Test Manager (with Guidewire experience)
- Barcelona
- Permanente
- Tiempo completo
- Define Test Strategy for projects
- Manage testing activities within project(s)
- Support strategic and tactical initiatives
- Collaborate with global teams on strategy updates, planning, and investment prioritization
- Manage key stakeholders, and act as a trusted advisor
- Ensure project compliance
- Take overall accountability for project test delivery plan (Static Testing, SIT, UAT).
- Ensure that all leads are delivering to agreed plan and managing team productivity.
- Work closely with leads to understand and resolve any concerns before they escalate into issues.
- Review and approve all major testing deliverables.
- Provide up to date data, status and judgment on project.
- Identify and allocate resources.
- Review estimates and assumptions to ensure that they still hold true and reforecast as often as appropriate.
- Ensure Stakeholders have up to date information on the project status at all times.
- Ensure that standard processes and deliverables are followed and that any deviations are managed and the risks and potential outcome of those risks communicated and accepted.
- Work with other Test Managers to ensure sharing of experiences, best practices and lessons learnt.
- Ensure that senior management is informed about issues before they escalate, and can intervene as appropriate.
- Ensure regular reporting procedures, both formal and informal, are used.
- Apply Quality techniques and processes throughout the testing delivery lifecycle.
- Resolve issues for all lower levels.
- Provide guidance on policy, national and international quality standards.
- Prepare staffing plans, which may include staff working both on site and remotely.
- Manage customer and vendor relationships.
- Up hold Zurich Standard processes and practices
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Information Technology and 3 or more years of experience in related field such a Test Manager or similar
- At least 3/5 years in financial services industry.
- Experience with Guidewire.
- Experience of quality and testing technology.
- Experience of business transformation.
- Experience in leading high technological skilled teams
- Must have leadership experience providing services for multiple business units
- ITSQB Quality and Test Manager or similar
- Good knowledge of databases, middleware, web services and related standards
- Experience with IT Governance
- Positive attitude, strong communication (verbal and written) & interpersonal skills
- Team player and able to create and work in a collaborative environment
- Ability to influence stakeholders across all levels, including teams outside of shared services and solutions
- Act as a trusted advisor for the customer by having a holistic view of the different alternatives that would provide a solution to the customer/s
- Ability to discuss technical topics in business terms, including but not limited to give presentations to an audience with different level of technological maturity
- Ability to think outside of the box and be innovative by keeping abreast of new trends, identifying opportunities to bring in change for business benefit
- Fluent written and spoken English (additionally, German would be nice to have)
- Global, critical, innovative thinking with good presentation skills
- Stakeholder influencing and technology governance
- Needs strong knowledge of QA & Testing Practices and understanding of quality management and development methodologies (SDLC) is highly valuated
- HP ALM and other Test management tools
- Agile Tools (TFS, JIRA, etc)
- Testing automation tools (UFT, QTPro, ..) would be highly valuated
- Analyze and custom SQL, .NET and J2EE solutions
- To support your work-life balance, we have adopted a flexible working model.
- Option to work abroad up to 25 days yearly.
- Over 300 euros to set up your home office and additional monthly home office allowance.
- Wide range of internal and external trainings, including English, German and Spanish classes depending on the needs.
- Ticket restaurant and Health Insurance with the flexibility to exchange it for other benefits.
- Life and accident insurance.
- Collective Life retirement Plan
- 2000 referral bonus if you bring other talented people like you to the company.
- Special banking and insurance conditions plus Exclusive Employees discounts
- Functional diversity benefits
- Stock options and mortgage benefits.
Join us as we constantly explore new ways to .
- Location(s): ES - Barcelona
- Remote working: Hybrid
- Schedule: Full Time
- Recruiter name: Laura Santamaría Rodríguez