13082 - Oracle Fusion Test Lead - People & Money

University of Edinburgh; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent educational institution in Edinburgh is seeking a People & Money Test Lead. You will own the testing of functionality, ensuring deliverables meet high standards, and lead test teams. The ideal candidate will have significant ERP testing experience, strong people management skills, and excellent communication abilities. This full-time, open-ended role offers a salary ranging from £50,253 to £61,759 per annum.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable testing experience with ERP systems, especially in Finance & HR.
• Strong leadership skills in managing test teams.
• Experience in all test phases: functional, non-functional, system, integration, and user acceptance testing.

Responsibilities

• Own testing of People & Money functionality.
• Ensure testing deliverables are completed to a high standard.
• Develop test plans and manage test execution.

Skills

Testing experience with Oracle or similar ERP systems

People management skills

Functional and non-functional testing

Communication skills

Test and defect management tools (TestRail, JIRA)

Job description

Overview

Grade UE08: £50,253 –£ 61,759 per annum

ISG / Applications / People and Money Service

Full-time: 35 hours per week

Open-ended (permanent)

What the job involves

The People & Money Test Lead owns the testing of People & Money functionality. They are responsible for ensuring all testing deliverables are completed to the highest standard and delivered on time. The People & Money Test Lead is responsible for test quality & test advocacy, resource planning & management, and resolution of issues that impede the testing effort and final delivery. The post holder will assume overall responsibility for strategy, planning, execution, reporting, defect management, and test support.

The People & Money Test Lead develops test plans and manages the planning and coordination of test execution by business users as part of regression testing and testing of new functionality, coaching business users in good test practice and facilitating their successful execution of the test plan.

The People & Money Test Lead owns the relationship with any testing as a service (TaaS) relationship established with external partners. Planning testing, monitoring progress, facilitating discussions between the University and the supplier on this topic and holding suppliers to account.

A bit about you

Significant, demonstrable testing experience with Oracle or similar ERP systems and particularly in Finance & HR processes.

Strong people management skills including experience of leading test teams.

Experience of all test phases: functional, non-functional, system, integration and user acceptance testing.

Communication skills are critical for this role – colleagues should be able to communicate with a range of stakeholders: both inside the University and in external organisations; with technical colleagues and colleagues in business teams; and with colleagues at all levels of the University.

Experience of test and defect management tools including TestRail and JIRA.