Analytical and highly adaptable IT professional with 15+ years of experience in Quality Engineering and Assurance with expertise on General Insurance,, Life/Pension/Retirement domains, End to End Test Management and Test Consulting • Built top-notch global team of various niche skills and size of 50+ professionals to successfully deliver multiple complex projects across business propositions realising £2m annually from testing services • Client centricity proven through on time delivery of 30+ projects annually meeting business and change priorities for customers and to meet regulatory requirements. Accomplished communicator skilled in building strong relationship with stakeholders across business functions to deliver as one team• Experience of test managing large programs taking overall accountability from scoping, test strategy & planning, test estimation, test design, test execution, defect management, reporting, metrics and test closure by effectively collaborating with various business functions, multiple vendors with onsite – offshore team structure• Extensive experience working on Waterfall, Agile methodology (scrum/sprint delivery models) for System and User Acceptance Test phases on large Migration, BAU, Regulatory and Strategic improvement projects• Slashed test execution time by 70% by providing test consultation in establishing continuous testing on Azure Devops. Integrated test pipeline CI/CD) includes automated Unit Testing, API testing, End to End UI validation, Early performance, Early Security and Early accessibility testing,• Generated 100k savings for business by driving process standardisation, continuous improvement initiatives and automation frameworks created through BDD automation framework• Domain and application skills - Strong experience on General Insurance, Personal & Motor Insurance, Pensions and Annuities,Guidewire Applications for Claims & polisy Center management platform, Customer and Advisor portals, Content Manager systems,percolate and seismic, and Salesforce Applications• Technical skills – Experience on BDD Automation framework using Java, Maven, TestNG, POM, SOA Services, Restful services, SOAP UI, Postman API, SQL, Jira, QC• Management skills - Experience in estimating, resourcing, budgeting and invoicing for a complete Test portfolio• People skills – Ability to lead, motivate, mentor and develop staff to high professional standards. Line manager for 30+ associates, achieving 100% ISTQB certification by setting up clear development paths