Ian Goddard
Senior QA Manager at Hudl
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Goddard is a Senior QA Manager based in the UK with nine years of hands-on experience building and leading quality engineering for consumer-facing web, mobile and connected-device products. He has progressed from hands-on test engineering and conformance certification to leading SDET teams and interim Head of QA roles at companies like DAZN, Napster Group and Hudl, with deep expertise in front-end automation (WDIO, Cypress), playback/video testing and API certification regimes. Ian combines pragmatic test tooling refactors with process and release governance, and has repeatedly been seconded to teams to drive testing best practices and uplift engineering maturity. His background in audio and music technology and early work on standards and ISO accreditation gives him a particular strength in rigorous, standards-driven testing and cross-team stakeholder coaching. Despite a laconic GitHub bio, his career shows a consistent pattern of turning ad-hoc test suites into maintainable automation and certification programs that scale.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Audio and Music Technology, Audio Engineering, Diploma, Audio and Music Technology, Audio Engineering, Diploma at University of the West of EnglandKing Edward VI School, Southampton
English, Spanish
Github Skills (25)
otto9
playback9
vod8
mse8
video-player8
drm8
player7
video-streaming7
python6
javascript6
offline-mode6
conversations5
html5-audio5
github-app5
live-streaming5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Alpenglow88/Ancasta
Feb 2018 - Aug 2023
RESTful API testing framework using RSpec and Rake
Contributions:8 PRs, 21 pushes, 9 branches in 5 years 6 months
apiraketesting-frameworktestingrestful
Alpenglow88/otto-test-site
Apr 2020 - Jul 2023
An app for learning and teaching automation using oTTo (https://github.com/Alpenglow88/oTTo) or any other automation tool
Contributions:54 PRs, 91 pushes, 57 branches in 3 years 3 months
teachingautomationotto
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