Home Office Digital designs, builds and develops services for the rest of the department and for government. Every year our systems support up to 3 million visa applications, checks on 100 million border crossings, up to 8 million passport applications and deliver 140 million police checks on people, vehicles and property.
As a Principal Quality Assurance and Testing (QAT) Delivery Owner for Emergency Services Mobile Communication Programme (ESMCP), you'll be critical to overseeing QAT projects, dealing with risks and issues, setting the direction for QAT and implementing QAT approaches. You will be expected to provide technical advice and assurance on improving the way things are done. You will provide technical leadership, guidance and support to others within the QAT community. You will work with senior delivery partners to make sure QAT is embedded by default into the development and delivery approach. To help the QAT practice thrive, you will call on your expertise and apply these to help the organisation deliver better success.
Working across multiple complex project teams, you will promote quality outcomes and values across the organisation.
Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. Where this is the case, employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in the office.
Frequent travel expected to Croydon, Bristol, Winchester, Marlow and user sites across the UK.
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As a Principal QAT Delivery Owner your main day to day responsibilities will be:
* Setting the Organisational level strategy for the initiation, delivery and development of QAT solutions in the ESMCP Programme.
* Working in collaboration with senior delivery partners in QAT, Home Office Digital Profession and more broadly across the organisation or wider industry, to ensure that effective and efficient QAT capabilities are developed and fully integrated into the software development process for ESMCP.
* Establishing and maintaining effective commercial partnerships, working with a diverse range of specialist QAT service providers to build multi-disciplined teams to support success of delivery.
* Aligning and adhering to Quality, Standards and Assurance Governance models set in Home Office Digital. Ensuring strong technical assurance across the board, maintaining and reporting on governance for Risk and other related activities.
* Providing technical advice and assurance on the wider application of QAT solutions in ECMCP, influencing the effectiveness and delivery of quality practices throughout the organisation
* Leading QAT teams throughout the delivery process through the influential provision of technical leadership and guidance. Working with business stakeholders, understanding their needs and translating them into a QAT approach.
* Identifying and driving forward the development QAT capabilities within the QAT organisation, including continuous professional development and exploitation of new and emerging industry leading technologies.