Programme Head of QA

Tender description

Who Speclialist Work With The role will involve managing over 50 mixed supplier and civil servant resources. What Specialists Work On Initiating and influencing test automation and test engineering practices Initiating and influencing the use of a broad range of tools, including open source and cloud based Ensuring and advising on integration testing at an organisational level, which may involve complex technical integration with other organisations Ensuring/ advising on the use of analytical techniques Enable the use of exploratory testing techniques and evaluating aspects of user experience, accessibility, compatibility and performance Initiating and influencing the delivery of test engineering within an agile environment Ensure and advise on how to apply test engineering practices to support the digital by default service standard Where the Work Takes Place Central London and Croydon Early Market Engagement Working Arrangements On site 5 days per week. Expenses will not be paid for travel within the M25. Travel to other parts of the country will be claimable at the standard Home Office expenses rate. Work Location Central London and Croydon Security Clearance SC Additional T&Cs Standard Terms and Conditions Skills & Experience Experience of large scale integration testing of cloud based platforms Experience of large scale Data Migrations into cloud based platforms Ability to define and implement agile test strategies at an organisational level Experience of running large (>40) performance and automation testing teams based on open source tooling Significant experience in QA testing practices including system, system integration, accessibility, compatibility, performance and exploratory testing Experience of integrating Test/DevOps tooling within a Continuous Integration lifecycle Experience of testing Big Data Hadoop frameworks Nice to Haves Experience of integration of biometric systems experience working on government digital projects Experience of DevOps toolsets including Jenkins, Puppet, Ansible, Nexus, Atlassian suite of tools Experience of HortonWorks Big Data framework Experience in containerisation e.g. Docker No. of Specialists to Evaluate 3 Cultural Fit Criteria Work as a team with our organisation and other suppliers Transparent and collaborative when making decisions Assessment Method Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 65% Cultural fit 5% Price 30% Questions from Suppliers Budget range