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People Management:- Identify developmental areas at team and individual level- Provide coaching and mentoring to staff to support their development initiatives- Maintain a healthy talent pipeline through internal and external programs- Ensure that appropriately skilled development teams, internal or external, are available to build products in line with the product roadmaps- Performance management- Capacity planningOperational Excellence:- Establish procedures and processes that support the company and departmental policies, standards, and strategic directives - Maintain best practices in development such as code reviews, design thinking, secure development (DevSecOps) and automation (CI/CD pipelines)- Improve efficiency and service to both internal and external customers- Execute against product roadmap- Release managementPartner Relationship Management:- Manage external development partners, including the selection, contracting and ongoing performance reviews- Provide input into decisions whether new product features should be insourced or outsourcedPolicy & Process:- Ensure relevant company policies are implemented in the team- Own and maintain processes and methodologies in support of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)- Select, acquire, and implement appropriate tools and relevant software licenses needed by the teams to perform their duties

Liaise with various departmentsRecruiting, staff supervision, and staff trainingResource capacity planning and test effort estimationsTest planning and test strategy development Manage and report on test progress to IT Management Test process definition, management and continual improvementTest standards definition, management and continual improvementIntegration of testing and development activitiesSpecification reviewSystem documentation reviewRelease managementDefine test cycles using HP ALMProject Management and Tracking using HP ALMCapture requirements using HP ALMTest case design using HP ALMTest case execution using HP ALMManage test environment configurationTesting of back-end process applicationsTesting of web applicationsTesting of desktop applicationsTesting of mobile applications

Test windows desktop communication applicationTest back-end processes in unix environmentTest Tool = HP Quality CenterDevelop and implement standards for the test team in term of using HP Quality Center

Tested a windows based desktop Policy Administration application for the life insurance industry.The application consisted of different modules for example banking, claims, client that were all all linked together to form one solution.Managed quote process for core development teamTesting tool used = HP Quality CentreWork environment = Agile(Scrum)