As the Quality Assurance & Testing Practice Lead, you will more specifically:
- Lead and grow the service with specific focus on expanding our capability around continuous testing, automation and DevOps disciplines.
- Lead, inspire and coach its members to grow the organisations capability.
- Support the development and delivery of cutting-edge business solutions to meet the needs of our clients.
- Lead and oversee the delivery of our most challenging and stretching quality assurance and testing assignments.
- Lead on the business development of Valcon’s consulting’s activity in the continuous testing and assurance space
You’ll also bring significant experience of testing techniques, service, systems and implementation approaches covering both agile, DevOps and more traditional implementation methodologies this to include experience of some or all of the below:
- Establishing a continuous testing approach and the software that supports it.
- Establishing an automated testing approach and advising on the software and techniques that support it.
- Establishing a high-frequency release environment and the software and techniques that support that.
- Establishing a DevOps culture which involves closer working between the dev teams and the operations team and an understanding of creating a culture of shared delivery.
- Establishing a culture that encourages rapid engagement and resolution of defects and the systems and techniques that support that.
- Establishing a quality first delivery approach including how to increase a client’s test maturity to achieve this.
- Establishing a best practice approach to test environment and data management.
- Experience of defining and implementing test policies and programme test strategies.
- Ability to create compelling intellectual property and material related to your SME area.
- Active alignment and engagement with Professional Bodies representatives of the testing profession.
- Evidence of having coached and mentored junior consulting staff to help them achieve excellence for themselves and their clients.
Education and training
- A record of continuous professional development
- Ideally a degree level, within a technology or business discipline
- Relevant professional qualifications (such as International Software Testing Qualifications Board – BCS ISTQB – Or the equivalent gained through practical experience)
- Scaled agile qualification
We offer you:
The opportunity to work in a diverse and international environment with an informal culture, with a flat hierarchy, in which we cooperate across business areas and levels. We care about results, first and foremost. We care about people and how we can constantly challenge each other to become better. Your background is less important to us than your ability to create results, to create change. We prize excellence and ingenuity but know that both have to be grounded in reality. The reality of making our clients ready for the future.