Benjamin Davis Email & Phone Number

Kent, England, United Kingdom

• Deliver comprehensive software testing and business agility services to clients across diverse industries
• Lead hands-on Scrum, Project management, Delivery management and Testing efforts, ensuring high-quality standards and timely delivery
• Develop strategic approach to optimise processes and achieve business objectives
• Mentor staff members, enhancing their skills and fostering professional growth
• Provide expert insights and recommendations on agility, testing practices and methodologies
• Conduct thorough analysis to identify areas for improvement and present actionable recommendations

London, England Metropolitan Area

• Testing consultant: Joyfully Agile Ltd client.
• Collaborated with multiple cross-functional teams in the successful delivery of three new (web and mobile) products for high-profile clients, while also implementing significant updates to three existing products
• Analysed company practices and processes and successfully influenced teams to adopt my recommendations on the following key areas: Definitions of Done. Establishing a single source of truth for documentation..
• Developed and delivered detailed Test Strategies and Plans for each Project
• Conducted careful reviews of documents and designs
• Developed and maintained comprehensive test suites, which were utilized for Client Acceptance Testing and User Acceptance Testing

London, United Kingdom

• Built Play’s QA department from the ground up. Owned and drove Agile Testing strategy across 21 multi-platform B2B and B2C software products/projects, spanning iOS, Android, Web, Mobile Web, Ionic and React Native
• Project Manager on multiple (award winning) Products built for Bupa, British Gas, Harrow Council, PwC, Thames Water and Unilever
• Played a pivotal role in cultivating a positive and inclusive work environment and shaping a distinctive company culture
• Hired, managed, coached and mentored 3 Senior Testers. Fostering their professional growth and enhancing their skills
• Led the testing of 18 successful products/projects
• Developed and maintained regression test suites

London, England, United Kingdom

Joyfully Agile Ltd client.See Project section for details of work.

Hammersmith, London

• Formulated and drove QA strategy across five platforms (iOS, Android, Amazon, Web and Facebook Canvas) including the maintenance of seven live titles
• Set-up and managed testing for two new social gambling titles (including integration with Tango network); which were simultaneously launched across all platforms
• Managed and developed nine QA resources, including relationship with external testing-house, improving efficiency and autonomy
• Carried out performance evaluation of local and remote QA personnel
• Repaired and greatly improved relationship between existing Development and remote QA team (which included Customer Services based in Lebanon)
• Improved communication and cooperation with Product Owner (PO) group over project quality, testing progress (adding risk analysis reports and project stats/metrics,), increasing confidence in QA Team and end product

Sloane Square, London

• Playfish part of EA (Electronic Arts)
• Hired, lead, mentored and coached an internal test team of 8 and managed around 10 external testers (based in China and India). All 8 of whom transitioned to higher roles after leaving Playfish
• Championed new practices (continuous improvement), allowing the Test Team to have greater confidence in what they were delivering, including: swarming, risk analysis, max test coverage with limited time
• Designed and implemented Hotfix procedures for the entire team
• Designed a tool for XML coders, ensuring content was not overwritten – reducing crashes and QA effort
• Cultivated a culture of inclusiveness, learning, trust, safety and high moral, by celebrating success, combating bullying and giving individuals space to develop new skills in a safe-to-fail environment

• Highlights:
• Lead Tester for the Bafta Award nominated: The Sims Social (a Facebook version of The Sims for PC). From design, to release and beyond; which at its peak averaged 66 million Monthly Active Users
• This was during a turbulent time where the company was experiencing many growing pains associated with transitioning from an indie studio to an industry leader, and dealing with a recent takeover by EA. All teams were.
• Worked on two other Bafta nominated titles
• Achieved a great understanding of the challenges of running a popular live title 24/7
• Gained great insight into the advantages and disadvantages of different development practices

• Project Manager: Managing two senior Devs, a QA Manager and Tester
• Primarily charged with managing Glu’s multi-million dollar Embed Programme in Europe and APAC
• Simultaneously managed multiple opportunities (from inception to final delivery) on multiple devices, requiring different customization, drop dates and documentation.
• Developed and maintained increasingly healthy relationship with clients; helping to guarantee future revenue opportunities and further flexibility
• Worked closely with 16+ different phone manufacturers (Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, HTC), 55 carriers (Vodafone, Orange, Telefonica, Three, T-Mobile), and 3rd party companies (Accumulate, Zeemote, Babel.
• Within one year personally administered over 550 opportunities; 98% were completed on-time and to correct specification. Generating millions of downloads and significant revenue for the company

London, England, United Kingdom

QA Manager of Glu Mobile. Leading up a 12-man team.Entire game history & Glu Mobile:Lead Tester:Who Wants to be a Millionaire(3, 4, 5) localisedFrantic Factory. Medieval Total War Mobile.Monopoly Here & Now – created and tested 2,300 localized sku’s.Project Gotham Racing.Solitaire Pop Lead Publisher tester:Quantum of SolaceTransformers QA of ported.

London, England, United Kingdom

Console and PC testing:Championship Manager 05/06 – PSP (1 month)Commando’s Strike Force – XBOX (4 months)Imperial Glory – PC (2 months)Championship Manager 5 – PC (2 months)Championship Manager Online – PC (4 months)Short period testing on: (Not credited) (2003 – 2005)Crash and Burn – XBOXConflict Global Terror – XBOXConflict Global Terror – PCTotal.