Test Manager – Azure

Candidate Description

With over a decade steering complex enterprise testing initiatives, this professional excels in delivering quality outcomes across Dynamics 365, Oracle, Salesforce and modern Azure-based data platforms. They bring deep HR, payroll and finance domain knowledge garnered through high-profile assignments at a Healthcare Organization, a Consulting Firm and a Financial Services Company, combined with a proven ability to uplift test maturity in multi-vendor landscapes. Adept communication and disciplined governance underpin their success in aligning diverse stakeholders and safeguarding critical business processes.

Demonstrable technical strength spans test automation, performance engineering and CI/CD enablement, showcased through frameworks built with Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Postman and Azure DevOps pipelines. Key achievements include a 40% regression reduction during a Healthcare Organization's mobility rollout, a 60% regression cycle cut for Consulting Firm clients via automation-backed governance, and accelerated release cadences for a Government Tax Office and a Telecommunications Company. Their toolkit covers data validation on Azure Data Lakehouse, Databricks and Snowflake, robust API and security testing, and performance tuning with LoadRunner and JMeter, all executed within Agile and risk-based delivery models.

Blending strategic leadership with hands-on capability, they have led distributed teams, mentored business testers and orchestrated defect triage to ensure confident, disruption-free cut-overs. Comfortable navigating government, financial services, retail, healthcare and telecommunications sectors, this individual adapts quickly to new domains while maintaining stringent quality standards. Their holistic perspective, underpinned by ISTQB certification and Oracle data-warehousing credentials, positions them as a versatile Test Manager ready to drive value and reliability in large-scale transformation programmes.