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Programme Test Manager / Portfolio Test Lead

Valcon

 

Valcon is a north-western European consulting, technology and data company based in the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and even Croatia.

 

Valcon is private equity backed and in recent years has bought together some of the most exiting companies from these companies to form one of the brightest and most exciting consultancies around.

 

We’re one of the fastest growing companies across Europe and have no plans to stop.

An experienced Test leader with a proven track record of delivering testing strategy, architecture and execution services across large-scale transformation and technology programmes. Responsible for defining and implementing test strategies, test plans, and automation approaches, while leading multi-disciplinary testing teams through the full testing lifecycle

Experience

  • Develop, implement and execute comprehensive test strategies, test plans, and test governance across complex enterprise technology programmes
  • Providing effective test leadership to ensure end-to-end test coverage and traceability.
  • Managing multiple testing teams across enterprise testing phases, ensuring structured planning and execution across Unit, Component, Integration, System, Non-functional, OAT, UAT, Regression, Data Testing and Production Validation activities
  • Defining and implementing test automation strategies and frameworks to shift quality left, improving efficiency and delivery outcomes throughout a CI/CD lifecycle.
  • Promoting shift-right production validation practices that embed quality of live service as a design consideration. • Understanding programme objectives, business outcomes, and strategic goals to ensure testing supports successful delivery.
  • Ensuring team alignment with programme objectives, quality standards, and delivery timelines, including alignment of third-party suppliers
  • Overseeing data flows and data processing and understanding technical integrations with complex architectures and use of appropriate test methods.
  • Driving the adoption of AI-enabled testing techniques and tools to enhance overall quality through test design, execution, defect prediction, and reporting.
  • Providing leadership, mentoring, and governance to large testing teams and stakeholders across business and technology functions. Essential Experience:
  • Test Leadership and governance on large-scale business and technology transformation programmes.
  • Experience developing test architecture and enterprise-wide test strategy. Leading large, multi-supplier test teams.
  • Test automation frameworks and delivery.
  • End-to-end test experience across enterprise test phases (including Unit, Component, Integration, System, Non-functional, OAT, UAT, Regression, Data Testing and Production Validation).
  • Supplier and stakeholder engagement and management at senior levels
  • Experience of leveraging AI within testing and quality assurance practices

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