Senior Test & Release Manager

What You'll Do:

• Lead test planning, test strategy execution, and quality engineering activities across the TNI transformation portfolio.
• Define and govern release schedules, release readiness assessments, and production deployment activities.
• Coordinate end-to-end testing across business, architecture, engineering, DevOps, and operations teams.
• Oversee quality assurance for large-scale Inventory platform migrations, transformations, and system modernisation initiatives.
• Drive test automation, performance testing, and continuous testing practices within CI/CD pipelines using tools such as JMeter.
• Manage release governance processes, including risk identification, dependency management, change control, and stakeholder approvals.
• Validate inventory and graph data migrations, ensuring data quality, integrity, and reconciliation using Neo4j expertise.
• Monitor platform performance, stability, and operational health through observability and monitoring solutions such as New Relic.
• Partner with solution architects and engineering teams to review solution designs and ensure testability, scalability, and operational readiness.
• Lead production readiness reviews and ensure successful implementation of releases into live environments.
• Facilitate defect triage, issue resolution, root cause analysis, and remediation activities throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Provide leadership, mentoring, and direction to testing, release, and delivery teams across complex transformation programs.
• Engage regularly with business stakeholders to communicate delivery status, risks, quality metrics, and release outcomes.
• Maintain delivery documentation, governance artefacts, and reporting using Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft Copilot.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across testing, release management, quality assurance, and operational support processes.

About You:

• At least 5 years' experience as Senior Test and Release Manager
• Deep expertise in TNI, NNI, NDSD and OSS/BSS Inventory platforms and transformation initiatives
• Leadership of test strategy, quality engineering, release governance and production readiness for enterprise platforms
• Proven delivery of large-scale data migration and transformation programs
• Strong Neo4j expertise, including graph data modelling, migration and validation
• Hands-on JMeter performance engineering and CI/CD testing experience
• Expertise in New Relic monitoring, observability and operational support
• Experience in solution design, architecture reviews, APIs, microservices and platform optimisation
• Strong stakeholder management across business, architecture, engineering, DevOps and operations teams
• Proficient in Microsoft Copilot, Jira and Confluence for delivery governance and productivity
• Leadership of complex cross-functional transformation programs, including risk, dependency and release management