Programme Test Manager

Bristol, England; Milton Keynes, England

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Job ID 00000366455 Date posted 03/13/2023 Location Bristol, England; Milton Keynes, England Company

Job Description

At Boeing, we innovate and collaborate to make the world a better place. From the seabed to outer space, you can contribute to work that matters with a company where diversity, equity and inclusion are shared values. We’re committed to fostering an environment for every teammate that’s welcoming, respectful and inclusive, with great opportunity for professional growth. Find your future with us.

We are looking for a Digital Services Test Manager to lead, deliver and enhance the software test capability into multiple Boeing Defence UK programmes where you’ll be challenged with modernising and transforming applications and services for our customer programmes in the UK.

You’ll be reporting to the Senior Digital Services Manager, working within the Digital Services and Analytics organisation to lead software test activity across multiple Boeing Defence UK programmes.

Responsibilities

This is an excellent opportunity for a dynamic and ambitious Programme Test Manager to drive improvements in the team, by delivering projects on time, cost and quality whilst adhering to SLA’s.

Following defined Boeing processes and liaising with both internal and external customers, alongside technical experts to develop a robust test strategy across the organisation and implement it through daily team management.
Responsibilities include the line management of circa 20+ individuals, including team leads, test analysts and additional contractor resources, to work collaboratively within an integrated customer and supplier team to jointly deliver an end-to-end test service, across corrective, adaptive and transformational change, ensuring that appropriate governance is applied across all programmes.
You’ll possesses a proven track of establishing and delivering on strategy promises and developing and managing high performing teams. You will be expected to maintain the support test capability and drive a culture of automation and agile working practices.
You will be proactive, highly flexible and someone that thrives in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, ensuring that resources are managed to meet challenging business goals and objectives, while remaining sensitive to employee needs, team dynamics and internal stakeholders.
It is essential that you are comfortable and confident representing the department and Boeing to clients and partner organisations, as well as influencing internal colleagues at all levels.
Your responsibilities will require some travel within the UK and occasionally may require overseas travel.

Key Activities:

Working as part of the leadership team supporting the execution of overall functional strategy.
Overall management of the test team and its budget responsibilities
Managing a diverse test team
Driving automation and performance test practices within the test team
Managing SLA’s, OLA’s and KPI’s.
Maintaining the highest level of customer support for the customer base through proactive management and implementation of continuous improvement initiatives.
Manage and coach support staff, to help maximise their potential, and establish Personal Development Plans and Skills Plans for the team.
Provide a point of escalation of staff, customers and internal teams with the area of accountability.
Establish close working relationships with the other departments within Digital Services and Analytics team and develop proactive business partnerships with service recipients (including conducting regular Service Reviews).
Provide leadership to the support team by demonstrating good technical knowledge and management capabilities, and by maintaining a positive attitude at all times.
Communication with stakeholders regarding service provision and outages.

Education and Experience:

Relevant and suitable qualification in a related field i.e. ISTQB qualified.
Previous background leading a test department or large test programmes.
Experience developing AGILE teams working towards a dev-ops target model.
Police Vetting and SC clearance or ability and willingness to obtain relevant clearance.
Excellent team management skills of staff and an ability to drive quality improvements within the Service Catalogue.

Desirable

Relevant Defence and/or Engineering sector experience.
Supporting Classified environments to JSP/Home Office Standards.
Experience of working within a large multinational organization within a matrix management structure.

All information provided will be checked and may be verified.

Please apply asap for this role as recruitment may commence before the end date.

Important information regarding this requisition: This requisition is for a locally hired position in the UK. CANDIDATES MUST HAVE CURRENT LEGAL AUTHORIZATION TO WORK IMMEDIATELY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. BOEING WILL NOT ATTEMPT TO OBTAIN IMMIGRATION AND LABOR SPONSORSHIP FOR ANY APPLICANTS. Benefits and pay are determined at the local level and are not part of Boeing U.S. based payroll.

PLEASE NOTE: The successful candidate will be expected to undergo a SECURITY CHECK/CLEARANCE

Export Control Requirements: Not an export control position

Equal Opportunity Employer:

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not accept unlawful discrimination in our recruitment or employment practices on any grounds including but not limited to; color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military and veteran status, or other characteristics covered by applicable law.

We have teams in more than 65 countries, and each person plays a role in helping us become one of the world’s most innovative, diverse and inclusive companies. Applicants are encouraged to share with our recruitment team any accommodations required during the recruitment process.