Senior Test Manager - ERP

Company Description

Let’s create a more sociable future together

At Endeavour, we’re totally into what we do. With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, we love to bring people together. Together we share our passion for our products and industry; it’s what inspires us to dream big, and continue to create new experiences for our customers and teams across Australia. If you thrive on positive energy, we want to meet you!

Job Description

• Be uniquely you, come as you are
• Bring your passion and feel the energy 
• Flexible/ Hybrid working 
• 24 months - Fixed-term contract

The Senior Test Manager will be responsible for delivering all testing activities and services for our ERP transformation program, including the design and implementation of the test strategy. Reporting to the Head of Enterprise Testing, this role will be responsible for leading all test planning and execution phases of the program, as well as providing governance of vendor testing deliverables to ensure the highest quality software is delivered to production. Stakeholder management will be a key part of this role to ensure that business and technology are in alignment with the test strategy and expectations throughout all phases of the program.

As a key member of the Enterprise Testing Leadership team, you will also contribute to the future state testing capability, providing valuable input to continuous improvement initiatives such as test automation, continuous testing, quality metrics and Agile testing.

Sound good? Read on.

Here is a taster of what you can expect in this role:

• Strategy Development & Execution: Define and implement the test strategy for the program, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, quality assurance standards, and customer expectations.

• Vendor & Stakeholder Management: Work closely with external testing vendors, manage contracts, and ensure vendor-supplied solutions meet enterprise requirements. Maintain strong relationships with stakeholders in engineering/technology, operations, and business.

• Shift Left Testing: Drive the adoption of "shift-left" testing principles, ensuring that automation is integrated early in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for faster feedback and early defect detection.

• Governance & Best Practices: Establish governance for testing partners, create standards, guidelines, and best practices for testing across the organization, and ensure compliance across teams.

• Continuous Improvement: Champion continuous improvement in testing practices by evaluating emerging tools, processes and technologies, assessing their feasibility, and incorporating them into the testing ecosystem.

• Mentoring & Training: Provide guidance, mentorship, and training to team members, cultivating a culture of knowledge-sharing and growth.

• Reporting & Metrics: Define and track relevant metrics for test delivery, reporting progress to senior leadership, and using insights to refine strategies and improve test coverage and execution efficiency

Qualifications

Now let’s talk about you: 

Experience

• Experience managing test teams and programs of work

• Test Maturity Uplift: Expertise enhancing test practice and maturity through strategic improvements

• Methodologies: Strong background in both Waterfall and Agile, DevOps practices, and experience with Shift Left testing.

• Vendor Management: Proven experience managing external vendors and coordinating cross-functional teams.

• Experience with SAP/ERP: Exposure testing or leading testing of SAP/ERP projects

• Emerging Technologies: Familiarity with new trends and technologies in the testing domain, including artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and test-driven development (TDD).

The benefits are good too! 

• We offer flexible working in every sense
• An exclusive discount card for BWS, Dan Murphy’s, Woolworths, BIG W and other Endeavour Group brands, including our ALH pubs
• Monthly meeting-free days 
• Your health and wellbeing is your most important asset, and as one of our valued team members, it’s our first priority. You will have a range of free services to help you live well and support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing
• Endeavour Group is full of opportunities - use our dedicated learning and development options to grow an idea, yourself, and your career. This is just the start, so dream big.

At Endeavour, we value being a workplace where everyone’s welcome - if you meet a number of the requirements (and not all), we encourage you to apply.

Additional Information

We are together creators

With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, Endeavour Group is big on sociability. Together we create the moments that bring millions of people together. And together we have more fun, create more opportunities, and score a lot more goals. We’re serious about creating a safe, inclusive and fun place to rock up to where equal opportunity is key, and flexibility is part of how we roll.  

We’re all about creating a more sociable future - for our customers and each other. If this job excites you - and you’re close-enough on the requirements, reach out, we’d love to hear from you.

You can learn more about working with us on LinkedIn or at endeavourgroupcareers.com.au.

Our Talent Team and Hiring Leaders kindly request no unsolicited resumes or approaches from Recruitment Agencies. Endeavour Group is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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