Test Manager
Listing reference: woolw_001321
Listing status: Online
Apply by: 18 September 2025
Position summary
Industry: FMCG & Supply Management
Job category: FMCG, Retail, Wholesale and Supply Chain
Location: Western Cape
Contract: Permanent
Remuneration: Market Related
EE position: No
Introduction
Overall responsibility for the success of Quality Assurance, through ensuring quality planning, resource planning, resolution and management of issues.
Job description
- Provide input into business area initiatives and operating plans.
- Defines and obtains approval for the Test Strategy and Master Test Plan
- Establishes Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and the Management Information Reporting (MIR) format for weekly tracking of test activities / deliverables
- Participating in the Change Approval Board (CAB)
- Provides thought leadership (operational & tactical focus) in area of responsibility
- Attend weekly meetings on projects and provide input from the Tester’s perspective
- Ensures quality performance with regards to testing processes and procedures
- Performs quality checks with Test Lead and Test Team
- Provide & Reviews weekly status reports and takes necessary actions
- Escalates testing team issues to the project manager
- Escalate non performances issues to QA Manager
- Estimates testing activities and schedules
- Enforces the adherence to the company quality processes and procedures
- Ensures the overall success of the test cycles by driving the completeness and schedule of Quality Assurance
- Applies effective implementation of resources and quality assurance
- Drive Quality Assurance across domains, functional areas, or projects as required
- Drives optimal allocation and utilization of resources
- Drives continual process improvement
- Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders
- Coordinate relevant meetings and communicate the testing status to stakeholders
- Inter-project / group co-ordination between various departments
- Provides consultancy services where required
- Responsible for clear and effective communication between team and business
- Coordinate and conduct UAT with business
- Ensure teams produce high quality performance
- Continuous monitoring and mentoring of testing team members
- Identify and drive skills development needs to QA team
Minimum requirements
JOB REQUIREMENTS
- Relevant 3-year IT tertiary or NQF aligned qualification
- Post IT Graduate Qualification advantageous
- 5-8 years’ experience in a Test Lead or Test Management Role
- ISEB / ISTQB Advance Test Manager certification required
- ISTQB Expert Test Manager Certification advantageous
- Experience in defining and executing organization Test Policy and Test Strategy
- Experience in Test Planning, Test Reporting, Progress Monitoring and Quality Gates measurement
- Other work-related info e.g. shift work
- Solid Experience in working with OpenText ALM (Formally known as Quality Centre)
- Test Plan Module
- Test Lab Module
- Defect Management Module
ADDITIONAL CRITERIA
- Desirable or preferred criteria which would be advantageous and assist in distinguishing between the candidates once the job requirements have been met.
