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Description

Join our journey to create a new experience for the National Lottery and help us to power change for the greater good.

About Us

We are Allwyn UK, part of the Allwyn Entertainment Group – a multi-national lottery operator with a market-leading presence in Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Cyprus and Italy. We are the operator of the Fourth Licence (10 year licence) for the National Lottery since February 2024.

‍We’ve developed ground-breaking technologies, built player protection frameworks, and have a proven track record of making lotteries better. Our aim is to create one of the UK’s most inclusive organisations – where people can bring the best of themselves, to do their best work, every day, for the benefit of good causes.

While the main contribution of the National Lottery to society is through the funds to good causes, at Allwyn we put our purpose and values at the heart of everything we do. Join us as we embark on a once-in-a-lifetime, largescale transformation journey to build a bigger, better, and safer National Lottery that delivers more money to good causes.

The role requires the person to be in the office 3 days per week at our Watford office

Role Purpose

This role will manage all aspects of test delivery across the Technology Product Portfolio, including Digital (web & mobile), Retail, Service Delivery & Data. This role will play a key role within the QA/ Test enablement team, who operate as a ‘Centre of Excellence’, providing test and Quality Assurance solutions, resourcing and tooling to support the portfolio demands.

Building a team that aspires to excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning, ensuring the integrity and reliability of all lottery systems is a key part of this role.

Role Responsibilities

 
 

Test Resource Management: Demand and Capacity Planning ensuring business demands are being met Tooling: Implementation of tooling to support resource allocation forecasting Portfolio Tracking: Working with technology product functions and the wider business stakeholders shaping the service offerings of test/ QA to support the delivery of portfolio work Test Delivery reporting across multiple test programmes of work Estimation: Ability to right size the resource requirements, creating an estimation model that can be used against all portfolio work Time to Market (TTM): Evaluate speed and throughput, balancing quality using tooling and process improvements Line management and mentorship of (QA Leads & senior QA Analyst) Be an advocate of change driving continuous improvements Test/ QA Vendor Management. Working with our partners to support the portfolio delivery demand and ensure key vendor SLA’s are being met. Budget monitoring

 

Key Measures Of Success

 

Ability to forecast demand capacity in real time Ability to provide programme level Test Delivery reports via automated dashboards Ability to report progress against Quality KPI’s and forecast quality trends Ability to apply a resource estimation methodology at key Project Gates with known levels of tolerance Ability to build and maintain a high performing team to execute delivery in a high demand environment whilst ensuring adherence to governance and quality standards Ability to foster and maintain effective relationships with internal and external management teams

 

Key Skills And Experience

 

Demonstratable experience of resource management and running multi streamed test activities across large testing projects and portfolios of work Demonstrable experience of implementing innovative change within test/QA Experience of working with senior internal and external stakeholders Project Management Experience Experience of cultivating a high performing test/QA team leading by example Vendor Management experience

HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.