GENERAL INFORMATION

• Location: Dublin
• Available for Work Visa Sponsorship: No
• Business area: UKI Technology Consulting (Digital Assurance & Software Testing)
• Contract type: Permanent
  At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture, and technology to become the best version of you, we are counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.
  EY has a number of career opportunities available, and we are interested in meeting candidates who are looking for a new challenge, one where you can develop your range of skills significantly. Be that a move out of industry into practice, or from within practice into advisory services. We are looking for future leaders with a genuine creative vision and confidence to make it happen. Our opportunities will allow you to apply your expertise to a variety of projects whilst offering you excellent career progression opportunities.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Test Manager within the Digital Assurance and Quality Engineering Team at EY, you will play a vital role as an essential part of our multi-disciplinary and high-performing team. This team is composed of individuals with extensive experience in helping various public and private organizations solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Your role will involve leading the testing efforts in one or more of the following areas

• Taking end to end responsibility for the effective planning and delivery of QA elements of large scale complex strategic and/or transformative projects in accordance with relevant Test Management Methodologies
• Planning, directing, coordinating and reporting on QA delivery activities from test strategy and test planning through to UAT and hand off to end users by leading, directing and overseeing a large team of resources working across multiple workstreams and projects
• Influencing and negotiating testing efforts and focus, often across multiple functions. Prepares and presents defect impact analysis, insights and recommendations to assist defined governance forums and senior client stakeholders with decision making
• Maintaining focus of QA activities to ensure projects deliver on key priorities and dependencies
• Identifing and advises on project level decisions that influence significant project direction and escalates those defects, risks and issues that cannot be effectively mitigated to the agreed governance forums
• Understanding all our consulting service offerings and actively identify opportunities to better serve clients and be able to build meaningful external relationships with our clients and internal relationships across service lines.
• Leading Technology Consulting engagements, managing team performance and commercials including conducting performance reviews and contributing to performance feedback for all levels of staff and managing engagement billings, and estimates to complete.
• Developing people through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring all levels of staff
• Understanding, following, and leading staff in workplace policies and procedures

TO QUALIFY FOR THE ROLE, YOU MUST HAVE:

• A strong academic record including a third level degree, preferably in a business or IT related discipline, from a recognised third level institution
• QA accreditation (ISTQB Foundation, or a similar IT accreditation from a recognised third level institution or accreditation body)
• At least 5 years’ relevant experience working in a client facing role for a leading consulting or professional services company of large-scale complex change/transformation programmes or systems integration programmes or at least 7 years’ relevant experience working for a leading company, in delivery of large-scale of large-scale complex change/transformation programmes or systems integration programmes
• Experience of delivering QA in Agile/ DevOps and V-model environments
• Experience delivering test strategy and test plans
• Experience translating business requirements into test cases e.g. Requirement Traceability Matrix
• Experience with functional and technical specifications
• Experience of functional and non-functional test delivery
• Experience in co-ordinating and managing UAT
• Experience delivering manual testing and test automation
• Experience with JIRA, Azure DevOps, Micro Focus ALM/ Micro Focus QC or ServiceNow tools
• Experience with technical troubleshooting and end-to-end defect management process
• Experience of working in the establishment, training and management of teams comprised of client, contractors and client’s strategic partners.
• Excellent communication skills – tailoring communications to suit a mix of audiences and ability to translate strategy into measurable business benefits
• Have a track record of delivery within several large-scale IT transformation programmes
• Have experience in seeking the alignment of business and IT, operating across organisational and technology silos to drive common approaches, delivering sustainable, agile and re-usable solutions