Head of QA

Summary

10+ years in QA and SDET lead roles, head of QA roles, head of DevOps and quality engineering roles. Coming from a technical and development background I moved into QA, and specialized in the Microsoft Stack, Azure, Automation using .Net at all levels. A full understanding of shift left, shift right and a proven background in defining and implementing quality, test, infrastructure and automation strategies that enhance engineering capabilities and efficiency, quality appreciation and user experiences. A core focus on skilling up and coaching improvements in teams and scaling up teams from nothing,

Expectations

I am open and have previously worked across a range of industries and types, startups through to corporates. I want a company that values quality and needs someone to drive home improvements or create a strategy from nothing and scaling a team up

Employment Preferences

Expected Base Salary

**,000 GBP

Expected Hourly Rate

**0 GBP/hr

Academic Degree

Experience

Skills

• Automation
• Shift-Left
• Team Management
• Development
• Continuous Testing Implementation
• Git
• GitHub Actions
• Azure
• Azure DevOps
• Jira
• Datadog
• Cloudflare
• Sonar Cloud
• Playwright
• Appium
• Restsharp
• Specflow
• Postman
• JMeter
• Percy
• Cloud Testing
• C# .Net
• Kotlin
• Espresso
• Terraform
• ARM
• SQL
• Pact.Net Contract Tests
• Microservices
• Azure Monitor
• Fiddler
• OWASP
• Incident Response
• Accessibility
• Integration
• Regression
• Unit Testing
• Performance Testing
• Jest
• Selenium
• CI
• CD Pipelines
• Cypress
• Xunit
• Gatling
• K6
• JavaScript
• New Relic
• Risk Based Testing
• Mobile Testing
• Web Testing
• Database Testing
• Contract Testing
• BDD
• TDD
• Azure Governance
• Policies