Test's Ability: Delivery (Testing)

• Showing initiative
• Estimating effectively
• Ability to delegate
• Size and scope of the deliverables
• Understanding when to get support
• Impact on tech team productivity
• Enables developers to test and release their code effectively through coaching and mentoring

Able to help deliver small-medium tasks, working individually or in a pair.

Example behaviours:

• Executed testing for a small to medium feature
• Identified the best tools to test effectively

Able to help deliver medium-large tasks individually or with support from peers.

Able to plan and estimate testing of medium tasks.

Example behaviours:

• Correctly estimated the amount of time a new ELS endpoint would take to test
• Identified the best tools to test effectively and carried out testing with support from a developer

Able to help deliver medium-large tasks that span multiple systems with support from peers.

Able to plan and estimate testing of medium-large tasks, and proactively inform the team when work is likely to be delayed, and suggest sensible workarounds/next steps to mitigate the impact of delayed work.

Able to question and push back on work that is not valuable for the tech team.

Able to effectively prioritise own workload and focus across many streams of work.

Example behaviours:

• Created a test strategy for implementing multiple channel adaptors
• Prioritised work across multiple teams
• Planned and executed a testing strategy for a database migration, informed the right people about it and sought the right support

Able to help estimate delivery of work across the product team, proactively informing the Triumvirate & stakeholders on progress.

Effectively manages deliverables for the team, ensuring the prioritised work is planned and valuable to our goals.

Ensures their team has the right expertise.

Actively works to remove distractions and low-impact work from the tech team.

Example behaviours:

• Worked with EMs to plan a week of Fluidity in order to give their team required expertise.

Creates progression plans to develop careers of the technology team.

Ensures the technology team has the right expertise, working with the ED/VPE/CTO to inform the hiring plan.

Responsible for the tech hiring process.

Evangelises the work of the technology team, internally and externally.

Example behaviours:

• Advertise open tech roles, review CVs, interview candidates, and run debrief sessions
• Ensure the team publishes a blog post about our latest tech team initiative / achievement
• Worked with a report to set their personal for the quarter