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I managed the QA team responsible for testing several major, business critical market data products from project initiation to go-live and ongoing maintenance cycles. Working closely with globally distributed business users, development and application support teams, my team and I produced detailed test plans and test cases using requirements and design documents as our baseline. Aiming for 100% coverage, we fully automated the test cases to ensure our products were delivered quickly into… Show more I managed the QA team responsible for testing several major, business critical market data products from project initiation to go-live and ongoing maintenance cycles. Working closely with globally distributed business users, development and application support teams, my team and I produced detailed test plans and test cases using requirements and design documents as our baseline. Aiming for 100% coverage, we fully automated the test cases to ensure our products were delivered quickly into production with minimal levels of defect leakage. Show less

As Build and Release Team Lead, I was responsible for all global software releases developed in the Belfast office. Covering 3 main regions: Europe, Asia and the US, I ensured that the evolving B&R policies were adhered to and kept the whole B&R process as streamlined and seamless as possible. Working closely with Client Services, Development and QA, we followed a 2 week maintenance release cycle, building and releasing software to 50+ high profile financial organisations, with a portfolio of… Show more As Build and Release Team Lead, I was responsible for all global software releases developed in the Belfast office. Covering 3 main regions: Europe, Asia and the US, I ensured that the evolving B&R policies were adhered to and kept the whole B&R process as streamlined and seamless as possible. Working closely with Client Services, Development and QA, we followed a 2 week maintenance release cycle, building and releasing software to 50+ high profile financial organisations, with a portfolio of 250+ products across many technology sets and market segments. Outside the scheduled releases we handled last minute exchange driven changes, new products, internal software releases, build support and troubleshooting. Code versioning and source control were also within my remit, co-ordinating code freezes and the subsequent branching of code using CVS and relaying all relevant information to the other teams. Show less

Responsible for QA, build and release of several XDP market solutions.

Responsible for the creation and maintenance of testing standards, improvement initiatives and knowledge sharing activities. Worked on several projects in a test lead or test consultant capacity including:Telecoms and retail CRM applicationsSpeech recognition applicationsDiary synchronisation softwareConsolidated mortgage applicationCustomer data consolidation softwareTicketless travel system