Nerimnet Quality Assurance Manager

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Who Speclialist Work With Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Project Team, NERIMNET Project Manager (ISS Develop Networks Acquisition) and other key stakeholders in Corsham, Northwood & London What Specialists Work On Activities: • Maintain the Authority ITEAP. • Define, deliver and implement Authority’s Test Strategy (TS), Test Plan (TP) • Assure Supplier’s Test Policy, TS, Release TP; • Provide bid evaluation input / subject matter expertise in negotiations • Define and build QA team, working with business stakeholders to recruit expertise according to Authority TS; • Work with stakeholders to define Authority non-live test environments; • Produce reports on Authority testing outcomes and progress; • Review, assure and agree Supplier testing outcome reports • Report weekly to PM, attend project meetings as required. Where the Work Takes Place London SW1 with occasional travel to MOD Corsham, Wiltshire Early Market Engagement The Project is procuring a Nuclear Emergency Radiological Information and Monitoring Network (NERIMNET) together with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy as a replacement Information Management System for existing capabilities. Assessment of the market has enabled the capability to be procured in four procurements: (1) Application Development, (2) Application Management & Support, (3) Application Hosting and (4) Network Connectivity. Working Arrangements 3 Days per week, increasing to 5 Days a week from July 17 to Dec 17 Work Location London SW1 with occasional travel to MOD Corsham, Wiltshire Security Clearance Individuals must hold valid SC clearance Additional T&Cs None Skills & Experience At least 5 Years of experience working as a QA Manager or Test Manager on agile application delivery projects with whole life cost valued £50M or more 22% Demonstrable delivery/execution of test strategies/plans with measurable outcomes contributing to achieving delivery to time/budget of complex business applications/software systems, from unit testing through to operational acceptance/performance and automation testing 22% Has experience in creating test capability for a business project by building the appropriate team and leading them through the project lifecycle 16% Has experience of working on at least one project where they have built testing capability within an organisation as a customer procuring a business application from a supplier 14% Has experience in coordinating testing across multiple suppliers 10% Nice to Haves Has experience working as a QA Manager or Test manager on projects working to the Government Digital Service Design Manual- 6% Previous experience in Government business application delivery- 5% Previous experience working on safety critical systems or systems deemed to be critical national infrastructure- 5% No. of Specialists to Evaluate 5 Cultural Fit Criteria Work as a team with our organisations and other suppliers Transparent and collaborative when making decisions Share and transfer knowledge and experience with other team members Assessment Method Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 60% Cultural fit 10% Price 30% Questions from Suppliers Budget range £650.00