Bex Bradley Email & Phone Number

Newry, Gb

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Freelance Physical Science academic paper editor providing language and other publication support services to authors across the globe. Clients are predominantly researchers whose first language is not English.- Edit manuscripts such that the final text is in standard scientific English and free of unclear or unidiomatic sentences, allowing the research to be received and reviewed without the language being a barrier. Adhering to job-specific instructions and formatting manuscripts according to the target journal requirements, as necessary.- Current stats: Quality Index 3.69 out of 4, 78% of rated assignments received an outstanding client rating.

Seattle, Washington

- Established an agile software development process to provide transparency into the day to day and backlog of work. Customized Jira workflows and issues to better reflect and support this process improvement. - Facilitated daily stand-ups to monitor project progress and resolve any issues the team may be experiencing. Ran Sprint Planning, Retrospectives, and backlog grooming meetings to strategize and plan future releases. - Coordinated with Membership and Data teams to devise a streamlined donation user experience on the new KCTS9.org website, which achieved 40% higher donation completions than the old experience. - Accountable for PCI Compliance for the new donation experience, assessing needs and working with the internal PCI compliance team to understand current policies and procedures. Authoring and updating documentation as needed. - Defined a test plan for the new website, analyzing telemetry data from the previous site to create a matrix of test scenarios to provide coverage on high use devices and browsers to ensure quality UX, while reducing overall test time.

Greater Seattle Area

Spearheaded the use of Azure DevOps Kanban boards for Test task tracking across the entire Casual Games portfolio; ensuring all work was visible, no asks were lost, and concurrent work could be prioritized easily during Daily Stand Up Meetings. Consequently, improving efficiency and effectiveness of the test team working on multiple projects at different stages simultaneously; resulting in improved confidence with our partner production teams. Formalized the test plans (including staffing plans, timelines, milestone acceptance deliverables, test procedures, test automation and test tool strategy, and compliance strategies) for a variety of projects (small budget to AAA) and oversaw their execution. Used data to create dashboards and thresholds to identify project risk and communicate recommendations and updates to stakeholders. Supervised Full-Time Employees and Contract Vendors teams (both onsite and offsite), ensuring work was completed accurately, efficiently, and at high quality. Pushing for a data-driven test approach – using data analysis of test telemetry to aid test coverage decisions. Collaborated with Production teams on efficient release planning for EaaS projects – utilizing bug glide projections and burn down charts to drive effective triage and improve planning sessions. Liaised with the User Research team to ensure issues found during user research efforts were bugged as needed, but to also build better more accurate user personas for test scenarios. Coordinated test integration & strategy for Xbox One console launch. Identified and worked directly with the Xbox Platform team to fix system-level bugs. Regularly requested by other test managers/leaders to join their product to assist them in releasing an ailing project. Primarily asked to organize and standardize release processes, improve bug health, prepare certification efforts, and improve relationships with production partners through better status reporting and overall communication.

Greater Seattle Area

- Owned all aspects of testing and planning, including coordination of automation and tool creation, for specific features of projects. - Proactively coordinated the execution of test cases and reported the test status to project test lead. Working closely with contingent staff reports and other contingent staff groups to effectively leverage their skills and keep them unblocked. - Executed more in-depth functional test investigations and helped troubleshoot issues found within the products. Escalating and collaborating where needed with platform teams. - Clearly and effectively communicated complex issues to the development, design, and management teams.- Researched and coordinated the use of new testing methodologies to optimize product coverage and quality.

Reading, United Kingdom

Fast track training program that equips participants with industry-leading skills and know-how.- Training covered skills surrounding Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Active Directory, Network infrastructures and security) and programming (Visual C#.NET 2.0, ASP.NET and SQL Server 2005). Soft skills training undertaken included Consulting 101, presentation skills, team building and leadership.- Personal performance: ranked top 3 out of 53 that comprise the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, & Africa) Technical graduate group across all training.