Development Lead - Automation

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Role: Development Lead - Automation

Start Date: ASAP

Location: Telford with flexibility to travel within the UK

Duration: 3-6 months

Case Management Delivery Group is establishing 3 Platform Delivery teams who will undertake the end to end lifecycle delivery for solutions to the client. Within the Platform Delivery Team the Dev/Test Lead will report to the Platform Delivery Manager and be a member of their Leadership Team. They will be responsible leading a team of Developers and Testers who will operate using Agile principles and practices.

Responsibilities:

* You will ensure the team adopts a consistent approach to the Development and Testing activities embracing up-to-date practices based on optimising the use of automation throughout project delivery and service operations.

* You will increase the efficiency and effectiveness of Development, Assurance and Testing activities through continuous process improvement

* You will undertake the Line Management of a mixed team of junior to more experienced personnel, providing support for them to grow their capabilities and acting as a mentor/coach where applicable.

* You will encourage the principle of self-organising teams within an effective governance framework with a risk based approach to provide high quality software in a cost effective and timely manner

* You will have accountability for the adherence of quality assurance, Dev and Test Processes standards across the Development/Testing team and act as the escalation point within the team

* You will ensure Release or Service Development and Test Approaches are produced, maintained, conform to Delivery Group standards and are followed by the team

* You will support the front-end process; including validation of the delivery approach and estimation

* You will work closely with the Delivery Architecture team to ensure compliance to the various architectural definitions and strategies

* You will encourage the development and sharing of good practice and promote on-going continuous process improvement

Essential Knowledge, Criteria and Skills

* Extensive experience in developing and leading IT delivery staff in a large, complex IT environment.

* Demonstrable experience in leading multiple teams across multiple locations.

* Experience managing usage of Development and/or Test Automation tooling and processes - such as Sonarcube, Selenium Web-driver, SoapUI, Cucumber etc.

* In-depth experience of TDD and BDD.

* Experience of developing and testing solutions in Cloud environments.

* Experience of introducing Test Automation - including in a 'legacy' IT context.

* Has a deep understanding of how business processes are integrated with IT services and the challenges involved in doing so.

* Experience with DevOps and Agile Delivery Frameworks.

* Proactive, strong leader who has a proven ability to collaborate with staff at all levels.

* Good communicator with strong presentation skills.

* Mentoring and Coaching of less-experienced staff to pass on knowledge.

Desirable Knowledge, Criteria and Skills

* Experience of working with Pega and/or Documentum in an agile environment.

* Has an understanding and knowledge of how IT architecture impacts delivery processes and quality.

* ECM Practitioner certification

* Has a working knowledge of agile and Lean concepts as applied at scale;

* Holds the values of the Agile Manifesto and applies the principles behind the Agile Manifesto.

* ISTQB Advanced Test Manager certification or equivalent (or if applying internally be prepared to achieve this within 6 months of taking up duty).