Overview

You will direct and manage the full payroll project-life cycle and set standards for assignments and applications. You will be responsible for the delivery of the defined work packages to the client, provide effective management to teams and give guidance to key business users.

Responsibilities

Develop strategies and directs teams with diverse scope with payroll programmes and projects.
Ensure that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets, are signed off
Use project planning tools and participate in the identification of and planning for future resource needs.
Responsible for overall test plan design and processes, applying, articulating and constructing business specific end to end scenarios, define standards for development of test scripts, deployment and reuse.
Specify the test environment for whole life-cycle testing and ensure it reflects business requirements for execution
Consult with key business stakeholders to ensure application design is optimised for testability
Allocate and co-ordinate test schedules, work and resource plans; managing progress of all activities against the plan, managing own deliverables and that of others to meet delivery deadlines
Provide quality assurance evaluation estimates on various projects, including the ability to execute vision, goals and direction of a team/teams.
Diagnose problems and probes underlying issues to generate multiple potential solutions.
Can proactively anticipate and prevent problems, facilitate buy-in and guides implementation of corrective and/or preventive actions for complex issues
Creates quality assurance procedures and user instructions to ensure a reusable process and tools approach
Define and implement quality process improvements and metrics focused on defect prevention.
Advise on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects or release level
Input into proof of concept exercises and assist sales with pre-sales collateral

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
ISTQB Adv. TM
Additional course or certification in Quality Assurance
Project Management qualification

Experience

Experience delivering payroll project is essential to this role
Experience of Testing Payroll implementations (Oracle, Irish Payroll, Large payrolls)
Experience of Testing Payroll and HR integration (Oracle)
Experience of Testing Payroll and timeclock integration
Excellent client-facing skills
People management skills - introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other, encouraging mentoring and the transfer of knowledge by designing and delivering learning interventions
Teamwork and emotional intelligence
Good self-management – continuous performance is both a goal and a mind-set
Has an innovative approach – a bold thinker and doer, matching creativity with vigilance
High value on openness and transparency
Excellent communication and presentations skills
Experience of introducing new concepts or strategies that significantly improve or revise the way business is done through to implementation.

Benefits

At Expleo, we are committed to providing a competitive salary and substantial benefits offering with unique wellbeing, financial and employee recognition programmes.

We pride ourselves on our diverse and inclusive culture and offer a variety of family friendly policies and enhanced leave to help you achieve a healthy work life balance.

By providing significant learning and development opportunities, we encourage individual growth and success throughout your career with us.

Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more!
Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and question the status quo.

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”.

At Expleo, we understand that many people experience impostor syndrome throughout their lifetime, please do not let this discourage you from applying for this role. Our Talent Acquisition Team welcomes all CV’s and will consider your application in line with the values, requirements and role competencies.

QA Manager - Payroll Experience

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