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Fractal's mission is to power every human decision in the enterprise and brings AI, engineering, and design to help the world's most admired Fortune 500® companies. 

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Fractal is a renowned brand that empowers global Fortune 100 companies by leveraging analytics and AI to revolutionize decision-making within enterprises. With a focus on Intelligence for Imagination, Fractal offers a range of advanced solutions and services. Their AI Innovation Center is at the forefront of cutting-edge capabilities, including Generative AI, Computer Vision for Image and Video Analytics, Machine Learning Operations, and Cognitive Automation. They also specialize in Conversational AI for Text Analytics and Responsible AI, ensuring ethical and accountable practices. Fractal's wide array of solutions caters to diverse functions such as Supply Chain, Finance Analytics, ESG, and Customer Genomics. They serve industries including Consumer Packaged Goods, Retail, Financial Services, Insurance, and Healthcare & Life Sciences. With products like Asper.ai, Crux Intelligence, Eugenie.ai, Flyfish.ai, Qure.ai, and Senseforth.ai, Fractal provides innovative solutions tailored to specific industry needs. Being a leader in Customer Analytics Service, Fractal has been recognized for its excellence and has received awards like Great Place to Work, USA. The brand continually strives to lead the AI revolution while maintaining a strong commitment to corporate social responsibility. Explore the world of Fractal and stay up-to-date with the latest insights on AI through their magazine, Ai:sight. Join their team of talented professionals as they create impactful solutions and shape the future of analytics and AI.

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## Company Mission

To reshape business through science and advanced data tools and uncomplicate decision-making, so human intelligence can be freed from the drudgery of monotonous work and committed to the pursuit of imagination and creative rewards.

## About Fractal

Fractal develops AI-driven tools and platforms for businesses, including a conversational AI platform called Senseforth, a revenue growth AI tool called Samya, AI algorithms for medical imaging named Qure, and an all-in-one data analytics platform called Crux Intelligence. The company develops its solutions to be flexible and applicable within a wide range of industries including consumer packaged goods, healthcare, financial services, and media.

Fractal has taken the smart approach of developing a suite of flexible AI tools that can tackle problems in many industries, as opposed to focusing on a specific problem or industry. This strategy has positioned the company well for continued growth and impact, reflecting its broad applicability and potential in the market.

**Company Size:** 1001+ employees

**Industry:** B2B, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, SaaS, Data Analysis

**Recent Growth:** 8% employee growth in 12 months

**Funding:** $685m total funding across 4 rounds

## Role

### Who you are

- Technical skills commensurate with defined experience
- Excellent interpersonal skills, both written and verbal
- Adherence to defined standards and ways of working
- Capability to manage and lead a team of systems analysts with varied experience
- Effective running of daily and weekly progress and governance meetings
- Provision of technical direction to team members
- Assurance of the quality of deliverables
- Experience in creating and managing a high-performing team
- Ability to advise and guide Business Analysts, technical and business SMEs through interactive/agile approaches
- An ability to advise and guide Application Delivery Managers and Solution Designers to ensure the proposed solution fits with the overall system design principles

### What the job involves

Fractal is seeking a Programme Lead Test Manager who is accountable for developing the strategy and managing delivery of all aspects of end to end Testing (functional, non-functional, SIT, end to end testing, OAT, UAT) across a complex portfolio of platforms or major projects, ensuring the offshore testing partners deliver against contractual commitments / base lined plans, departmental best practice and standards and the risk appetite of the stakeholders through the delivery of a signed-off risk based test strategy, test plans and test summary reports.

**Strategy:**
- Provide end-to-end testing best practice advice and guidance to programme / project lead, liaising with business stakeholders to ensure required resources in place to execute UAT testing
- To work with the Delivery leads and their teams to ensure offshore vendor testing capability and plans are sufficient to meet project time, cost and quality standards
- Maintain an understanding of industry trends in testing and ensure the best practice embedded in test strategies and plans
- Support the Head of Testing Services, ensuring continuous improvement within the testing function in order to help drive the strategic agenda

**Business Delivery:**
- Manage the overall test strategy, planning and co-ordination of all phases of testing
- Ensure the delivery of testing to agreed baselined time, cost and quality in adherence with departmental best practice, relevant, appropriate and agreed testing methods, standards and policies for both waterfall and agile methods of delivery
- Successfully manage the working relationship with the testing Vendor as required to fulfil all testing commitments and plans
- Operate as a testing SME and provide advice to determine the most appropriate testing strategies for projects or programmes
- Definition of Test Strategies, Plans and Approaches as required and in line with best practices
- Ensure the offshore test team is resourced to undertake the required test planning, specification, management, execution and reporting to meet agreed business and non-functional requirements within timescale and cost constraints
- Ensure accurate and timely reporting on testing progress in accordance with agreed project/department/release management timescales
- Regular QA of Vendor output ensuring adherence to testing policy and practices can be evidenced
- Overall responsibility for managing our test environment and data requirements to ensure compliance with any DLG set guidelines

**Capacity & Capability:**
- Build and maintain relationships with third party suppliers, managing immediate resource demands

**Risk and Control:**
- Ensure that Vendor can evidence traceability between requirements, test specification and test execution and adequate records of the test process and the quality of the test effort, with the production of a Test Summary Report
- Identify, own and manage the risks involved in running our business appropriate to my role, in line with DLG guidelines

**Stakeholder Management:**
- Communicate with senior stakeholders, providing explanations of the consequences of test results
- Day to day working with the Delivery Leads and their teams to ensure all testing deliverables are integrated and delivered in line with baselined project plans

**People Management:**
- Effectively managing Vendor through
- Ensures the assignment of work meets the skills of the resource and the needs of the organization
- Vendor demonstrates appropriate adherence to DLG policies and controls
- Effective communication that engages Vendor and encourages them to maximize their value add

**System Testing:**
- Ensure the delivered system functions meets the functional specification including integration, usability, verification, accuracy of all outputs etc

**Non-Functional Testing:**
- Ensure the system meets volume and performance requirements including soak, load, bottlenecks etc

### Key Qualifications

- Day-to-day management of a large programme of testing delivery
- Strong communication, leadership, ownership and accountability management
- Critical thinking to remove blockages
- Proactivity identifies and drives test delivery improvements in support of meeting programme milestones

### Work Arrangement

- 6 Month Fixed Term Contract
- 2-3 days a week in office
- London
- Senior and Expert level

### Salary

Salary not provided

Senior Manager | AI & Leadership Hiring | Fractal

Sakthi Kumar

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Senior Manager

Senior Manager Talent Acquisition - Analytics Hiring (AIML)

Programme Lead Test Manager, Fractal

Business Manager

Fractal is seeking a Programme Lead Test Manager for a 6-month fixed-term contract in London. The role involves developing and managing end-to-end testing strategies across complex projects, ensuring offshore partners meet commitments, and maintaining best practices. The position requires strong leadership, communication, and technical skills.

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