Test Manager

About Admiral Money

Admiral Money is an exciting, new division of Admiral Group. We have the freedom and innovation of a small start up with the security of a large parent company, Admiral. 

The journey started when we launched unsecured personal loans in June 2017. We went on to be the first direct to consumer car finance provider in December 2017. Since then, we have gone from strength to strength and have some exciting plans for the future.

We’re looking for people who are keen to learn, excited about getting stuck in and are ready for a challenge to help us to achieve our aim of creating a special lending business for our customers.

Role Overview

As a Test Manager within Admiral Money, your role will be to manage the people in your testing team, equipping them with the skills, tools, and standard approaches to deliver functional excellence, and ensuring that they are focused on delivering value to the business.

The Test Manager takes responsibility for the line management of testers within the team, in a mixed hands on / people management role. (Typically split around 50/50.)

You will report to the Head of Technology and Strategy, and will be an active contributor to the setting of the overall test strategy, and assist in the management of workstreams throughout the technology delivery process.

Responsibilities

Technical

• Work with test team to peer review code changes, test cases/bugs, coach and mentor, ensuring best practice, processes and standards are adhered to as per the test strategy.
• Analyse requirements to plan and execute comprehensive, thorough, and effective test plans to carry out automated functional and regression testing of web applications.
• Work with the development team and non-technical stakeholders at every stage of the SDLC to ensure functionality that is delivered into the live environment is of high quality.
• Collaborate with test analysts to ensure automated test suites are up to date and are in line with current functionality and ensure that existing automated tests are maintained.
• Assist in providing test leadership within department in an Agile working environment using Scrum/Kanban/Agile methodologies.
• Work closely with other members of the Test Management, and Engineering management teams to ensure alignment in processes / direction.
• Communicate with product owners and developers to ensure any defects found are catalogued and dealt with, in accordance with best practices.

People

• Recruitment, development and retention of the testing team members.
• Managing testers; including pay reviews, performance reviews, one to ones, objective setting and career development (including PDPs and training plans). 
• Coaching and mentoring, to help grow the technical and personal skills of all team members.
• Maintaining and enhancing the inclusive environment, aligned with Admiral’s core values.
• Manage squad resourcing to assist the most effective delivery of change.
• Perform other related duties.

Key Competencies

• Experience of testing complex technical projects through to completion, resulting in delivery of robust and high-quality applications.
• Experience of developing and maintaining robust test frameworks using Cypress, JavaScript, Python and API for both new and existing products.
• Resilient attitude in pushing the test perspective within a team and ability to raise issues within the team and beyond to drive change through persuasion and consensus.
• In-depth knowledge across a range of testing methodologies.
• Self-motivated, reliable and determined team player.
• Flexible and able to adapt to new processes and requirements in a dynamic environment.
• Able to plan and manage own workload, delivering results within agreed deadlines.
• Strong, clear and concise written and verbal communication skills. Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical people as and when required.

Desirable Technologies/Experience

It would be beneficial for the desired candidate to have experience of testing complex IT projects through to completion, resulting in delivery of robust and high-quality applications using best practices. Strong capabilities and proven experience of building and maintain automation testing frameworks including some of the following technologies:

• Previous line management experience
• Use of automation frameworks such as Selenium / Cypress
• Experience with BDD (Gherkin, Behave)
• Postman
• Experience of test management tool Xray
• Experience of build pipelines using common CI/CD tools (e.g., GIT and GitLab)
• Experience of cross browser/device testing through tools such as Browserstack
• Experience in using tracking tools such as Jira

Salary, Benefits and Work-Life Balance

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we’re consistently voted one of the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to Work For in the UK.

All colleagues will receive 33 days holiday (including banks holidays) when they join us, and this will increase with length of service, up to a maximum of 38 days (including banks holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to five days of annual leave in addition to your allocation.

You can also view some of our other key benefits here.

Our Commitment to You

At Admiral, we are committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. Admiral is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.

All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration.

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