Annamarie Howells Email & Phone Number

Strong time management and prioritisation skills, I can be relied upon to complete tasks on time, delegate tasks when required and keen to take on additional work and challenges. Great attention to detail strengthened during my work as a tester on highly customisable software. This ability was founded on a strong numerical and analytical basis throughout my education, with an emphasis on logical reasoning and data analysis.Interpersonal skills: strong communication and presentation skills; ability to build relationships with all kinds of people, acquired through an international background, university education, and working with various teams at a leading software company.Team player with leadership skills: worked in an agile team often as a sole QA, or lead QA managing QA team members and organising QA tasks. Have started taking on scrum lead type tasks and studying towards PSM I certification.

Listed skills include Mathematics, Computer Proficiency, Digital Photography, Video Editing, and 35 others.

• 

  Senior Qa Analyst

  Pulselive

  Apr 2022 - Present

  ● Achieved promotion due to the impactful contributions to projects & processes.● Continuous lead on World Rugby programme, while handing over other projects andstarting to lead a new programme: MotoGP.● Helped successfully deliver○ RWC 7s 2022: website for a 3 day tournament○ RWC 2021 (played in 2022): website and applications for the Women’s RugbyWorld cup in New Zealand○ 2021-2023: Rugby sports data third party system upgrade. A project spanningover 2 years where the aim was to provide a seamless transition from 2.0 system to 3.0 system. Used Postman tool to test the APIs, by creating a regression pack for 2.0 and comparing against 3.0. This helped identify issues earlier and become a point person for data related questions.○ RWC 2023: website and applications for the Men’s Rugby World Cup in France○ WXV: website for a new women’s tournament○ SVNS: website and applications for the new Sevens Series● Lead on MotoGP (from August 2022 - current), working closely with Dorna Sports internal QA team and stakeholders during QA, UAT and go live phases of the project for both website and applications. Mentoring and task managing multiple QA team members, allowing them to take more responsibility in a structure that promoted best practices in an agile team.● Participated in internal steer-co meetings to highlight areas of risk, discuss current quality status and speak towards go/no-go decisions. Worked together with management to formulate an achievable go-live plan ahead of deadlines.● Line managing a Junior QA Analyst (from July 2022 - current) and being involved in the recruitment process for various other team members.● Responsible for: QA resourcing on my accounts; covering for other leads during annual leave; contributing to senior QA group decision making.● High level familiarisation and work with automation using tools such as Postman and Cypress.