The role
The Senior Delivery Manager is a vital role within the Blenheim Chalcot portfolio and Koodoo. Critical leadership role in ensuring that projects or services are delivered effectively, on time, within scope, and on budget. You will gain hands-on experience in a fast-paced and progressive environment, where you will support us in building our next generation of GenAI enabled tech businesses.
Key Responsibilities:
Agile Delivery Management
Lead sprint planning, backlog grooming, and execution activities
Facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
Remove impediments to team progress and delivery
Balance technical debt with new feature development
Business Outcome Alignment
Work closely with product teams to track North Star metrics
Develop traction metrics that demonstrate progress toward business goals
Advise product leadership on prioritisation to maximise revenue impact
Translate technical capabilities into business value propositions
Hands-on QA Automation
Directly contribute to and develop automated test frameworks, scripts, and
infrastructure
Personally design and implement critical automated test suites and CI/CD
integrations
Code review test automation implementations and provide technical guidance
Establish best practices, tools, and frameworks for automated testing
Maintain deep technical knowledge of testing tools, languages, and frameworks
Manual QA Oversight
Create comprehensive manual test artifacts and documentation
Design and maintain detailed test case libraries across products and features
Develop test strategies that effectively balance automated and manual testing approaches
Perform critical path testing for high-priority features and releases
Implement test case management solutions and quality metrics tracking
Team Leadership
Manage cross-functional delivery teams, including developers, QA engineers, and product owners
Foster a culture of technical excellence and business awareness
Ensure effective communication between technical and business stakeholders
About you
The ideal candidate will have a track-record in delivering results in a fast-moving business and hence be comfortable with change and uncertainty. Excellent stakeholder management experience is essential to being successful in this role.
Qualification and Technical Expertise:
10+ years of experience in software delivery management, product management or related roles
Proven hands-on experience implementing QA automation frameworks and tools
Direct experience creating and maintaining test artifacts and test case libraries
Strong knowledge of agile methodologies and sprint management
Experience defining and tracking business metrics and KPIs
Demonstrated ability to influence product roadmaps based on technical insights
Track record of delivering projects that directly impact revenue
Technical proficiency in at least one automation language/framework (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright)
Required Skills:
Experience with modern CI/CD pipelines and test integration
Background in both QA engineering and delivery management
Knowledge of data analytics and metric definition
Experience in revenue optimization initiatives
Keyskills: Service Delivery Service Delivery Management Project Delivery IT Service Delivery Management SLA Management