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Newark-On-Trent, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for introduction of SAFe Methodology at TFA, as well as all delivery within the release train including Pega, Digital and Integrations.

Delivery Manager role in the Marketing Sales & End User Service Team at nbn. MSEU covers applications and infrastructure such as the corporate website, iCRM, marketing and data management solutions as well as other connecting infrastructure.In this role I am responsible for delivery across the overall Service Team spanning 8 teams. I also managed the budget to ensure that all capabilities are delivered on time and to cost.Earlier roles at nbn include:- Iteration Manager working within Migrations & Disconnections - delivery of multiple capabilities for the Subscriber Commercial and Telstra Commercial areas, including Telstra and Optus Payment Assurance, Telstra Damage Claims, DRSI and Lease Restatement.- Test Manager – Payment Assurance and Address Matching applicationsMain Responsibilities:- Management of Service Team including 8 delivery teams- Management of budget- End to end delivery of solutions into production environment- Governance and stakeholder management- Creation and analysis of metrics to identify improvement opportunities and maximise efficiency- Delivery & dependency management- SAFe SCRUM Master and promotion of SAFe methodology across IT and business team

Sydney, Australia

Key engagements through Planit at Test Manager level included:- Lend Lease: Non Functional Test Manager- Test Consultant: Dept of Early Education & Childhood Development- Test Consultant: Keycorp- Test Manager: Businesslink / FACS - Test Manager: National Broadband Network

Chester, United Kingdom

Re-joined M&S Bank at the beginning of their Bank Delivery program to develop and deliver a Test Strategy which drove significant risk reduction but was in keeping with budgets and brand values.Main Responsibilities:- Test Management for a key strategic program to launch the new M&S Bank and related products- Management of up to twenty on and offshore resources- Home base management of internal M&S Bank resource which included monthly one to one progress meetings and performance management- Progress reporting to senior stakeholders across the M&S Bank, M&S Retail and HSBC organisations- Creation of program Test Strategy covering both functional and nonfunctional test requirements- Overall responsibility for the delivery of Test Plan documentation and subsequent test execution across eight separate workstreams

London, United Kingdom

Joined Lloyds Banking Group following their merger with the HBOS Group to develop and deliver a program of Non-Functional testing to prove the capabilities of their new combined ATM and POS estate.Main Responsibilities:- Delivery of VTAS Automation solution to prove performance of the end to end solution across the entire infrastructure- Creation and delivery of Test Strategy to fulfil all performance, stress, resilience, security and operational acceptance requirements- Management of NFT test team both on and off-shore to ensure successful test script creation and execution- Reporting of metrics including incident resolution and progress against plan to immediate management and senior stakeholders- Ensured that all test plans, scripts and simulator test libraries could be reused for future releases and automated where required

Cheshire

Engaged by Barclays Bank to deliver a Non Functional Test Strategy to prove an installation of BASE24 on their new Tandem server.Main Responsibilities:- Creation of Test Plan to fulfil all performance, stress, resilience and operational acceptance requirements- Management of on and off-shore test team to ensure successful test script creation and test execution- Creation of Test Strategy to prove BASE24 application on Tandem server including its supporting infrastructure and middleware (specifically connection of ATM to new VPN) and downstream end to end testing in conjunction with their mainframe host operating system- Reporting of metrics including incident resolution and progress against plan to immediate management and senior stakeholders- Ensured that all test plans, scripts and simulator test libraries could be reused for future releases and automated where required

Watford, United Kingdom

Assignments:National Bank of Kuwait - Test ConsultantCentral Bank of the United Arab Emirates - Test ConsultantWorking as a Test Consultant for ACI Worldwide, I worked onsite at CBUAE in Abu Dhabi to develop a functional test plan to prove their delivery of the ON/2 transaction switch.Main Responsibilities:- Creation of Test Strategy, Test Plan for the CBUAE hosted UAESWITCH (ON/2) transaction switch, interfacing with all middle-eastern payment schemes- Introduction of automation via delivery of ASSET simulator and Test Pack for onsite client use- Worked onsite at CBUAE to ensure all solution features and subsequent test requirements were understood and incorporated into test plan- Creation of Certification Test Requirements which all CBUAE member banks had to fulfil before going live on the UAESWITCH

Chester, United Kingdom

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Nottingham, United Kingdom