QA and Testing Lead Delivery Owner

£55,000 - £63,000 + bonus + 27.9% pension + flexible working

UK Home Office - Croydon & London

The Digital Data and Technology department at enables the Home Office to keep citizens safe and the country secure. They design, build and operate services which are critical in helping the department achieve its mission.

Embedded within a significant area of IT delivery, the QAT Lead Delivery Owner will have the opportunity to promote quality outcome, value and continuous improvement across the organisation. The successful candidate will be setting up the programme or project level strategy for the initiation, delivery and development of quality assurance and testing solutions.

The QAT Lead Delivery Owner will be working in collaboration with other delivery partners in QA and within the Digital Data and Technology department, to ensure effective and efficient QA capabilities are developed and fully integrated into the software development process. The successful candidate will be expected to build and develop partnerships working with a wide range of specialist QAT service providers to build multi-disciplined teams.

Experience:

• At least 5 years' experience leading complex QA projects and programmes
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• The ability to easily develop relationships with various business partners within QA
• Experience driving forward development of Quality Assurance and testing capabilities
• Excellent knowledge and experience with QA practices and tools
• Innovative mindset in order to explore, identify new testing practices, tools and technologies
• Excellent management skills
• Excellent communication skills with stakeholders of all levels

What's in it for you?

On top of your annual salary, you will also receive a bonus, 25 days holiday rising to 35. An extra bank holiday for the Queens birthday, and flexible working hours; allowing you to spend more time with your family. The Home Office is passionate about career growth and development so you will have the opportunity to be involved in excellent training programmes during the year. If you are interested in this role would like to learn more about opportunities at the Home Office, please contact Sparta Global.

QA and Testing Lead Delivery Owner

£55,000 - £63,000 + bonus + 27.9% pension + flexible working

UK Home Office - Croydon & London

The Digital Data and Technology department at enables the Home Office to keep citizens safe and the country secure. They design, build and operate services which are critical in helping the department achieve its mission.

Embedded within a significant area of IT delivery, the QAT Lead Delivery Owner will have the opportunity to promote quality outcome, value and continuous improvement across the organisation. The successful candidate will be setting up the programme or project level strategy for the initiation, delivery and development of quality assurance and testing solutions.

The QAT Lead Delivery Owner will be working in collaboration with other delivery partners in QA and within the Digital Data and Technology department, to ensure effective and efficient QA capabilities are developed and fully integrated into the software development process. The successful candidate will be expected to build and develop partnerships working with a wide range of specialist QAT service providers to build multi-disciplined teams.

Experience:

• At least 5 years' experience leading complex QA projects and programmes
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• The ability to easily develop relationships with various business partners within QA
• Experience driving forward development of Quality Assurance and testing capabilities
• Excellent knowledge and experience with QA practices and tools
• Innovative mindset in order to explore, identify new testing practices, tools and technologies
• Excellent management skills
• Excellent communication skills with stakeholders of all levels

What's in it for you?

On top of your annual salary, you will also receive a bonus, 25 days holiday rising to 35. An extra bank holiday for the Queens birthday, and flexible working hours; allowing you to spend more time with your family. The Home Office is passionate about career growth and development so you will have the opportunity to be involved in excellent training programmes during the year. If you are interested in this role would like to learn more about opportunities at the Home Office, please contact Sparta Global.

Azure DevOps Engineer - Top UK Azure Partner! 

Want to work in one of the largest and most advanced Azure environments in the UK?

Always wanted to work for a top Microsoft Partner? Look no further!

Here at Cloud Decisions we have again teamed up with one of the UK’s leading Azure DevOps specialists as they look to grow their Coventry based team. Working with one of the city's largest enterprise scale organisations, this Partner (a Microsoft Partner of the Year finalist) helps to deliver cutting edge Azure DevOps capabilities!

As one of the primary Azure DevOps providers for this customer, you will be embedded to manage and advance Azure DevOps and Infrastructure as Code.

What you’ll be doing...

