Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Reporting to the Engineering Director, as the Head of Requirements, Validation & Assurance you will be working with a multi-disciplined Engineering team to Deliver significant technology projects within Highways. Working through your direct team and indirect subject matter experts in the project and engineering community you will be responsible for creating, overseeing/undertaking appropriate governance to ensure that requirements are established (Requirements Mapping), validated (Test Strategy and execution), and assured (evidenced as meeting the customer requirements and applicable standards).
What you’ll do:
• Establish the process and systems for baselining requirement, and recording them
• Lead a community of SME’s to capture and input requirements to the systems
• Ensure inputted requirements have traceability to contractual requirements / obligations
• Manage Test Managers to develop an optimised Test Strategy
• Lead SME’s, Testers and Test Managers to successful testing of requirements
• Utilise automation of testing wherever possible to reduce resource burden and allow testing whilst we sleep
• Accountable for validation of collated artifacts as meeting success criteria of requirements and obtain customer approval within timeframes specified by the Programme
• Create an environment strategy to ensure that access to test environments is efficiently utilised without contention, and environments are in an appropriate configuration state for the testing to be an accurate reflection of the Live Operational Environment (LOE)
• Establish common automation and success criteria for testing, validating and assuring Requirements to be reused in BAU Release Management
• Design and Manage Defect Resolution Process
• Work with Programme Management team to ensure alignment across programmes, environment and resources
• Track Assurance Signoff to enable milestone payments
Who you are:
You are an established leader with experience of delivering assurance across complex technology change programmes, in highly assured environments.
Key Requirements:
• Minimum HND/BEng Degree level of education, or equivalent experience
• Computer literate, competent with MS Office suite, Word, Excel, etc
• Working knowledge of the quality standards and processes and regulatory requirements applicable to the designated discipline/business area.
• Customer focussed and able to deal with internal and external stakeholders.
• A passion for solving problems and providing workable solutions
• Strong analytical and reasoning skills with an ability to visualise processes and outcomes
• Significant experience of effective delivery of engineering and technical resources to deliver designated project requirements to time and within budgets
What we offer:
At Telent, we’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels valued, supported, and able to thrive. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and encourage diverse perspectives across our teams.
The additional benefits with this role:
· Car Allowance
· Private Healthcare
· 34 days holiday, including public holidays, plus the option to buy or sell days annually
· Company pension scheme
• A range of family friendly policies
• Occupational health support and wellbeing Portal
• Discounts on Cinema, Restaurants and Shopping with Telent Reward scheme.
We are guided by our values and behaviours:
Be Inclusive
Take Responsibility
Collaborate
Be Customer-focussed
Join us and help deliver critical infrastructure projects that make a real difference.
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
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