Christopher Dewar Email & Phone Number

Falkirk, Gb

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Fixed term employment.Test Analyst – Jan 2019 to present (fixed term employment)Part of a system testing team working on a project to develop the University’s Admissions and Student Records system in Oracle Technologies to meet the needs of the students, staff and other stakeholders. Also tested new enrolment and graduation web sites, developed for staff and students. • Functional testing on external and internal sites, for various types of users.• Writing test scripts and gaining sign off from the business• Executing scripts via JIRA testFLO• Raising defects, discussing issues with developers and retesting• Cross browser testing• Consulting with team to allocate requirement planning tickets on JIRA• Meeting with Business Experts, to gain more knowledge and confirm understanding of functional specs.• Interviewing student interns to join the team

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Contracting through Limited Company.Working with a Senior Test analyst, on an Agile project. Assisting with EVT & carrying out UAT for a project introducing a new tool for the business, to automate a process to create different index review documents, from specific chosen criteria.• Functional testing on index review criteria selection & creation tool.• Test comparisons between test environment produced & production data, analysing & enquiring on any unexpected differences.• Attending daily scrums.• Agreeing JIRA ticket test coverage, for the sprint, with senior test analyst & writing scripts.• Test execution on Quality Centre.• Raising & retesting bugs on JIRA.• Attending and giving feedback in sprint retrospective meetings.• Liaising with Business Analysts to confirm understanding of requirements.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Contracting through Limited CompanyMember of a UAT team working on an agricultural culture project for both internal & external customers to register & submit various applications to receive funding. The project initially started as Agile & moved onto a hybrid methodology.· Monitoring test execution from team & reporting progress/major issues back to team manager. · Taking initiative to train, less experienced business colleagues, to expand their knowledge & skills for testing, providing testing advice & knowledge of best practise. · Observing & gathering test setup progress, prior to execution, to feedback to manager. · Test script preparation from use case documents, user stories, ruleset documents & Product Owner feedback. · Executing tests to agreed timescale/deadline & organising new cycles. · Raising, retesting & keeping track of defects on JIRA. · Representing team & communicating defects/issues in triage meetings & daily scrums. · Demoing & explaining defects to Product Owners & developers. · Organising access & setup for team members, business trainers & Product Owners. · Supporting colleagues & organising training/exercises for ISTQB foundation. · Organising new build retest communication, chasing up outcomes & feeding back results by deadline. · Allocating tests, according to experience & providing support, to maximise team efficiency. · Identifying triggering data & communicating with external IT support partner. · Creating help/process flow & previous experience document to help new starts · Organising & hosting meeting for SIT testers & defect manager, to review issues.· Static testing of user stories & feeding back to Product Owners and Business Analysts.· Uploading scripts to Enterprise Tester and organising into folders.· Being flexible to add adhoc tests, for business re-assurance.· Analysing Criteria in ruleset documents & user stories, to decipher trigger values, boundaries and partitioning test data needed.

I was an employee of Sopra & was assigned to client sites, as detailed below:UAT Analyst at Student Loans – Jan 2013 to Nov 2013 Member of UAT team for a new internal & external customer loan Portals project, which followed the V-model methodology and then altered to a rapid application prototyping development. Responsibilities included: · Reviewing Business Requirements & Functional Specs for testability and completeness. · Participating in formal Business reviews, demos & workshops with Business and other work stream representatives. · Preparing both high level and detailed test scenarios, reviewing with the UAT team & obtaining Business sign off. · Ensuring all documentation is clear & consistent with ICT standards. · Build Verification testing. · UAT test execution including UI and cross browser testing, retesting of defects and regression testing.· Defect reporting and attending defect triage meetings. · Updating Risks, Assumptions, Issues & Dependencies (RAID) log. · Providing support to business users for their testing. · Liaise with colleagues sharing best practise and working as a team to ensure we meet our goals as effectively and efficiently as possible. · Work without supervision using own initiative to complete tasks in a quick and accurate fashion. · Manage workload to ensure tasks are achieved within project budgets and timescales. · Performed full end to end integration between different portals & databases. Scottish Power –System Test Analyst August 2012 to Jan 2013 I was involved in projects for new product testing & updates to the various customer sales channels, bills & letters. · Review, maintain and update tests in Quality Center. · Communicating with Developers to find best solution. · Post Implementation checks. · Mainframe testing. · Checking sales outputs on data tables. · Contributing to test plan preparation & gathering specific test case data. · Checking produced customer docs with spec templates.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Contracting through Limited CompanyBank Migration archiving project. Project delivered by deadline, with key tasks including: · Image testing & exclusion testing. · Running batch jobs & analysing SAS data unloads. · Using SQL in DB Visualizer to analyse DB2 tables, to gather cases with specific data & to check SAS data unloads. · Writing scripts to add to timeline. · Updating & following timeline for progress, whilst using scripts to execute tests & log results. · Analysing system data & table outputs. · Comparing output documents with project requirements. · Using HP Quality Centre to raise & retest defects. · System comparisons carried out on multiple test environments of Bankprod ProIV. · Reporting testing progress & defect updates to Senior Test Analyst, Project Manager & with team members at briefings.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

I was initially employed as a Customer Service Representative by Standard Life Bank, dealing with Mortgages and Savings. Whilst working there I gained experience, through secondments to the test team, for 5 projects, averaging 4 months on each. Testing & Analysis for Mortgage & Savings Projects · Writing scripts to add to timeline. · Regression, confirmation, user acceptance & decision table testing. · Updating & following timeline for progress, whilst using scripts to execute tests & log results. · Analysing system data & table outputs. · Comparing output documents with project requirements. · Using Test Director to raise & retest defects for system releases. · System comparisons carried out on multiple test environments of Bankprod Pro IV mainframe, GTX, MAPs-BUD. · Contributing in training workshops, training and coaching business users on the functionality of the new system, providing efficient knowledge transfer to help them perform their roles.

Education record

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Electrical And Electronics Engineering