Programme Test Lead

**Programme Test Lead - Permanent
- Legal & General via Resource Solutions - London (hybrid working)**

We have an exciting opportunity for a **Programme Test Lead**to Join Resource Solutions as a Workforce Consultant. As an Employed Workforce Consultant you will benefit from permanent employment with Resource Solutions, and will be deployedon an interim or project basis with Legal & General for an initial duration. In return we will provide you with opportunity to develop your skills with ongoing training and professional accreditations.

**About the Opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity to join one L&G’s largest European investment management businesses. LGIM manages Fixed Income, Equity, Multi-Asset, Liability Driven Investment, Property and Alternative Solutions on behalf of its clients. Located acrossthe globe our clients include institutional pension funds, financial institutions, local authorities and sovereign wealth funds. In order to meet the complex and evolving investment needs of our client, we focus on remaining at the forefront of investmentproduct innovation and maintaining our reputation as experts across all asset classes.

**Job Summary
Key aspects of the role will involve dealing with senior stakeholders across the LGIM business but also extensively with third party service providers.

You will interact with a wide range of stakeholders across the STOM Transformation Programme, Technology and the business, so it is essential they possess excellent verbal, collaborative, professional and supportive styles and communication skills

**Principal Responsibilities**:

- Design and implement a Front to Back testing capability / service to meet the needs of the STOM transformation programme
- Document, publish, agree (via workstream and programme approvals) and maintain the STOM Programme Testing Strategy for all phases of the programme which includes testing objectives, coverage, evidence capture / storage, sign-off criteria, defect ratings,defect priority, test scheduling, exit criteria and environment and testing data management
- Work with business workstreams collaboratively to help define and document their testing requirements including Testing Briefs, Testing Scenarios, Test Scripts, Run Books and testing data requirements
- Work with the STOM Technology Testing & Environments lead to co-ordinate testing plans, programme build delivery, testing data requirements and resource planning
- Define and implement specific test plans to facilitate testing for multiple programme workstreams
- Define and implement a non-functional test plan to ensure capacity, scalability and business continuity targets can be met and sustained
- Build a testing team capable of coping with significant testing demand across a wide range of internal and external supplier testing activity
- Execute, monitor, track and report individual test cases specific to functional testing
- Support and facilitate, where required, User Acceptance Testing with or on behalf of project teams, workstreams, users and suppliers
- Ensure projects adhere to LGIM’s Business Change Management Framework (BCMF)
- Ensure accurate and timely reporting to both LGIM Change Management Committees and project Steering Groups
- Manage relationships with all stakeholders, including representatives from LGIM’s Compliance team, LGIM’s Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity function, Technology, project teams and external suppliers
- Run regular Sub-Working Group meetings, ensuring all actions are being appropriately progressed
- Collaborating with other team members ensuring methodologies and standards are met in order to continuously deliver change effectively
- Understanding the importance of BCP / DR as it relates to the programme solution and future operational behaviours

**Experience**
- Proven track record of personally leading successful Testing services for large transformation programmes in an Investment Management environment
- Experience of participating in large transformation programmes as a critical service provider (Testing)
- Experience of configuring, managing and maintaining testing environment integrity in a large and complex transformation programme
- Experience of managing and scheduling testing activity in a large complex transformation programme
- Strong leadership, collaboration and matrix management skills
- Structured and disciplined approach to testing and environment management
- Extensive experience in Financial Services, especially Investment Management
- Experience of working in an Agile / Scrum development environment

**Highly Desirable**:

- Experience of Middle Office migration with State Street
- Experience of testing Charles River Investment Management Solution (CRIMS)
- Experience of providing testing services for an OMS and/or Middle Office migration
- Experience in Jira, Xray and Excel