Description
Join Asda and play a key role in enabling high-quality delivery across our fast-paced retail business. We're looking for a passionate Quality Engineering Environments Manager to join our team and play a key role in delivering major business transformation programmes, including a significant SAP S/4HANA upgrade.
This is a strategic role focused on defining and shaping the organisation's approach to test environments across a complex technology landscape. You'll be responsible for ensuring environments are planned, coordinated and governed effectively, enabling successful programme delivery across multiple business and technology initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and deliver the test environment strategy across major transformation programmes.
- Establish and maintain effective governance, planning and coordination processes for test environments.
- Shape and support the development of a future environment landscape capable of supporting multiple programmes and business priorities.
- Coordinate environment requirements, dependencies and readiness activities across multiple teams and suppliers.
- Work closely with internal teams and third-party vendors to align environment requirements and priorities.
- Drive continuous improvement in test environment management practices and processes.
- Support the adoption of service virtualisation approaches to reduce system dependencies and increase flexibility.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance on environment-related challenges.
- Identify and mitigate environment-related risks, issues and constraints.
- Influence stakeholders at all levels to ensure successful programme delivery.
About You You'll have a strong background in test environments and programme delivery, with the ability to operate strategically whilst maintaining technical credibility.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Proven experience developing and implementing test environment strategies within large-scale programmes.
- Strong understanding of test environment management within complex, integrated technology landscapes.
- Experience coordinating multiple environments, systems, suppliers and delivery teams.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- The ability to balance long-term strategic thinking with practical delivery requirements.
- Experience identifying and mitigating environment-related risks and issues.
- Experience working across multiple applications, integrations and third-party platforms.
Desirable Skills & Experience
- Experience supporting ERP, digital or enterprise-wide transformation programmes.
- Exposure to SAP S/4HANA or similar large-scale technology implementations.
- Knowledge of service virtualisation concepts and tooling.
- Experience working within retail, supply chain or highly integrated enterprise environments.
Benefits
- Discretionary company bonus
- Company pension up to 7% matched
- Company Car allowance of £5,700
- 15% colleague discount in store and online
- Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
- Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
- Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.