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Position Summary
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Project Manager to join our Chadderton based team. Providing support to the Senior Operations Delivery Manager, you will help to manage and schedule all business as usual and new projects. This role will be based at our Chadderton site – working pattern Mon – Fri – 35 hours. If you have a passion for innovation and fresh ways of working, then this is the role for you. This role will be based on-site five days a week initially, moving to four days on site and one day working from home.
The ideal candidate will have an agile mindset with an understanding of the software delivery process. You will understand what is required to ensure deliveries are on time and to a consistently high standard. You will be skilled at providing concise communication to all departments within the business. You will have a reasonable knowledge of all aspects of delivery from content, platform to production delivery and implementation of functionality within those platforms.
Key responsibilities:
Providing support to the Senior Operations Delivery Manager on the day to day running of projects and business requirements
Holding meetings with all relevant stakeholders to discuss priorities and weekly schedules
Managing content team roadmap
Reviewing solutions documents to ensure functionality and intended use is captured
Scheduling and reviewing test activities
Creating test strategies and testing schedules for all projects
Reviewing and signing-off test cases and test scripts
Managing issues in JIRA with VB (Video Bet) Projects Team (review, prioritise and assign issues, chasing fixes to challenging timescales)
Reporting, highlighting concerns with project progression/status
Responsible for liaising with Product Team and Marketing to manage asset delivery
Handover to Deployment required server settings/changes, functionality review and issue limitations
Where needed, supporting the testing of different products and updating of test documentation
Liaising with key stakeholders outside the Test Department, providing support and keeping them informed of delivery timescales
Line management responsibilities
Qualifications
Skills and experience
Excellent understanding of software testing processes and techniques, and the software development life cycle *essential*
Experience as a Test Lead on different projects, including defining scope of testing and managing day to day work of a group of testers *essential*
Excellent management and planning skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Able to prioritise work to meet project deadlines
Able to provide support when needed, and build strong working relationships
Able to work on own initiative with minimal supervision to deliver high quality work in a timely manner
Results driven, with great attention to detail, problem solving and analytical skills
PRINCE2 – desirable
ISO experience - desirable
What we can offer you?
Competitive salary and performance bonus
8% employer pension contributions
33 days' holiday (including bank holidays)
Paid leave to work on charitable projects
Access to Reward Hub, a reward platform offering shopping and lifestyle discounts/cashback
Employee Assistance Programme
Training, support and career development
Cycle to work scheme
*Please note we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role*
Light & Wonder are an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourage applications from all walks of life regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
If you are invited to an interview, please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, we can make to the recruitment process that will enable you to perform to the best of your ability.
