Software Developer in Test CDL is one of the UK's leading insurance software houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a strong track record in the high-volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. We've built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ Agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We like to work in small, focused groups so you're always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of each project you are involved with. Are you passionate about quality and testing software with an Agile mindset? Do you care about 'building the right thing' and 'building the thing right'? Does being part of an innovative culture inspire you? Are you an automation rock star? Then we want you! We're looking for an Software Developer in Test to join our ranks. With a strong collaborative focus and a drive for continuous improvement, you'll play a key part in driving the implementation of strategic automation initiatives which enable better practices for our Delivery Teams to develop features that delight our customers. You'll be an experienced Agile advocate, with a strong testing background and a desire to iterate, innovate, and instigate quality-driven approaches and processes. You'll have a breadth of knowledge in all basic testing techniques, with depth and specialism in automation and in one or more other advanced areas too! You'll be an inspiring teacher, coaching and mentoring others to improve their automation skills and acting as a role model to develop the stars of tomorrow. This is the perfect opportunity to be a part of meaningful change to our flagship and newer products, and help drive a culture of excellence in everything we do. THE ROLE This is a position of influence, with a strong focus on delivery of key automation initiatives and improvements to drive a Quality culture in Testing roles and beyond. You will be comfortable working as a self-starting individual, but have a predominantly collaborative approach to implement and influence positive change in people and processes. With proven expertise and experience in Agile, Quality, and Testing, you will cultivate and strive for a continuous improvement culture and demonstrate a true left-shifted, whole team approach to Quality. As a champion of the Testing Vision and Automation Strategy, you will provide everyday role modelling for other individuals; motivating, mentoring and helping others to develop their automation skills and to aspire to better themselves. You will not be happy with the status quo and will strive passionately to challenge, advance, and refine our collective successes and our people. You will actively advocate for quality being everyone's responsibility, and embed better automation practices, with a strong 'Test Pyramid' focus as well as a collaborative, cross-functional approach. Your consideration of quality extends beyond functional behaviour, encompassing non-functional capability such as performance and security. You will be technically competent; able to direct and contribute from a demonstrable position of knowledge. You will embody CDL's values and be an ambassador for the company both internally and externally, with an active presence in the Testing community which in turn enables you to feed industry advances into our everyday working. What you'll do Collaborative contribution to complex software deliveries and projects, including devising the approach to embed Quality and automated tests from the outset Support teams in the setup and configuration of automated tests in Continuous Delivery pipelines Leadership of other roles in matters of Automation, Agile, Quality and Testing Coaching, training, and mentoring of other roles in automation approach and skills Act as a role model and inspiration for all testing roles Hands-on automated testing activity, including assisting with the creation of stubs, mocks, and drivers Close collaboration with counterparts in other teams/departments to deliver common goals Implementation of key automation initiatives, and support of other key initiatives required, to deliver the Testing Vision Contribute to the shape and focus of the Automation Strategy Evangelism and promotion of the Vision and Automation Strategy to other departments and roles Support a customer-minded focus to our delivery approach, including understanding and advocating our customers' wants and needs Liaise with customers to foster strong collaborative partnerships and provide a degree of consulting/advice for their approaches when required An established active profile (or willingness to build an active profile) in the wider/external Testing community Act as an ambassador of CDL and CDL's values both internally and externally Cultivate an enjoyable, enthusiastic, and fun working culture To be involved in the entire Software Delivery Lifecycle To prevent the creation of defects in our software To work proactively to instil quality into our products and practices To embed modern testing and automation approaches as a part of a whole-team responsibility for quality To communicate and collaborate effectively in an Agile environment To drive an automation approach with the Test Pyramid in mind

Product Owner CDL is one of the UK's leading insurance software houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a strong track record in the high volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. 600+ staff are based at our campus in Stockport, purpose built and boasting facilities such as a subsidised restaurant and games room, and our long history and privately owned status mean a strong sense of identity and community. What are the key activities of this role? Be a passionate ambassador for the product; possess a profound understanding of our customer and end user needs Inspire and support the software delivery team in their quest to delight customers through high value deliverables Maximise and communicate the value and ROI of the product and the work of the software delivery team Possess the ability to question solutions offered up by your development team. Consider viability and value not only internally but to our clients-own the product Enable software delivery by ensuring that the teams understand how their work enables the execution of the requests made of them Own the Product backlog, prioritising to maximise reward in the form of business value, managing stakeholder (Client and internal) needs for development and CR's measuring, uncertainty and risk Ensure that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all and understood by the software delivery team to the level needed and shows what the team will work on next Forecast and communicate product roadmap and release projections Be a team player always learning and listening to others around and considering their opinions Propose ways to collect interpret and improve objective, verifiable evidence to measure the value delivered through product deliverables. Provide demonstrations of new ideas and features to stakeholders and sponsors Demonstrate leadership skills Bring fresh new ideas to the PO team from past experience

Platform Engineer Are you a Platform Engineer who enjoys working with the latest technologies in a fast paced, challenging environment? Do you have a talent for troubleshooting problems, delivering new and innovative solutions, a desire to learn and develop yourself whilst supporting others? We are looking for a Platform Engineer to support our flag ship Strata applications and components. You'll build, deploy and support environments and applications. We are a fast-paced operations team, responsible for building, configuring, monitoring and supporting solutions from development through to production. Automation is key to everything we do and we're looking for individuals to help us deliver this, you will use tools such as Puppet, Vagrant, Jenkins, Kubernetes and Elastic for a start. You'll be working alongside developers to help maintain a smooth delivery pipeline, project managers to deliver innovative solutions and service management to ensure solutions meet our clients expectations. You'll be involved in: Developing, enhancing and supporting our cloud solutions, ensuring our cloud solutions are robust enough to be destroyed and re-built overnight without anyone noticing. Developing, enhancing and supporting our on-prem and self-hosted solutions, providing seamless service. Supporting LIVE clients with the aim to resolve issues as promptly as possible but with an eye on making things better. Using Elastic you will monitor platforms to ensure we have as much information available as early as possible. Supporting clients out of hours with Severity 1 issues and play your part in delivering upgrades throughout the night About us: CDL is one of the UK's leading insurance software houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a strong track record in the high volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. We've built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We like to work in small, focused groups so you're always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of each project you are involved with.

Junior Front End Developer CDL is one of the UK's leading insurance software houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a strong track record in the high volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. There is also a subsidised restaurant and a games room. We have built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We like to work in small, focused groups so you are always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of each project you are involved with. WHAT YOU'LL DO Do you like solving problems and have the tenacity to overcome any difficulties put in your path? You will be an innovator who aspires to being the best whilst conceptualising, creating enhancement of websites. You will adore writing code and be committed to helping your product owner achieve their ideals. You will create web solutions, whilst collaborating with your team members working in an Agile driven environment. This is an ideal role for an enthusiastic junior level developer to join a fast-paced organisation, focusing on front-end technologies, progressing their career and learning new technologies along the way.