Testing Manager

Manulife Japan is looking to fill the role of Test Manager (Bi-lingual). Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.

Responsibilities

Leadership:

•Join hands with test manager in initial estimates of the testing effort needed for new developments and functional enhancements.

•Participate in daily stand-up meetings, defect triage calls

•Responsible for working with different teams for defect management

•Monitor, measure, control, and report to management on Test progress, product quality, Test results and Test Completion.

•To provide leadership and guidance to the test team on best practice, mentoring and supporting development of team members with training and growth plans.

•Manage resources effectively to ensure utilisation is maximised, aligned to plan, budget and to timeframes.

•Identify slippage and develop strategies to recover and will own and resolve issues around the technical solution delivered into the business test environment

•  Ensure that all test phases have appropriate entry / exit criteria and for monitoring achievement of these criteria and for obtaining sign-off against these prior to Go Live

•  Implement a well-structured approach to test defect management and incident reporting

•  Track and prepare the report of testing activities like test testing results, test case coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance baselines etc.

Testing

•To define, design and deliver all testing work, including Functional Testing, System Integration Testing, Regression, and support User Acceptance Testing (undertaken by subject matter experts situated within the business).

•Document queries and defects and provide adequate data to allow rapid resolution.

•To review testing requirement for change requests, assessing the impact on test plans and schedules.

•  Improve and maintain an automation framework.

•  Creation of both manual and automated test scripts

•  Ensure configuration management of all Testware artefacts produced and traceability of the tests to the test basis.

•  Drive standards and best practices in QA and Testing, champion the adoption of continuous quality improvement through automation.

•  Identify Test Automation opportunities, plan the effort, select the tools and ensure training to team.

Knowledge and experience

Essential

•Previous hands-on experience as a Test Manager working with developers, product specialists, Business Analysts, Project Managers, testers, and business stakeholders.

•Broad knowledge of software development lifecycle(waterfall/agile) Cloud technologies, functional and non-functional test methodologies.

• Deep knowledge of test automation framework

• Knowledge and experience in Performance testing, API test and cross browser testing

•Relevant and demonstrable experience of managing relationship with business and external stakeholders

•A proven track record in delivering on time

•Test management and defect management tools

Desirable

•An understanding of Insurance Domain

Certifications (Desired and not mandatory)

•  ISTQB, PMP, QAI, 9001, ISO, HP, CAPM, SILK, ALM

Working Hours:

•Standard Working Hours: 9:00am - 6:00pm (Include 1 hour break)

Benefits:

•Social Insurance (Health Insurance, Employees' Pension, Unemployment Insurance, Worker's Accident Insurance), Benefit One, Training system (include Japanese lesson / English lesson), Childcare Leave/Family care Leave, Baby-sitter support program, wiwiw System (Support program for those who take Childcare Leave), Retirement Pension (only for Regular employee).

Holidays/Vacations:

•Saturdays and Sundays

•National Holidays

•  Year-end and

Language

•Fluent in Japanese & English

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us, visit https://www.manulife.com/en/about/our-story.html.

Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Manulife/John Hancock, we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law.

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