Currently working as a test consultant at Chubb insurance. delivering UAT management to the release of core systems across EMEA, and consulting on the development of a UAT framework that aligns efforts between product owners and project managers across the business. Previously at PPL on the Lloyds of London 'Next Gen' project. Aidan's role as test and insurance SME seconded to the third party software supplier as an intrinsic part of their agile sprint team.A test team manager and test lead with 20 years’ experience around testing, software implementation, and resource management. Aidan has a successful track record in establishing new teams and processes in organizations. Aidan has experience of leading offshore and distributed testing as well as being a member of the IT management team. He has worked on a variety of in house development projects as well as legacy upgrades involving 3rd party software and Data migrations. Most of this experience is in the insurance sector with additional experience of software implementation projects in charitable and public sectors.TESTING SKILLS• Experience of testing and QA across the full Software Development Life Cycle (Agile methodologies using scrum /kanban , Iterative hybrid developments using sprints to more traditional phased approaches such as static review, SIT, UAT, OAT and Release management.)• Test Strategy & Planning, test analysis, design, static review, including documentation, reporting. • Data Migration (involving use of SQL, Fileaid, Beyond Compare)• Defect Management (involving Jira, ALM/QC, Bugzilla, TFS)• Experienced, effective team lead and test manager.• Documentation: test scripts and defects, test plans, delivery reports and strategy documents including the use of HP QC(ALM), TFS (VSTS) and Cucumber for requirements management and test coverage analysis.• Methodologies: Familiar with Waterfall and Agile methodologies, ( as applied to 3rd party upgrades, legacy systems and in-house development teams)
Listed skills include System Testing, Test Management, User Acceptance Testing, Testing, and 45 others.