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United Kingdom

Exeter, England, United Kingdom

Worked remotely in a large, collaborative Agile team responsible for testing multiple deliverables across a broad estate of integrated technologies including front end, web based UI applications, workflow systems, Oracle CRM application and OEBS financial premium collection application. The team comprised of developers, business reps and testers across internal and outsourced offshore resource. Responsible for coordinating all aspects of testing including stakeholder management.

Exeter, England, United Kingdom

Initially worked as a member of a test team allocated across various waterfall projects until the organisation transitioned across to delivery via the Agile methodology across four teams with a three-week sprint cycle. The allocated team’s product vision was to reduce the technical debt in the workflow platform by introducing infrastructure improvements, automation of manual end user processes, application functional change and supporting non-functional change. The core team, located across Europe and India consisted of eight developers across various technologies, business representatives and a single test analyst.

Exeter, England, United Kingdom

Attained a secondment role as a functional tester and was subsequently successful in applying for a permanent role as a member of a well-established, experienced Test team working predominantly in the Waterfall Methodology. Allocated to projects delivering a variety of change with support and guidance from a Senior Test Analyst. Contributed to test planning, test preparation, test execution & test closure items for system, integration, regression or user acceptance testing across the full estate including, workflow, policy management, claims management, premium collection integration, front end application systems (portals, aggregators, 3rd party web based applications)

Exeter, England, United Kingdom

Monitored and analysed operational activities and challenge the status quo to help improve efficiency and resolve issues. Facilitated recommendations to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of customer and people’s experienceDesigned and tested potential process changes by working collaboratively with key stakeholders and those affected to ensure successful implementation including supporting the coordination of change delivery and benefit realisation. Facilitated User Acceptance and Post Implementation testing. An example is creation of a base Post Implementation Testing template to improve coverage and confidence following project releases which was adopted as a minimum standard across LV= Life Protection. Supported and represented Protection Customer Experience in process and IT system change through planning, defining, testing, deployment, operational readiness and BAU activity including Waterfall and Agile methodology. A strong understanding of SDLC with the responsibility of signing off Business Requirement and Functional Specification documents on allocated Strategic Investment Projects.

Higher National Diploma - Business Management.

2 A-Levels.

8 Gcses