Associate Manager DEVTest

An Amazing Career Opportunity for a Associate Manager DEVTest!!

Location: Cardiff UK

Job ID: 33473

As a Associate Manager DevTest in Cardiff, you will help drive the team formation, implementation and maintenance of a robust CI/CD pipeline within HID PACS by supporting the CI/CD Manager.

This is a wide-ranging role, bridging the functions of the DevOPS and QA Validation teams.

If this sounds like you keep on reading !

Who are we? 

HID Global powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places, and things, allowing people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely.

We are a high-tech software company headquartered in Austin, TX, with over 4,000 worldwide employees.  Check us out here: www.hidglobal.com and https://youtu.be/23km5H4K9Eo 

Join our winning team, Physical Access Control Solutions (PACS) at our Cardiff location.

The PACS business is highly visible and one of our most significant portfolios within HID Global. The PACS products include smart cards, mobile access and identifications, software, services and controllers for physical access control.

As our Associate Manager DEVTest , you will support HID’s success by:

• Able to design and implement a wide range of testing techniques to support a scalable and automated CI/CD environment.
• Monitor and triage CI/CD pipeline test failures.
• Design, build and documentation of new CI/CD infrastructure for new features.
• Able to identify and liaise with external teams to identify test gaps
• Able to communicate test results to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Able to project manage and use technical leadership to achieve a team result
• Contributes to project and product planning discussions
• Understands how the product under test operates as part of a wider system
• Able to liaise with the Program team prior to feature development to flesh out requirement required fort new tests
• Plans and scopes for new functionality test requirements
• Able to make decisions regarding the Test Environment
• Coaches / mentors others at a technical level
• Able to raise defects with the business and help prioritize them based on severity
• Able to research, plan and train others within the team
• Able to deliver technical reports
• Actively contribute to customer escalations
• Champions TDD methodology and leads stakeholders in its implementation.

Technical Responsibilities: 

• Works on issues where analysis of situation or data requires review of relevant factors
• Prepares complete project documents
• Designs and conducts experiments, and analyses and interprets data
• Formulates plans and solves problems
• Provides mentoring to more junior staff
• Assists the CI/CD Manager deliver the DevTest vision

What we will love about your background:

• Familiar with SBCs (Arduino/Raspberry Pi) and control of sensors/relays/stepper motors.
• Familiar with Jenkins, NUnit, .Net and scripting.
• Experience of testing Java applications using JUnit, TestNg, Mockito, and dbUnit.
• Experience of Artifactory and Nexus repositories along with Maven and Nuget artifacts management.
• Able to specify, design and produce physical test systems – outsourcing where necessary.
• Should have knowledge of various test/development methodologies such as DDT, BDD, TDD, Acceptance Testing, Unit Testing and Performance/Reliability Testing.
• Should have experience of Systems Integration testing, including End-2-End testing

Your Experience and Education include:

• Engineering degree or equivalent or suitable experience.
• Minimum of +5 years of related industry experience.
• Prior experience with designing and carrying out device testing, embedded FW, software testing, or other related testing experience
• Familiarity with software installation and configuration in Windows and Linux environments
• Ability to install and configure computer system hardware components and establish connections to local area networks and back-end processing systems
• Experience with SQL DB queries to validate software recording proper data and ensure participant data ingested properly prior to testing
• Experience in scripting. (Bash, Groovy, P-Shell, Python, etc.)
• Experience with tracking software development using Jira or other similar programs
• Experience of Agile and Lean Methodologies.
• Does not require previous leadership experience.
• Ability to write complex coded test solutions.

Why apply? 

Empowerment: You will work as part of a global team in a flexible work environment, learning and enhancing your expertise.

Innovation: You embrace challenges and want to drive ambitious change.

Integrity: You are results-orientated, reliable, and straightforward and value being treated accordingly.

HID Global is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer – Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation. 

We are the ASSA ABLOY Group
Our people have made us the global leader in access solutions. In return, we open doors for them wherever they go. With nearly 61,000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries, we help billions of people experience a more open world. Our innovations make all sorts of spaces – physical and virtual – safer, more secure, and easier to access. 

As an employer, we value results – not titles, or backgrounds. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions – supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally.

As we welcome new people on board, it’s important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.