Greg Duckworth
Engineering Manager at Nearform
Blackburn, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGreg Duckworth is an experienced Engineering Manager with 12 years delivering test-led quality and scalable web services across large organisations like Nearform and the BBC. He combines hands-on automation skills in NodeJS, Ruby and Python with leadership of teams up to 26 engineers, driving promotions and creating career frameworks for test engineers. At the BBC he accelerated delivery from multi-day releases to multiple automated deployments per day and introduced performance and AWS metrics validation for services handling extreme load. At Nearform he established a company-wide testing standard, founded an internal Testing Community, and successfully stepped into late-stage delivery roles to restore stakeholder confidence. Greg’s background spans full lifecycle testing, CI/CD, and cross-discipline coaching, and he has a practical knack for turning manual testers into automation-capable engineers. Based in Blackburn, he brings a pragmatic, people-first approach to embedding sustainable quality practices in fast-moving projects.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Games Development, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Games Development at University of Central Lancashire
Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
gregoryduckworth/GoogleGeocode-HASS
Sep 2019 - Feb 2022
Google Location for HASS using the Google Geocode API
Contributions:12 releases, 1 review, 18 commits in 2 years 5 months
apigoogle-geocode-apigooglegeocodinggoogle-geocode
nearform/testing-playground
Oct 2023 - Dec 2024
Playground that you can use to practice test automation
Contributions:15 reviews, 52 PRs, 82 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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