Aston Carter are looking for a Test Manager for a large Dublin based client.

The contract would be for an initial 12 months.

Duties & Responsibilities

Lead and inspire a highly skilled Quality Assurance team responsible for Quality Assurance and product testing.
Manage and operate the testing infrastructure supportive to engineers and quality group, including all system platforms, tools, and build environments
Develop and institutionalize quality assurance best practices across the organization
Work across the engineering team to develop and implement appropriate test beds and create test harnesses that may be reused across product iterations
Plan and implement appropriate types of testing at appropriate development milestones: unit and component testing, system testing, integration testing, load and stress testing, overall performance testing, storage testing, bandwidth testing, as appropriate.
Implement appropriate balance of white box, gray box, and black box testing per product type and system requirements
Hire, train, and manage test leads and test engineers
Design and present test results reports on bug discovery and resolution and overall product performance per test strategies


Skills and Experience:
Essential
5+ years as manager of a software quality assurance organization
5-10 years in quality assurance, with experience writing test strategies, test cases, and in test automation
Thorough understanding and knowledge of quality assurance processes, standards, methodologies, and tools
Enterprise level application and database testing, on multiple platforms, including UNIX, Windows, Mac
Managerial experience in motivating and managing internal lead QA engineers who coordinate multiple outsource vendor partner testing.
Build and release processes and protocols, with working knowledge of source control systems.
Experience defining programs for Automated and Performance testing and developing new automated test procedures
Experience with Load Runner or Silk Performer, QTP, WinRunner and other automated functional and Performance testing tools.
Experience with multiple types of “performance” testing, including specification compliance, load and stress testing, storage and bandwidth testing and capacity planning.
Ability to analyze large amounts of data and determine system areas of deficiency for further testing
Desire and proven ability to improve product quality
Strong interpersonal and proactive leadership skills
Ability to excel in a fast-paced, high-growth environment where action and initiative are prerequisites to performing well
Team player with excellent verbal and written communication skills


Please send your Cv in confidence to lmclean@astoncarter.com or call lewis on +353 1 637 3916



Aston Carter Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.