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On behalf of UKRI, we are looking for a Test Manager (Inside IR35) for a 5 month contract based Hybrid in Swindon.

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is the national funding agency investing in science and research in the UK.

UKRI invests £8 billion of taxpayers’ money each year into research and innovation and the people who make it happen. They work across a huge range of fields – from biodiversity conservation to quantum computing, and from space telescopes to innovative health care. They give everyone the opportunity to contribute and to benefit, bringing together people and organisations nationally and globally to create, develop and deploy new ideas and technologies.

As a Test Manager, your main responsibilities will be:

Responsibilities:

• You will be Leading the testing workstream
• Defining and implementing the test strategy, processes and standards.
• Planning and managing test resources across all areas of testing.
• Planning and executing all types of testing - both functional and non-functional.
• Collaborating and communicating with a wide range of stakeholders to ensure that testing inputs are coherent and achievable.
• Delivering quality, timely and transparent governance and reporting of status on the overall test effort, highlighting risks and issues.
• Defining testing automation approaches and supporting their implementation.

Essential:

• Experience of test management and execution in the implementation of environments
• Experience of designing test strategies to deliver test cycles (SIT, UAT, Non Functional Testing) for multiple releases/projects.
• Experience in hands on test execution
• Experience of executing testing with multiple vendors and third party integrations.
• Experience of creating and delivering high quality test approaches, plans, outcome reports
• Ability to manage the testing lifecycle in line with the projects environments approach.
• Ability to identify and implement opportunities for simplification / automated tests to improve efficiency.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, UKRI guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

Armed Forces Covenant

UKRI guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".