Job Description

Your Experience
A visionary forward thinker who views quality holistically and can drive a quality engineering ethos throughout the POD. Understanding industry trends around tools, methods, and practice - implementing where possible. You must be a team player who can work across many teams to establish shift left quality and test automation approach.
Things you will do:

• Implements and oversees the test automation approach (working with all squads within the POD) to deliver the Test Automation Strategy including CICD, nonfunctional testing - performance, security engineering,

compatibility, accessibility testing

• Drives out improvements and innovation around tooling, frameworks and approaches working on shift left first principles and the automation pyramid

• Able to work constructively with other POD leads and Squad leads to ensure the best value is being driven through the automation approach and that the approach is consistent with other PODs where beneficial

• Works with the POD leads and the business/POs to ensure there is a holistic and consistent approach to Quality (through RCA, metrics, code quality, (defect) stage containment) and ensures cross communication and

collaboration on QA best practices, risks and open issues across other PODs

• Leads and federates the overall test approach to the Squads - built-in quality, metrics, methods and tools

• Leads process improvement initiatives focus on Quality, Velocity and Efficiency (agreed across the POD) e.g closer alignment to business acceptance, operations etc

• Ensure consistency across all squads in line with POD strategy/maturity/priorities/global approach - undertaking quality reviews and deep dives to ensure there is a consistent approach

• Input into PI planning, and subsequent resourcing planning - including skills profiling and identify training requirements for POD members

• Identify supplier training requirements and feed into global KPI and supplier measures

• Provides timely reports with qualitative and quantitative analysis of test coverage, defect trends & leakage enabling key stakeholders (including Squad leaders) for timely course correction

• Define and design quality metrics and dashboard to enable the Pod lead & PO to frequently gauge the quality of the software

• Manage a team of Test Engineer leads and Test analysts

Mandatory Skills
'o Strong understanding of Test Engineering and Quality Assurance best practices, tools and policies

• The ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical colleagues in a cross-functional environment

• Proven track record of successfully delivering Quality software solutions

• Strong Leadership skills and a team player

• Experience or knowledge of working with Agile at Scale, Lean and Continuous Delivery approaches such as Continuous Integration, Test-Driven Development and Infrastructure as Code

• Experience in selenium tools and Configuring Selenium Test Environment (Ex: Eclipse IDE, Java, Selenium-C# etc...). Involvement in Test Environment Setup

• Familiar with Automation Framework Design and Implementation

• Understanding of CI/CD and DevOps practices

• Good communication skills