Head of Test

4 days ago


Sheffield, United Kingdom British Business Bank Full time

**Location**: Sheffield Or London

**Contract**: Permanent

**Hours**:Full time 37.5 hours per week/flexible days and/or hours (Mon-Fri)

**Salary: £55,000 - £64,250 depending upon experience**

**Benefits package**:

- 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata for part time),
- Up to 15% employer pension contribution,
- Discretionary Bonus Scheme,
- Flexible working, cycle to work scheme, healthcare cash plan and life assurance
- Paid voluntary day, maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave
- Benefits designed to suit your lifestyle - from discounts on retail and socialising, to health and wellbeing, travel, and technology...and plenty more

**THE ROLE**

We are currently recruiting for a new Head of Test to work within our existing Business IT Team.

The main responsibility of the role is to lead and manage a team of Test Managers, Senior Testers and Testers to ensure quality and consistency of testing across projects and programmes within British Business Bank.

You will be responsible for the standards, quality and technical approach taken by the Test team, ensuring it is in-line with the IT Strategy and that projects are delivered with minimum risk, on time, and on budget.

You will also be responsible for creating and maintaining a professional culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the Test team ensuring that the people in test roles have the appropriate skills, capability, and support to be effective intheir role as well as access to learning and development to help them progress.

To be considered for this role you must have previous experience managing testing departments or testing functions, managing large and complex activities and processes.

You will have a broad knowledge of the software development lifecycle, cloud technologies, test strategies and techniques along with knowledge and experience in test automation, performance testing, API testing and cross browser testing.

You must also have experience of working across programmes with a proven track record in delivering on time.

Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills are essential and experience of Automation in Selenium and BDD or an understanding of financial services would also be highly desirable.

To view the full job description please visit British Business Bank - Careers page

**ABOUT US**

The British Business Bank is a unique and exciting institution. Its mission is to make finance markets work better so smaller businesses across the UK can prosper and grow.

Established in 2014, it is a 100% government-owned economic development bank but independently managed.

To deliver its programmes, the Bank works through more than 200 delivery partners such as high street, digital, specialist and challenger banks, venture capital and private debt funds and fintech platforms.

Currently, we employ around 520 people, split between offices in Sheffield and London.



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