Chris Wall Email & Phone Number

Greater Cardiff Area

Cwmbran

Responsible for the day to day project management of the development of web applications and services for the Careers Wales website following agile and waterfall methodologies. - Worked with internal DevOps, developers, the business and external development companies to deliver the applications and services on schedule and within budget.- Put together the development plan, identifying the work to be carried out, resource required and timescales.- Liaised with key stakeholders to gather business requirements. Documented them accurately in the form of epics/user stories in Azure DevOps/Jira for review and signoff.- Coordinated the design of web application and services with UX designers, DevOps and internal and external developers. Ensuring that it adhered to business requirements, design standards and system architecture.- Worked with the product owner/business and developers to prioritise epics/user stories in the development backlog to determine the features to be included in each sprint.- During each sprint took the lead in sprint planning, daily stand up and show and tell meetings.- Oversaw testing activities carried out by internal/external developers and software testers to ensure it complied with the test strategy and covered requirements- During development managed defects raised in Azure DevOps/Jira ensuring they were dealt with according to the development schedule- Communicated development progress to product owner/business and other key stakeholders via weekly progress reports and show and tell meetings. Highlighting any issues or risks.- In coordination with internal DevOps, the business and software testers managed the release of web applications and services to the production environment

Cwmbran

Responsible for coordinating the testing web applications and services for the Careers Wales site. Along with managing the resolution of bugs raised via the support process.- Analysed user stories and requirements to identify test scope- Documented test plan and test cases for user acceptance, regression and smoke testing using a combination of JIRA and Excel spreadsheets.- Scheduled testing activities in coordination with the project manager.- Oversaw the testing activities carried about by two junior testers. Peer reviewing their test cases and monitoring coverage during design and execution.- Participated in sprint planning, retrospective and show and tell meetings. - Executed user acceptance, exploratory, regression and smoke testing on the latest supported browsers and mobile devices.- Logged and prioritised defects in JIRA. Arranged for fixes to be tested and resolved according to the development schedule. - Communicated test progress to project manager via daily test execution and bug reports. Escalating any blockers with testing to the project manager for immediate attention.- Liaised with external developers to ensure that support issues are addressed in a timely manner and fixes are tested and released appropriately.

Caerphilly, Wales, United Kingdom

Responsible for providing technical support to all users of the Careers Wales website.- Provided support to schools and local authorities in entering their 14-19 local curriculum information onto the website in order to meet Welsh Government legislative requirements - Performed UAT on new web developments, ensuring requirements were met and any bugs identified were raised and resolved with external developers prior to release to live- Liaised with third party web developers to co-ordinate the fixing and release of bugs identified through support

Newport, Wales, United Kingdom

Responsible for working with large retail organisations and their suppliers to:- Provide helpdesk support for the GXS product data quality web application- Gather retailers product data quality rule requirements and implement them in the GXS product data quality web application- QA retailers new line product data

Newport, Wales, United Kingdom

Employed on a temporary basis after graduating from university. Primary role involved investigating and resolving the high volume of payment queries for UK government departments.

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Studies, 2:2

A Levels, Information Technology, Business Studies, History