Lead QAT Delivery Owner
| Posting date: | 02 December 2024 |
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| Salary: | £64,300 per year |
| Additional salary information: | New entrants to the Civil Service will start their role on the salary band minimum: £64,300 for London Roles. Recruitment Retention Allowance (RRA): Up to £9,950 is available for candidates who demonstrate exceptional skills and experience evidenced at in |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 December 2024 |
| Location: | Croydon |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 380740/1 |
Summary
A strong continuous improvement culture underpins the way we work, making advancements on how quality is delivered and assured in groundbreaking DevOps environments, including cloud platforms. We are a well-established, well-knit team of quality specialists and among the best in the industry! (Certified to TMMi Level 5).
As a Lead Quality Assurance and Testing (QAT) Delivery Owner, you’ll oversee QAT projects, dealing with risks and issues and forming project stakeholder relationships. You will work with delivery partners to make sure QAT is embedded by default into the development approach. To help the QAT practice thrive, you will call on your expertise in emerging tools and approaches and apply these to help the organisation deliver better success.
Working at project or programme level, you will promote and oversee quality outcomes and values across the organisation. You will further develop your analytical, delivery management and leadership skills with a focus on helping the project team deliver high quality outcomes at pace whilst honing stakeholder engagement skills.
You will work with business stakeholders, understanding their needs and translating them into a QAT approach. Within the DDaT community, you will lead on sharing and collaborating with others to promote the value of QAT.
Successful candidates will be working in the End User Compute and Collaboration team. You will be working with M365 technologies and products, including SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Exchange, Voice and Video devices, Windows and non-Windows devices, Mobile devices (Android and iOS) and Contact Center Solutions.
What you will do
Your main day to day responsibilities will be:
- setting the programme or project level strategy for the initiation, delivery and development of QAT solutions
- working in collaboration with other delivery partners in QAT, DDaT and more broadly across the organisation, to ensure that effective and efficient QAT capabilities are developed and fully integrated into the software development process
- establishing and maintaining effective commercial partnerships, working with a diverse range of specialist QAT service providers to build multi-disciplined teams
- providing technical advice and assurance on the wider application of QAT solutions, helping to inform the delivery of quality practices throughout the organisation
- supporting QAT teams throughout the delivery process through the provision of technical guidance and support
- assisting in the design, build, deployment and improvement of QAT capabilities (people, process and technology) which support the implementation of QA, Testing and Software Development strategies
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