Highly motivated individual with proven experience in managing the delivery of automation across all phases of software testing, with expert knowledge of testing practices, technologies, patterns, and techniques.
You are driven to keep on top of the latest developments in new technologies and are always on the lookout for “what’s new” and drawing on best practices from within and outside the industry.
Demonstrable experience of developing automation frameworks. You can plan and drive scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for large, complex automated testing initiatives.
You are able to maintain a balance between cutting edge technology or methodology while upholding the correct level of stability to protect the Production services.
You are an advocate for continuous improvements who seeks opportunities and delivers quality outcomes and helping to contribute to wider Engineering and overarching CIDO Strategy and Goals and have a true passion for knowledge sharing and developing others.
You love being responsible for POCs, R&D, and maximising value, and managing multiple projects at once.
You are passionate about ensuring the business delivers a great customer service and experience. Seeking to understand how decisions impact the end user and asking question to gain insight into the customer perspective and experience.
You can negotiate with stakeholders to manage competing priorities and conflicts.
Highly self-aware, emotionally intelligent, and intellectually curious you understand your impact on others and take time to understand all colleagues and help them to operate at their best, challenging in a positive and constructive way to drive the best outcomes.
You are a great communicator, able to build and foster relationships at all stakeholder levels, quickly building trust and rapport with your collaborators, whether internal or external.
An authentic ‘servant-leader’ who takes responsibility for ensuring the team’s success ahead of your own needs. You empower others to make decisions that lead to great outcomes.
Key Requirements:
- Solid understanding and proven experience of owning the implementation of a number of automation test initiatives running concurrently.
- A demonstrable track record of increasing the usage of automation tooling and testing within a SAFe agile and DevOps environment.
- Vast knowledge of automation testing techniques to cover every case for automation testing, verification, and validation techniques.
- Proven experience developing automation frameworks from scratch.
- Experience working with test tools, processes, approaches, and techniques within a diverse test practice.
- Must have good analytical skills and proven experience in analysing and writing automation scripts for complex business rules and rules engines.
- Must have proven experience leading a large multi-location team of test automation developers.
- Excellent senior stakeholder management (experience in working, managing, and governing of partner / 3rd party Testing and distributed teams).
- A proven background in test practice innovation, implementing new concepts, tools, and processes to gain efficiencies with high quality outcomes.
- Experience in defining quality metrics and the creation of high-quality communications / reporting.
- Experience of Microsoft applications and other technologies / programming languages including but not limited to: SQL, .Net, Java, Oracle (PL/SQL) and Unix.