to ensure quality testing standards are adhered to, delivering own test execution, input into test initiatives to improve how testing is performed/reported and will be expected to support BT's wider quality assurance transformational activities, such as driving higher adoption of test automation and improving the overall test/software lifecycle in general.

What you'll be doing

• Manage a small team of Live Testers made up of both UK staff and third-party partners.


• Perform line management responsibilities for any UK based staff in the QA team.


• Manage senior stakeholders to discuss testing asks and be face of unit.


• Ensure quality testing across for BT Business sector in line with customer requirements, quality standards and budget.


• Drive adoption of automated testing where possible.


• Implement and evolve the testing methods/models for the Live Test area to improve process where possible.


• Support the wider test teams in line with QA best practice.


• Manage and contribute to controlling test budget ensuring test activities are funded and do not go over spend.


• Manage and track QA teams work via BT's strategic toolset i.e. JIRA
  
  Required


• Experience as a Test Manager, or ISEB accredited in Quality Assurance and ready to step into a Test Manager role.


• Test experience across entire test lifecycle, including execution, design, and strategy.


Desired

• Vendor Management experience within BT.


• Understanding/Awareness of CFU/LOB product and or OSS/BSS stack.
  
  BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.


Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.

We value diversity and celebrate difference. 'We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It's fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.'

We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you'll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won't be alone: we'll be there with help and support, learning and development.

This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.


• Annual On target bonus 10% (personal and company multipliers)


• BT Pension scheme; minimum 5% employee contribution, BT contribution 10%


• Life Assurance


• Direct share scheme


• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages


• 50% off EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans and 50% discount for friends and family on EE SIM only plans


• My Discounts gives colleagues access to unbeatable savings on everyday purchases at hundreds of retailers


• Discounted EE TV including TNT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership


• Great support for working parents including pay whilst on maternity, adoptive, and paternity leave


• Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.


• 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service with buy holiday option


• Volunteering days so you can give back to your local community


• Brand new electric vehicle salary sacrifice arrangement, known as 'My EV', Looking in:

- Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
- Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
- Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
- Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
- Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
- Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.