Strong Entries:

• Emphasised the business importance and criticality of the project, and clearly identified what was innovative about the approach being adopted.
• Focused on security testing and gave detail on tool evaluation, plus approach to overcoming challenges. Good integration in to delivery and security testing principles.
• Clear project goals coupled with quantified outcomes/successes; adaptability to mitigate unexpected challenges/risks and the utilisation of a wide variety of testing approaches and techniques that aligned with the complexity of their environments.
• Very explicit in drawing out the use of Agile principles and how they were deployed and adapted throughout the project.  It is also valuable to have concrete examples of processes that worked well, and of lessons learned from mistakes.
• Shown the biggest number of treats/characteristics one would expect from someone with good people management and communication skills:  Mentorship (not only for people within his company), Coaching, being a role model, approachable and supportive, valued-respected-listened by people, dedicated to team well-being, focus on skilling people up.
• Evidence of overcoming challenges was clear, they have also described how they were committed to best practices and their selection of methodology to support their automation objectives along with evidences which made their application standing out from the rest.
• Cleary researched and implemented best tech to test ALL the system, NOT just the software based backend systems.
• Very clear evidence of the project methodology and justification of tech choices. Very clearly detailed description of understanding the Stakeholders needs, the importance of the project and the overall Goals. In addition employed a combination of technology to solve some very difficult problems. Demonstrated some very innovative use of tech to deliver a complete testing solution.
• Explained well the approach to selecting tools, and the reasons for selecting them. The selection of the tools themselves represent best practice test approaches, and the results speak for themselves.  In addition, the approach to synthetic data creation was good. The testing has clearly been challenging, and some of the unique solutions implemented, along with the clear narrative on the reason for the choice, are very exciting.
• Give context to metrics to fully justify their inclusion.