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Create head-of-test.md #73

Closed ampypoole closed 4 years ago

ampypoole commented 4 years ago

A head of test takes ownership for establishing policy for the test team and setting the testing strategy. At this level, you: will own continuous improvement, research new technology and new techniques to implement change will make important decisions will build the QAT community and provide organisational leadership may advocate test capabilities both internally and outside of government make sure that teams have the right capabilities

Area Tasks Stories
Testing policy, strategy and standards. Responsible for ensuring that the relevant policy, strategy and standards comply with relevant government regulations. That the relevant policy's are applied correctly across all teams and are updated when needed.
Recruitment of test engineers Planning when new engineers are needed and recruiting people with relevant skills.
​ Skills planning Ensuring that engineers have the skills that they need now and planning for skills that will be needed in the future.
​ Line Management Line managing test engineers , defining objectives and performance measurements for engineers. Helping them build relevant development plans , managing and performance issues. This also includes working with relevant teams to understand their requirements, rotation of test engineers around teams
Long term strategic planning Responsible for ensuring that UKHO has a up to date long term testing vision, both from a people and technology side
Part of senior technology management team Working with other senior technology managers on a range of tactical/strategic issues affecting UKHO.
​ Product Owner There are a number of lead test engineers that the head of test acts as the product owner for , both helping frame the requirements but also signing off the final solution.
ampypoole commented 4 years ago

Something like this

iwasdavid commented 4 years ago

@ampypoole @gregzealley @TomGuppy I've chucked that text into a md table so should just need a proof read now