Test Manager
ECS Recruitment Group Ltd
Overview
As Test Manager, you will lead end-to-end testing across a large telecoms transformation, ensuring quality and readiness through the delivery lifecycle. You will partner with project teams, business stakeholders and IT to drive cross-functional collaboration, manage risks, and provide clear progress visibility to programme leadership. The role focuses on UAT and Operational Readiness Testing to enable a smooth go-live. You will shape testing governance and assurance across multiple streams, supporting successful deployment and go-live readiness.
Responsibilities- Lead and coordinate testing across multiple programme workstreams
- Plan, execute and report on end-to-end testing activities
- Oversee User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Lead Operational Readiness Testing (ORT) for go-live preparedness
- Consolidate testing status, risks, issues and dependencies into programme reporting
- Coordinate Test Leads and stakeholders across Network, Digital and IT
- Ensure adequate test coverage across complex processes
- Support go-live readiness, cutover planning and deployment activities
- Provide governance, assurance and challenge across testing functions
- Proven experience as a Test Manager, Senior Test Manager or End-to-End Test Lead
- Strong telecommunications (Telco) background
- Experience across large-scale transformation, migration or platform programmes
- Understanding of either: Network testing and telecoms infrastructure, or Digital and IT testing environments
- Strong UAT and Operational Readiness Testing (ORT) experience
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience coordinating multiple teams and suppliers within complex delivery environments
- stakeholder management
- clear communication
- cross-functional collaboration
- end-to-end testing
- UAT
- ORT
Reference: WJ-747_30170782