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You will champion QA leadership, craft robust testing strategies across multi-phase rollouts, and collaborate across 12+ squads in a hybrid delivery environment to ensure seamless, high-quality platform performance.\nThis is a 12 month, Daily Rate Contract role\nDay to day you will:\nDefine, socialise, and implement comprehensive end-to-end Test Strategies and Plans (SIT & UAT) across complex, multi-phase delivery teams.\nLead cross-functional collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Delivery squads to align on scope, test data, scenarios, and sign-offs.\nOversee test environment readiness, bookings, data refreshes, and sanity checks across integrated systems, ensuring business and technology teams and resources are engaged and aligned to the testing plan. \nDrive daily test execution standups, reporting, and structured defect triage to ensure swift resolution and retesting by the business development teams.\nIdentify and mitigate testing and quality risks to protect project delivery milestones and secure final business acceptance.\nSupport related program initiatives where needed, including the Data Migration stream.\nQualifications\nWhat you’ll bring:\nProven experience as a Test Manager leading full lifecycle QA from strategy formulation through to execution in large-scale enterprise environments.\nDeep expertise across functional, integration, and end-to-end testing, with familiarity in cloud migrations, on-premise integrations, and BigQuery.\nStrong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to bridge technical and business teams in agile and hybrid delivery setups.\nSharp analytical and problem-solving abilities, paired with pragmatic decision-making and strong risk-mitigation skills.\nPractical experience using tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Smartsheet, and Google Workspace.\nAdditional Information\nHow we work\nAt Nine, our flexible work options vary by role and team. 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