John Wakeling Email & Phone Number

London, London, Gb

Experienced engineering leader overseeing the Sell My Car domain. Directed 4 product teams and supported 21 engineers and Engineering Managers across Europe. Played a pivotal role in growing company revenue 10x post-acquisition. Proven expertise in remote team management, talent development, and strategic product evolution to enhance customer experience and drive revenue growth.

London, London, Gb

Software Engineering Manager at carwow, supporting the engineering and product department to build a great culture of talented people. To help us create the best car buying experience possible for our customers

London, London, Gb

As a Software Development Manager @ M&S i'm responsible for the technical quality, delivery and line manage of two engineering teams. One is a internal Frontend scaffolding team who's responsibly for building and growing our internal FE tooling to support product teams and key aspect of the website. The second team i look after are a delivery team that are building out responsive web applications on top of the company framework and focusing on the Product Details Page on the M&S website. I'm also one of the key business consultants for large technical initiatives, high level sizing, planing and architecture views that i then bring back into the relevant team (either one of mine or another team) and help them break this down and work with them to break it down and design. We are also undertaking a large recruitment drive of around 35 people ranging from Engineering Managers, Scrum master, Senior Engineers to Junior Engineers. I've been filling the role as a hiring manager and helping to screen, run coding and culture interview sessions for candidates and part of the hiring and on-boarding process. I've been responsibly for around 15+ of the hires as part of this initiative. My day to day actives consist of: - Line manage, 1-1, objectives setting and reviews for my direct reports- Consultant and architecture overview of the whole websites web application layer and the key services they consume- Mentoring team members from both a coding, design and personal level. This is done via in person, pair programming, Code Reviews and whiteboard sessions- Work closely with the product owner and Scrum Master to make sure the teams are well looked after- Helping to define what Quality Engineering looks like at M&S and making improvements along the way- Feeding into the broader engineering depart strategy

London, London, Gb

As a front-end tech lead at M&S, I am leading three squads (teams) as well as proving technical direction for the main marks and Spencer’s website. One of the squads is building an internal framework and boilerplate application to enable quick rollout and ongoing maintainability of our front-end applications. The framework is to support M&S to a fully responsive and mobile-first website. The second squad is transitioning those older pages into the new responsive framework, co-ordinating with multiple teams such as APIs, UX and Design as well as platform technologies. I’m also looking after a smaller squad of performance engineers, who’s role is to support the development teams, bring in automated tooling and best practises.

London, London, Gb

At M&S I worked closely with product owners, Developers and test engineers to set out how the testing process will work within each team / project. I was responsible for the test automation code, as well as advocate good testing practises and pairing with engineers to drive hope these best practises.All projects i worked on was Java based, using various tools such as, JUnit, Cucumber-jvm, Rest-assured, Jenkins and Maven.

London, Gb

I am a Developer In Test specialising in test automation I have been involved in developing and maintaining various automated testing frameworks and applications. Whilst improving the current development flow for new features and developing new features.Some of the tools and languages I have been using over this time are: - Clojure- Midje- Ruby- Cucumber - RSpec- Rails- Docker

At The Collinson Group i am building a framework and maintaining various suits of Automated tests using Ruby and Cucumber for business acceptance testing as well as Ruby and Rspec for unit testing, which are all running in CI to provide the best quality and reduce cost. Some of my other responsibilities are, being a mentor to my team and the department on Agile best practices as well as training up developers and testers in learning Ruby and all the other skills requires to become a good all round Developer In Test.

I am a Developer In Test specializing in automation using such open source tools such as Ruby, Cucumber, Capybara, & Selenium-Webdriver. I have been involved in developing and maintaining and automated testing framework which can be used smoothly into the agile processes.At ITV i am building and maintaining a suit of Automated tests for both the Front-end and back-end systems that support ITV Player. Some of the tools and languages i have been using over this time are, Cucumber, RSpec, Capybara, Selenium, Git, PHP.

ITV is the biggest commercial television Network Company in the UK, broadcasting the most talked about television to the UK’s culture, economy and communitiesWithin my Time at ITV I have been working on several different platforms ranging from; ITV back-end Video pipeline. ITV Player on iOS and Android, Content Management platforms such as Drupal and Bloom. This included running both Automated & Functional tests on both platforms as well as cross platform web testing on all major web browsers and all IOS devices. (Such as Safari, Google Chrome, Firefox and IE)Some of my day-to-day activities would be writing test scripts (Manual & Automated) for new and existing functionality from business requirements and user stories; Participation in sprint planning meetings using BDD Agile methodology; Defect raising and re-testing using Quality Centre, Jira & Cucumber and reporting any impediments.Some of my deliverables include: ITV Back-end video pipeline. ITV Player, BGT & Dancing On Ice Mobile Applications, I'm a celebrity, Dancing On Ice, Downton Abbey & ITV's corporate website.

London, Uk, Gb

Test consultant for Vodafone Global. This involved preparation and testing of new features and versions of the software portals, from desktop to mobile phones. Using HP Quality Centre and team forge for creating test cases, raising defects / bugs and information and requirements for new releases. This also included visiting client’s sites across Europe assisting them in optimising their mobile portal for the best user experience; whilst maintaining a high level of performance for their customers. I have been involved and working on Vodafone Myweb Mobile portal, Vodafone Discover; Android application and Vodafone’s admin applications.

ITHR Consulting is an independent IT consultancy company that develops high quality software products to many big organisations who are spread around London and Europe. Within my Time at ITHR I have worked for several projects across several companies, with the main company being Vodafone Global services. Some of the projects I was involved with at Vodafone were; Devices certification and Validation tester, Development QA Tester and testing the GUI interface for their European billing system. I have also been involved in running independent software and device testing / Audits for large organisations; such as LMax, BetFair & Vodafone Group. Using the following mobile and application platform; IPhone, Blackberry & Android Applications along with web and platform bases for the various organisations including the financial market.

Within Vodafone I worked very closely with the development and testing team to prepare devices for releasing to production. To do this, we followed a specific procedure to test every feature of the device for the appropriate aspect of the project.Within this role, I attended conference calls and meetings with all members of the team and management in the UK and Germany for the status of a device, the issues and solutions for the devices we may have; test the device and raise defect or bugs against the device issues that were present. I was predominantly based in London; however, I spent a great deal of time in Düsseldorf with the other member of the Device Certification team based out there.

Dr Byte is a computers repair shop also offering an apprenticeship scheme for young people in IT. when i was at Dr Byte I was head of company infrastructure, maintaining equipment, network and different computer platforms. Helping end-users with day to day problems they would encounter. Repairing, building and maintaining computers, laptops and other computers hardware.

Education record

Information Technology.