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United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Manchester, United Kingdom

Implemented Agile ways of working across the delivery and engineering teams and established the quality assurance function.Lead the quality and testing team across Checkd Media’s product suite including sports data and gaming.

Brisbane, Australia

Senior QA Engineer for Onthehouse.com.au, an Australian tech start-up that established itself as the fastest growing real estate website and subsequently acquired by CoreLogic, a California based property data analytics company.Led quality software processes for Onthehouse.com.au and introduced a testing strategy for the Data Platform holding 13 million property data profiles.Key quality assurance activities including feature testing, integration, regression, defect tracking, test reports and the creation of test strategy documents. Instrumental in creation of test environments.Utilised SQL Workbench and maintained automation test suite for the flagship website Onthehouse.com.au using Jenkins.Leveraged transformation tool Kettle for data import and validation, testing data store and data sources using tools such as PGAdmin with Postgres.Editing and execution of PHP scripts via Putty.

London, United Kingdom

Test Consultant and enabled the quality process for key digital products for high profile client PepsiCo via Velti.Advised on QA best practices and testing approach, defining the test strategy. Completed testing on both website and mobile applications, creating daily test reports and validating hundreds of backlogged items.Validated their digital marketing campaign including an online product and mobile application. Led initiative to review each test analyst's performance in Jira. Maintained Jira boards for the project team including defect management and compiling reports for various stakeholders. Provided instruction on best practices for defect management in Jira for team members.Provided guidance on QA best practices, testing approach and enhancing test methodology.

London, United Kingdom

Senior Test Engineer for the Financial Times, the leading global financial newspaper. Led the testing execution for the customisation and deployment for the FT's advertising platform based on Salesforce SaaS.Determined the test approach and provided visibility to key stakeholders via quality metrics dashboard. Became the Salesforce product expert for the test engineering community and trained test leads across the Technology unit who were using Salesforce for a variety of projects.

London, United Kingdom

Test Analyst for Britain's leading news brands, The Times and The Sun in the digital innovation group. Led software quality assurance activities for high profile digital products including The Times iPhone app, The Times iPad app and The Sun iPad app.Oversaw testing execution for The Times paywall including Identity Management and TimesPlus, the subscriber loyalty program.Test Manager for interim period during major product release phase.