E2E Testing Trail Lead 4

This role will have high visibility within Sky: you will be working with all parts of the organisation as you will be involved in end-to-end delivery for Sky’s largest and most exciting new launches.

It is a challenging and rewarding role, and the successful candidate will need to be self-motivated and resilient.

-          Pragmatic and delivery-oriented mindset, with a track record of having led and facilitated end-to-end test & trials on very large cross-enterprise initiatives within the following domains: Mobile Core, Broadband Core & Access Networks, IP-based Telephony, TV, Streaming, OTT, Business Communications

-          Trial management experience, having planned and implement technical trials: define & verify trial scenarios, co-ordinate technology teams, manage trialists & feedback mechanisms, manage defects & retesting, provide concise programme updates, collate reports, perform root cause analysis.

-          Technical acumen: Taken ownership for the progression and project management of releases, test cases and defect fixes that have dependencies across multiple software, hardware and network engineering delivery teams.

-          Comfortable working in an incremental delivery methodology, defining risk-based test/trial plans for overall programme and for each programme increment

-          Excellent testing, UAT, project management and stakeholder management skills.

-          Confident presentation skills to large audiences of varying seniority and be able to get your message across clearly and succinctly

Candidate for this role is expected to work 12:00-20:00 IST to support the team in the United Kingdom and be available for trialists during the standard working hours.

Technical Skill set

-          E2E trial with multiple components across network, OSS and BSS systems  

-          Define E2E test and trial approaches

-          Implementing trial inc. release & deployment, trialist management, defect management, project mgmt.

-          Delivering UAT test phases

-          Stakeholder management

-          Management of defects, from raising to deploying into the live environment

-          Significant experience of managing E2E trials and testing one or more of:

·         Broadband

·         Mobile networks

·         Voice (over IP)

·         Business Communications

·         TV

·         Streaming/OTT

-          Project management expertise

-          Executive presence

-          Technical, Operations & Business Stakeholder management

-          Release management

-          Change and configuration management

-          Defect management