Andy Edgar Email & Phone Number

I am an ISEB certified Senior Test Engineer with demonstrable experience of the private and public sectors. I have over 16 years working as a professional test analyst backed by 15 years experience of scientific method. Throughout my career I have gained considerable exposure to various technologies, systems and validation exercises. I possess a thorough.

Personal ProjectThroughout the COVID furlough of 2020-2021, I have been the primary carer for a vulnerable family member, a role no longer required as the risks have markedly diminished. During this time I have developed a new skill set in 3D Graphic Design (Blender) and downstream implementation by 3D printers as a form of rapid-prototyping. I am pleased.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Fashion Rider (https://fashionrider.com/) Technical Uplift, Revised User Experience, Accessibility Business and Software Test AnalystThe client was undertaking a grass-roots overhaul of the implementation in order to take advantage of emergent technologies and better complement a revised business model.Initially engaged to lend insight as a Business.

Corby, England, United Kingdom

• Project: Control Tower – Track and TraceRole: Senior Software Test Analyst Project Model: AgileTest Lead responsible for the test design, execution and defect management phases of the SOA solution for the Track and.
• Ready API – SoapUI, LoadUI (SOAP, REST)
• xmlSpy
• Test Rail
• JTRAC
• JIRA

Preston, England, United Kingdom

I sometimes take protracted time off between contracts to undertake personal projects; most aren’t relevant to a CV e.g. exploring the dive sites of West Scotland. However as this was a particularly long period and perhaps of some interest it warrants a mention, quite simply, I took the time to write a novel.

Corby, England, United Kingdom

• Projects: Services Framework. Global Compliance Solution. Global PlanningRole: Senior Software Test Analyst Project Model: Agile and WaterfallServices Framework: The SOA Governance provides a global framework for.
• Ready API – SoapUI, LoadUI (SOAP, REST)
• xmlSpy
• Test Rail
• JTRAC
• JIRA

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

• For this role I returned to a client I’d previously been engaged with as a business analyst but this time the requirement from the client was to assess accessibility and usability of the website and a thorough review.
• Requirements analysis
• Browser compliance (IE, Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari)
• Accessibility and Usability Testing
• Defect management and prioritisation

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

• Project: Vantage ProgrammeRole: Senior Test AnalystProject Model: Agile and WaterfallThe Open University was undertaking an extensive technical uplift of its existing IT services whilst developing and incorporating new.
• Requirements analysis
• Risk analysis and defect prioritisation
• Load testing and analysis using LoadUI
• Service and Service Operation testing using SoapUI
• Test analysis, scripting and execution with documentation throughout the entire test cycle.Technology:

• Project: Serco – Prisoner Escort and Custody ServiceRole: Test ManagerProject Model: AgileInitially engaged as Test Lead and soon after, Test Manager, this project proved to be one of the most challenging in my career..
• UAT requirements analysis.
• Liaison with business users and mentoring of end users.
• Risk analysis and defect prioritisation.
• Reporting and progress assessments, especially paramount as the PMO was off-site.Achievements:
• Initiated and hosted workshops with the business.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

• Project: E-Commerce WebsiteRole: Business AnalystFor this role I was engaged to help consolidate the client’s ideas for a commercial website into a comprehensive business model. Central to the brief was a requirement.
• Requirements analysis.
• Website storyboards and Use Case modelling.
• Development prioritisation and scalability modelling.

Hemel Hempstead, England, United Kingdom

• Project: Trusted Borders Role: Software Test AnalystProject Model: “V” and Agile A Central Government SOA project for Trusted Borders. The project objective was to create an event-driven and standards-based messaging.
• Requirements analysis.
• Formulation of the Test Design specification using a variety of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Tools (COTS).
• Writing test harness scripts for SOAPUI and configuring Mock Services.
• XML/XSD and WSDL schema validation.
• Manufacturing of Test Data.

Hemel Hempstead, England, United Kingdom

• Project: ProgressRole: Business Analyst and Software Test AnalystProject Models: Waterfall, "V"During this period, I acted as a Business Analyst and as a Software Engineer in the development of a bespoke web portal.
• Requirements analysis; grooming and prioritisation of the requirements.
• Use Case modelling.
• Framework formulation for the Test Execution phase using Quality Centre, notably Test Director.
• Test execution;
• Full test lifecycle; from Component, Integration, Security through to End to End System Testing.

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

Role: IT Consultant and Software Test AnalystI entered the IT industry as a permanent employee of the solutions company, FDM Group. Working for FDM enabled me to gain an awareness of a diverse range of IT disciplines (UNIX, HTML, Oracle and SQL, JavaScript, Java and Testing Methodologies) and in addition to in-house project work I was also deployed as an.

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

• Client: VODAFONE (April to December 2006)Domain: TelecommunicationsRole: Software Test AnalystProject Model: “V”An integration project written primarily for the Vodafone Configuration Warehouse, this was part of their.
• HP Quality Centre and Test Director
• Unix
• Oracle with TOAD and PL/SQL

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

• Client: HEWITT BACON & WOODROW (April to October 2005)Domain: Pension AdministrationRole: Database ConsultantProject Model: Waterfall The project objective was the migration of all the company pension data from an.
• Unix
• SQL