Steve Blundell Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Remote

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Swindon, United Kingdom

Managing defects at Programme Level on IDV&A for PSD2 regulatory programme.Responsible for the coordination of Defect Management activities including governance, training and metrics production throughout the project lifecycle. Also includes Warranty Incident Management.

Gloucester, United Kingdom

Swindon - Wakefield House

Responsible for the coordination of Defect Management activities on the Banking App Programme across several geographic locations. This includes governance, training and metrics production throughout the project lifecycle including live proving activities including Warranty Incident Management. Also responsible for quality assessment of requirements exported into the ALM module.

Cirencester

Defect Management and process governance on the SJP Platform Programme. Also responsible for Defect and Testing MI coordination and production.

Wakefield House, Swindon

Management of software defects and Incidents and overall governance of the Defect Management Process. Responsible for administering Quality Center and production of project defect reports and metrics. Sole Defect Manager for the Back Book Migration project which migrated over 5 million accounts to the new SAP Banking platform. For the last 9 months of the project was also responsible for tracking and managing the Incidents raised off the back of each migration event via reporting and triages… Show more Management of software defects and Incidents and overall governance of the Defect Management Process. Responsible for administering Quality Center and production of project defect reports and metrics. Sole Defect Manager for the Back Book Migration project which migrated over 5 million accounts to the new SAP Banking platform. For the last 9 months of the project was also responsible for tracking and managing the Incidents raised off the back of each migration event via reporting and triages for technical and business representatives. Show less

Testing Consultant at Spring Technology based at Intergraph Swindon.On customer site as the Defect Manager responsible for Coordination and Management of all defects on local government project (Fire Control) liaising with head office in Huntsville for fixes to the core product, QC administration and metrics production.

Preparation and execution of tests for the CopperEye solutions. Maintaining metrics and evaluation and subsequent adoption of open source automated test tool "Bad Boy" for regression tests and smoke testing.

Test strategy and planning testing activities for multiple mobile devices across multiple software versions. Running a team of 4 testers and team lead with accountability for personnel and daily operational activities. Defect Management and metric production.

Contract test position - brought on as Test Engineer to work on the Largest Educational Software project yet in the UK and the largest Sharepoint implementation.This was a SharePoint Portal to be utilised by all Scottish Schools with a projected user base of over 800,000 users. It included integrated target systems to allow:Video Conferencing, Messaging, Secure File Transfer, Video Streaming, Visual Learning and Online lesson construction, Web Authoring and Hosting. Asked to… Show more Contract test position - brought on as Test Engineer to work on the Largest Educational Software project yet in the UK and the largest Sharepoint implementation.This was a SharePoint Portal to be utilised by all Scottish Schools with a projected user base of over 800,000 users. It included integrated target systems to allow:Video Conferencing, Messaging, Secure File Transfer, Video Streaming, Visual Learning and Online lesson construction, Web Authoring and Hosting. Asked to Test Lead after 1st extension of contract. Activities included some defect analysis and daily metrics as well as daily test activity planning. Show less

Responsible for the quality assurance of all software development carried out by the IT Group.Also incorporating Release Management responsiblity.

Initial role as Test Analyst, quickly moved to cross phase Test Management role on the Thames Water Merlin programme with responsibilities for test strategy, planning and governance. Also seconded to Post Office "POISE" project as Test authority.

Support analyst responsible for the 1st line support of the business Opearational system. Duties included:Testing development projectsReport writing for Operations via MS AccessTraining users on new functionalitySome Business and Systems analysis on smaller projects