As part of the Azure continuous improvement team you will closely with both internal and external technical teams to manage, deploy and deliver new Azure DevOps solutions. We’ll need you to bring some skills with you, including:

• Experience developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining Azure Resource Manager template-based
• deployments in an enterprise environment.
• Build and deploy Azure Boards & Azure Repositories
• Build and Release using Azure Pipelines Experience supporting multiple CI/CD pipelines with live deployments.
• Azure IaaS/PaaS

What’s in it for you...
There are near un-limited opportunities to learn, progress and develop with this Microsoft Partner, here’s a flavour of what you’ll be able to achieve...

• An opportunity to join one of the UK’s most respected Azure Partners
• Learn and progress your skills through funded Microsoft Azure certifications & training
• Work on leading edge Azure technologies in an enterprise scale

What to do next?
Get in touch with us! Cloud Decisions are a dedicated and certified Cloud Talent Partner. Our Talent Specialists are certified in Microsoft Azure & Microsoft365, allowing us to have an un-paralleled level of conversation with you about your experience, establish whether this role is right for you and connect you with other opportunities that suit your background.  

Azure DevOps Engineer - Top UK Azure Partner! 

Want to work in one of the largest and most advanced Azure environments in the UK?

Always wanted to work for a top Microsoft Partner? Look no further!

Here at Cloud Decisions we have again teamed up with one of the UK’s leading Azure DevOps specialists as they look to grow their Coventry based team. Working with one of the city's largest enterprise scale organisations, this Partner (a Microsoft Partner of the Year finalist) helps to deliver cutting edge Azure DevOps capabilities!

As one of the primary Azure DevOps providers for this customer, you will be embedded to manage and advance Azure DevOps and Infrastructure as Code.

What you’ll be doing...

As part of the Azure continuous improvement team you will closely with both internal and external technical teams to manage, deploy and deliver new Azure DevOps solutions. We’ll need you to bring some skills with you, including:

• Experience developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining Azure Resource Manager template-based
• deployments in an enterprise environment.
• Build and deploy Azure Boards & Azure Repositories
• Build and Release using Azure Pipelines Experience supporting multiple CI/CD pipelines with live deployments.
• Azure IaaS/PaaS

What’s in it for you...
There are near un-limited opportunities to learn, progress and develop with this Microsoft Partner, here’s a flavour of what you’ll be able to achieve...

• An opportunity to join one of the UK’s most respected Azure Partners
• Learn and progress your skills through funded Microsoft Azure certifications & training
• Work on leading edge Azure technologies in an enterprise scale

What to do next?
Get in touch with us! Cloud Decisions are a dedicated and certified Cloud Talent Partner. Our Talent Specialists are certified in Microsoft Azure & Microsoft365, allowing us to have an un-paralleled level of conversation with you about your experience, establish whether this role is right for you and connect you with other opportunities that suit your background.  

Our client is seeking an IT Project Manager on an initial 6-month contract, with the possibility of an extension.

Working Hours and Pay Rate:

Monday - Friday, 09:00 - 17:00. At a pay rate of £26.01 Per Hour

Job Purpose:

• Managing the concurrent delivery of technology projects from a wide portfolio, including but not limited to:
• New technology implementation
• System upgrades
• Device rollout to customers
• Managing external third-party ICT suppliers throughout the duration of the project lifecycle.
• Communicating effectively with project stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Managing external third-party ICT suppliers throughout the duration of the project lifecycle.
• Communicating effectively with project stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
• Coordinating ICT technical pre-sales and procurement activities at project initiation.
• Transitioning the technical solution into operational support as part of project closure, and ensuring 'lessons learned' is performed and recorded.
• Prioritising, setting clear goals and targets, monitoring progress, and holding delivery team members to account.
• Using judgement and criteria to adapt previous approaches in the light of current circumstances.
• Making effective decisions in the absence of complete information to ensure work can move forward whilst mitigating risk.
• Ensuring ICT strategy is not compromised during project delivery unless agreed as an exception.

