Dave Wainwright

Head of Test and Qa @Bud Systems

Bristol, GB

Management and mentoring of the Test Team including recruitment and working with offshore 3rd party test team (team size 6 - 15) comprised of Manual, Automation & SDeT engineers (including recruitment)• SaaS platform• Third party engagement and management of satellite, offshore team• Process Mapping and Management• Quality Initiatives (Gherkin to STR so knowledge of the platform is not key to running the test/Automation rewrite to better standards/Creation of Hybrid Test Engineer role (Manual and Automation test capable)/Test tagging both AT and Manual/Test Case Repository for test storage and reuse/Cross referenced guide to platform testing using joined up previous initiatives/Introduction of Release When Ready in the Journey to CI/CD).• Resource mapping to agile delivery• Release Management - Agile, bi-weekly, Release When Ready and hotfixes• Release Management planning around releases, migrations and infrastructure releases• Transformative approach to removing outdated processes and introducing sustainable patterns of delivery• Automation and manual testing, review and business wide Test Strategy• Automation rework project instigated for better quality tests• Major Incident Management team member for release and test engagement• Azure DevOps• Product Steering Group and Technical Leadership Team member• Root Cause Analysis input and action output• GDPR• BPSS & SC cleared• Customer facing as required

Telford College of Arts and Technology

NEBS Management