Adam Howard Email & Phone Number

Wellington, New Zealand

Wellington, New Zealand

In addition to continuing to lead the Quality Engineering Enablement team, I took on both people and engineering leadership responsibilities for two additional teams. One of those automates the provision of exemplary skeleton components for product engineering teams, and the other owns and maintains our common front end platform through which Single Page.

Wellington, New Zealand

I built and led a Quality Engineering Enablement team at Xero. In doing so, I developed and executed an enablement model to allow us to influence and build capability at scale across the organisation.This included defining great quality engineering practices (through shared principles, an aspirational vision, fundamental standards, and metrics); enabling.

Wellington, New Zealand

I joined Xero as a Principal Engineer in the Engineering Practice group, charged with uplifting the quality engineering capability in the organisation.I set about building a community of practice around quality engineering; devising a quality engineering vision for teams to work towards; and establishing a Quality Engineering Standard as part of Xero’s.

Wellington, New Zealand

At some point "Test Practice Manager" became "Engineering Practice Manager", although this largely reflected that my role had already spilled some way beyond the bounds of just testing practice.Most notably, I helped establish and hire for a dedicated Security function; designed and oversaw our incident management playbook; managed our test environments.

Wellington, New Zealand

As Test Practice Manager at Trade Me, I was responsible for the development of testing practices across NZ's largest online marketplace. This was an incredibly diverse and enjoyable role that included driving our overall testing strategy as part of our wider engineering leadership team, nurturing the Test Guild community, designing and running training and.

Wellington, New Zealand

As Test Chapter Lead for Marketplace, my role was to help the merry band of testers who look after the buying and selling of general items on the site to keep developing the way they performed testing and collaborated with their agile delivery teams.This included day to day leadership, coaching and advice, regular weekly sessions as a chapter, and the.

Wellington, New Zealand

I joined Assurity as part of their Graduate Programme in 2011 and, through my contribution to a number of large scale projects, quickly developed a broad range of testing and leadership skills, performing project roles as a Test Analyst, Senior Test Analyst, Test Lead and Test Manager.I was also actively involved in developing the Lean Testing practice.

Wellington, New Zealand

Wellington, New Zealand

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As a passionate football fan, I felt there to be a dearth of intelligent and well reasoned commentary on the sport available online.As such, I took up the task of writing unbiased and thoughtful essay-style articles on all aspects of the sport for my own website, which was at one time ranked the 17th most influential English Premier League site on the.

Wellington, New Zealand

I was engaged as a research assistant to gather and collate data for a Health Sponsorship Council investigation into motorcycle activity around intersections in Wellington city, with a view to trying to reduce the number of collisions between motorcycles and cars.To this end, I conducted observations at five identified hot spots around Wellington, before.

Wellington, New Zealand

I was engaged by Victoria University's Disability Services to act as a professional note-taker for students suffering from disabilities, having previously been involved as a volunteer.In particular, I worked alongside deaf students and used electronic note-taking technology to provide real-time, verbatim transcriptions of lectures, enabling them to.