Skills and Experience:

• Be a qualified PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent relevant experience.
• Comfortable managing multiple projects concurrently as part of a wider project portfolio which may have interdependencies.
• Demonstrable expertise in managing projects to time, quality and budget.
• Demonstrable experience identifying and managing technical risks, issues and interdependencies
• You will have an Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) qualification or be able to demonstrate a clear knowledge of ITIL policies and procedures.
• Experience of Agile project management methodologies.

121 Jobs is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Our client is seeking an IT Project Manager on an initial 6-month contract, with the possibility of an extension.

Working Hours and Pay Rate:

Monday - Friday, 09:00 - 17:00. At a pay rate of £26.01 Per Hour

Job Purpose:

• Managing the concurrent delivery of technology projects from a wide portfolio, including but not limited to:
• New technology implementation
• System upgrades
• Device rollout to customers
• Managing external third-party ICT suppliers throughout the duration of the project lifecycle.
• Communicating effectively with project stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Managing external third-party ICT suppliers throughout the duration of the project lifecycle.
• Communicating effectively with project stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
• Coordinating ICT technical pre-sales and procurement activities at project initiation.
• Transitioning the technical solution into operational support as part of project closure, and ensuring 'lessons learned' is performed and recorded.
• Prioritising, setting clear goals and targets, monitoring progress, and holding delivery team members to account.
• Using judgement and criteria to adapt previous approaches in the light of current circumstances.
• Making effective decisions in the absence of complete information to ensure work can move forward whilst mitigating risk.
• Ensuring ICT strategy is not compromised during project delivery unless agreed as an exception.

Skills and Experience:

• Be a qualified PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent relevant experience.
• Comfortable managing multiple projects concurrently as part of a wider project portfolio which may have interdependencies.
• Demonstrable expertise in managing projects to time, quality and budget.
• Demonstrable experience identifying and managing technical risks, issues and interdependencies
• You will have an Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) qualification or be able to demonstrate a clear knowledge of ITIL policies and procedures.
• Experience of Agile project management methodologies.

121 Jobs is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Our clients are champions in the fields of Technology, which include, SaaS, Cloud, Ai, Contact Center, Unified Comms, Security and Consultancy. Award winning company seeking DevOps Engineer £55-60k. Degree educated (Preferred)

The role.

Automation

• Facilitate the transition from traditional web applications and services to container-based alternatives with an end-goal of moving to a fully orchestrated environment
• Work closely with members of the development teams to deploy containers quickly and efficiently and own the deployment standards to provide a consistent and scalable solution.
• Manage and improve automated test suites and framework (Jenkins)

Experience working in an Agile environment

Continuous Improvement

• Responsible for the maintenance and optimisation of our clients CI Pipeline (Jenkins, Harbor, Puppet).
• Develop/document tools and processes to drive and improve customer experience

Work closely with members of the development, operations, security, provisioning, NOC and support teams to ensure a stable transition from development to staging and production.

Infrastructure support

• Maintain systems and tooling responsible for continuous delivery

Prepare technical handovers to rest of our teams in Operations and Support.

Our clients are champions in the fields of Technology, which include, SaaS, Cloud, Ai, Contact Center, Unified Comms, Security and Consultancy. Award winning company seeking DevOps Engineer £55-60k. Degree educated (Preferred)

The role.

Automation

• Facilitate the transition from traditional web applications and services to container-based alternatives with an end-goal of moving to a fully orchestrated environment
• Work closely with members of the development teams to deploy containers quickly and efficiently and own the deployment standards to provide a consistent and scalable solution.
• Manage and improve automated test suites and framework (Jenkins)

Experience working in an Agile environment

Continuous Improvement

• Responsible for the maintenance and optimisation of our clients CI Pipeline (Jenkins, Harbor, Puppet).
• Develop/document tools and processes to drive and improve customer experience

Work closely with members of the development, operations, security, provisioning, NOC and support teams to ensure a stable transition from development to staging and production.

Infrastructure support

• Maintain systems and tooling responsible for continuous delivery

Prepare technical handovers to rest of our teams in Operations and Support.