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Ian Goddard

@iangoddard

Senior QA Manager at Hudl, overseeing quality across six teams and three product areas in three regions.

At Hudl, I expanded from managing QA for four squads to overseeing six teams across three regions and three product areas. I took full ownership of the QA budget and expanded responsibility for unit-wide QA metrics, reporting directly to the VP of QA.

At Napster Group, I set up the SDET department and automation systems from scratch for iOS, Android, Oculus, VR systems, and web portals. I also defined and maintained deployment pipelines, and later oversaw QA across London and Croatia.

Earlier, I created certification test regimes at Ixaris and helped establish Dolby and DLNA conformance testing at Eurofins Digital Testing. I’ve worked across manual and automated testing, using Ruby, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Python, and hold ISTQB Foundation and Advanced Level certifications.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior QA Manager

Current

Hudl

Oct 2022 - Present (4 years 1 month)

Expanded Leadership Role (QA Manager to Senior Leadership)

Operational Leadership: Transitioned from managing a 4 squads in a single area to overseeing a full operating unit at Hudl, currently leading 6 teams (with 8 QA professionals, including Managers) across 3 geographic regions and 3 distinct product areas, including a unified backend database, full video pipeline, and data generation product

QA Manager

Hudl

Mar 2022 - Oct 2022 (7 months)

Focused on driving quality excellence by enhancing outcomes for both individual team members (reports) and cross-functional squad projects. Utilising a deep understanding of user needs and system architecture to deliver continuous improvements and ensure the successful quality delivery of projects.

Line Management
Provide Clarity & Guidance: Established clear role expectations and performance goa

QA and SDET Lead / Interim Head of QA & Director of Front End Operations

Napster Group

Jul 2020 - Mar 2022 (1 year 8 months)

Key Achievements and Responsibilities:
Setup SDET Department: Setup of SDET department, implementing robust automation systems from scratch for cross-platform testing (iOS, Android, Oculus, other VR systems, and web portals).
Manual Testing & On-Site Support: Provided testing as needed, including out-of-hours on-site assistance for video feeds presentation.
Pipeline & Deployment Management: Define

Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Culture Trip

Feb 2020 - Jun 2020 (4 months)

Working with an Agile team to ensure build quality, functionality and performance of a variety of component system across both web and mobile devices. This included working with third party information and experience providers for booking of “on-trip” experiences as well as ingest of their party APIs for a “Places to Stay” feature providing links to hotel and other accommodation options

Seconded

Lead Software Development Engineer In Test

DAZN

Jul 2017 - Feb 2020 (2 years 7 months)

Working with an Agile team to ensure build quality and functionality of the DAZN system across both web and mobile devices.
Leading the testing team focused on video playback testing across multiple territories and devices. Integrated into the development team to provide testing activities as well as planning and expert subject guidance where needed.

Focused on front end development and the impl

Release and Certification Manager

Ixaris

Jun 2016 - Jul 2017 (1 year 1 month)

Ensuring quality of integration between Ixaris and clients and internal release build quality.

Design and management of RESTful API certification testing regime, working closely with partners to validate and ensure compliance of implementations and issuing of certification authorisation.

Development of UAT test scripts and tooling for testing of internal Ixaris product releases, ensuring build

Senior Test Engineer

Eurofins Digital Testing

Aug 2012 - May 2016 (3 years 9 months)

Instrumental in realising several new testing regimes and associated processes, including Dolby and DLNA conformance testing. Technical lead and author for creation of new regimes and certification test sets for technology such as AAC audio format, as well as project management of the installation of several new test services. A key figure in gaining ISO:17025 accreditation and the maintenance of

Test Engineer

Eurofins Digital Testing

Dec 2010 - Aug 2012 (1 year 8 months)

Focused on broadcast DVB security conformance testing within a team of testers, accountable to the Test Manager. Experience and knowledge gained within DVB implementations (both iDTV and STB).
Experience testing devices for HbbTV conformance.

Main role and responsibilities:

• Executing full testing programmes on customer platforms and projects;
• Accurately recording results and observations;
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