Full-Time Test Manager

Job Description

We believe that every company benefits from business agility to excel in the market. We optimize how ideas become business value pragmatically, supporting and improving people, processes, and tool ecosystems with multi-disciplinary teams. Our Testing Consultants are a strategic part of BizDevOps Services, a comprehensive offering focused on methodology, tools, and coaching.

As a Test Manager, you are responsible for:

1. Planning testing activities.
2. Creating and following up on sprint test plans and regression test approaches.
3. Monitoring and managing testers.
4. Creating and following up on test plans.
5. Reporting on test progress and quality.
6. Preparing test analysis for execution, using relevant documentation.
7. Ensuring traceability between requirements, tests, and the test plan.
8. Creating and following up on defects.
9. Reviewing tests created by other analysts.
10. Creating test scenarios.
11. Preparing and selecting test data.

Test Team Related:

• Coaching new testers
• Following up on testers
• Facilitating knowledge sharing (tools, tips, best practices)
• Elaborating, implementing, and streamlining a test automation strategy (Ranorex, Cucumber)

Your Contribution:

• Establish infrastructure and structure in projects with a "lightweight" documentation testing approach (including automation) combining ISTQB and Agile methodologies, promoting the agile mindset.
• Develop a test strategy and master test plan from the test policy.
• Coordinate, professionalize, and structure testing activities, ensuring test cases, plans, execution, defect management, reporting all align with ISTQB.
• Share advanced testing knowledge and experience within the team and across projects.
• Adapt the JIRA flow and use X-RAY for test management.
• Coordinate test analysts and automation specialists.
• Define a test automation strategy and oversee implementation.
• Participate in scrum ceremonies, reviews, and status meetings.
• Prepare and execute tests during sprints, and perform coordination tasks.
• Provide regular test progress reports to the project manager in status meetings.
• Provide testing advice and reporting at senior management level, including test process improvements.
• Coach and support business users for E2E testing/UAT.
• Actively participate in the Testing Board, supporting scrum teams regarding testing.

Requirements:

• At least 5 years of relevant experience in agile testing.
• Thorough knowledge of structured testing, methodologies (ISTQB, TMap, V-Model, Agile), and application in client/project contexts.
• Knowledge of tools & methodologies: JIRA Cloud, X-Ray Cloud, Enterprise Architect, MS SQL Server Management Studio, SoapUI, Postman, Cucumber, Confluence, MS Office, Teams, SharePoint.
• Fluent in Dutch and English; understanding, speaking, and reading Dutch and/or French is important.
• Ability to visit clients in Belgium.

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