Contract Test Manager

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Contract Test Manager - 30k - 40k AED (£6,500 - £8,500) per month

Long term contract

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Are you looking to gain commercial exposure to an international client? An opportunity to work for one of the most prestigious organisations in the world based in Dubai has arisen for a Contract Test Manager to work on a long-term contract basis.

As a Test Manager, you will be highly customer focused and obsessed with software quality. You should be a strong, hands on manager with good technical experience and the ability to create, plan and execute a holistic Software Quality Engineering strategy for the Web & Mobile platform.

Skills / Environment

*Experience in designing test automation and innovation strategies for large scale or complex programmes.

*Demonstrated experience with large-scale test automation delivery, complex, cross discipline technology projects, including scope definition, schedule development and stakeholder engagement activities

*Extensive demonstrable experience of multi-tier test automation and test industrialisation methodologies, tools and frameworks, for both agile & waterfall test delivery, such as:

*Acceptance test driven development / Behaviour driven development

*Scripted test automation (e.g. Selenium/Appium, Cucumber, Serenity)

*API test automation (e.g. ReadyAPI, Postman, RestAssured)

*Knowledge of software version control concepts, such as branching, merging, change and release management.

*Experienced in accelerating testing methodologies by complementing stubs and drivers for Integration and API Testing.

*Strong interpersonal/communication skills, and ability to influence, steer, and motivate people at all levels across a broad variety of job functions

*Ability to work with remote teams and across time zones to develop strategies and foster a cohesive and creative work environment; consisting of permanent and supplier test resources.

*Advocate for QA best practices across project delivery, establishing and embedding a programme level testing strategy applicable to all changes and releases

*Own release activities such as defect triaging from multiple teams and ensuring test packs (regression, smoke) are updated to include new functionality.

*Co-ordinate the use and maintenance of test environments for systems across the project, ensuring best practices for data quality, data consistency and supporting programme needs.

Contract rate: 30k - 40k AED (£6,500 - £8,500) per month

This role may suit candidates, who hold the following job titles: Test Manager, Software Quality Engineering Manager, Test Lead, Software Test Manager

Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd is a leading specialist recruitment business for the IT industry. We are keen to build strong relationships with IT consultants based on providing a transparent and supportive service. Now in our 20th year we pay promptly and are a stable contracting partner in good financial health. Deerfoot IT: Est. 1997. REC member. ISO certified. *Each time we send a CV to a recruiting client we donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation (charity no. 1070906). We never send your CV without your email authorisation.

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