Project Manager, ERP Process and Testing - Vancouver, Canada - Langara College

Langara College

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Vancouver, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Our employees exemplify Langara's values of excellence, collegiality, innovation and integrity. If you think this position fits your qualifications, we encourage you to apply

Langara College is located in Vancouver, B

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Exceptions to this will be clearly outlined in the event Langara College requires work (or positions to be based) to be performed outside BC or Canada.

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Job Title:
Project Manager, ERP Process and Testing

Employee Group:
Administrator

Employee Type:
Temporary (Fixed Term)

Start Date:
Monday, April

End Date (if applicable):
Tuesday, March

Job Description:

In January 2020, Langara College migrated its HR and Finance operations to a cloud-based Workday ERP platform.

Langara is moving into an exciting new phase of transforming its Student Information Systems (SIS) through a suite of solutions, including the Workday Student product.

The role of the Project Manager, ERP Process and Testing is to plan, execute, document, and finalize configuration set up, data and process testing according to strict project deadlines within the Student Information Systems (SIS) Program.

While this position facilitates the entire project development cycle, the focus of this role is to manage the project testing cycle including planning, execution and closing stages.

This includes allocating resources and coordinating the efforts of testers, team members, other departments' resources, and third-party contractors or consultants in order to deliver projects according to plan.

The Project Manager, ERP Process and Testing will also define testing scope and oversee quality control throughout the testing life cycle for various projects.

This role is customer-focused and will manage the project testing activities to embed best practices and to deliver value to the Langara Community.

This role oversees a team of Business Analysts and Testing Analysts within the project management workstream, and is responsible for developing test plans and schedules, assigning responsibilities, identifying resource needs, managing risks and issues, monitoring quality of deliverables, and ensuring usage of established project tools.

The Project Manager, ERP Process and Testing provides regular status reports and coordinates communication and dependencies between PMO, Technical, Functional and Organizational Change Management workstreams.

Qualifications Required:
Education & Experience

University degree in computing science, engineering, or related technology field.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred.
ISTQB Certification is preferred.
Experience in developing and communicating a comprehensive test strategy, test plans and test management approach to multiple test cycles across multiple projects in partnership with functional, technical, project work streams as well as implementation partners.
Excellent testing leadership experience in cloud implementation projects in a higher education environment preferred.
Eight (8) years of work experience as a Project Manager, leading projects in software development environments, including:
5+ years experience with project management software, such as Microsoft Project or similar tools
5+ years experience with spreadsheet tools such as Microsoft Excel and with diagram and flowcharting software such as Microsoft Visio.
Experience implementing ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solutions, ideally in a cloudbased environment.
Experience implementing COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf Software) packages.
Productivity tools such as Confluence, Jira, JAMA, SVN, SharePoint, Visio, BPM tools.
Demonstrated experience with agile and iterative software development methodologies.
Experience with all aspects of process development and execution.
Demonstrated experience in personnel management.
An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

Skills & Abilities

Effective presentation communication skills required; ability to clearly explain concepts to diverse audiences.
Persuasive, encouraging, and motivating.
Strong interpersonal skills.
Adept at conducting research into projectrelated issues and products.
Strong Customer Service and Quality Assurance mindset.
Ability to effectively communicate (written and verbal) in both highly technical and nontechnical environments with all levels of the organization.
Ability to direct complex technology projects, including developing proposals, setting budgets, project planning and implementation.
Ability to effectively lead and direct the work of others in a collegial setting.
Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with management, faculty, employees, students, facilities and security staff, vendors, other institutions, external agencies and/or the general pub