Employed as a Senior Test Analyst working in a testing team of 30 reporting to the Testing Practice Manager. Kāinga Ora - Homes and Communities is a Government department specializing in Housing Management and Financial Systems. Kāinga Ora - Homes and Communities develops, Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), Esker, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and NEC Housing applications running under Java, REST API’s, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) within a Waterfall, Agile (Kanban and Scrum) environment. Duties :• Development and execution of test scripts using Micro Focus Silk Central, Atlassian JIRA and Microsoft Azure DevOps (ADO)• Using Black Box, Experienced Based, Requirements Based and Risk Based Testing Techniques• Liaising with Developers, Business Analysts, Project Managers and Release Managers to understand the Requirements/User Stories/Acceptance Criteria• Development and execution of REST API Test Scripts using SmartBear ReadyAPI• Development and execution of XML Messaging files for End-to-End Testing• Running Automation Test Scripts using Smartbear Test Complete and Jenkins• Development and execution of SQL Queries using SQL Developer to retrieve and manipulate data from the different Oracle Databases• Responsible for Requirements Analysis and ensuring full Requirements Coverage and Risk Traceability on the Project• Performed Smoke Testing, System Testing, System Integration Testing, Regression Testing, B2B Integration, Functional Testing, Exploratory Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)• Responsible for the Creation of the Test Plans, Strategies, Traceability Matrixes, Test Summary Reports as well as the estimation of the testing required• Accurate Reporting of Defects when Identified using Atlassian JIRA• Provide coaching and mentoring to other Test Team members, including providing guidance and support in the acquisition of new skills.

Employed as a Lead Test Analyst/Senior Test Analyst working in a testing team of 3 reporting to the Engineering Manager. Volpara Health Technologies, specializing in developing SaaS Cloud based Volumetric Breast Imaging Software. Volpara Health Technologies develops Web, Web API, Data Analytics software developed in C# running under Windows, SQL Server, XML, DICOM, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft IoT, Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Office 365 within an Agile (Kanban), DevOps, Continuous Delivery, FDA, ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119, ISO13485, ISO27001 environment.Duties :• Liaising with Software Engineers, Scientists, Technical Product Managers, UX Designers, Users and Release Managers to understand the Requirements/User Stories/Acceptance Criteria• Development and execution of Automated Test Scripts using Microsoft Coded UI (CUIT), Python and Selenium WebDriver• Development and execution of API Test Scripts using Postman• Development and execution of DICOM and XML Messaging files for End-to-End Testing• Development and execution of SQL Queries using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to retrieve and manipulate data from the different SQL Server Databases• Responsible for Requirements Analysis and ensuring full Requirements Coverage and Risk Traceability on the Project• Performed Smoke Testing, System Testing, System Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Functional Testing, Exploratory Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT)• Responsible for the Creation of the Test Plans, Strategies, Traceability Matrixes as well as the estimation of the testing required• Responsible for conducting manual and exploratory testing using Microsoft Azure DevOps (ADO)• Accurate Reporting of Defects when Identified using Microsoft Azure DevOps (ADO)• Be responsible for defining the scope of Functional and Non-Functional testing within the context of each release• Development of testing methods to improve the testing process

Employed by Spark New Zealand as a Senior Test Specialist (HP ALM/IBM Rational CLM Tools Specialist) reporting to the Testing Capability Manager. Duties : • Responsible for the Administration (Site Adminstration/Jazz Server Administration, Project Administration), Customization (Workflow Customization, Template Standardization)• Managing the on-going maintenance work of HP ALM and IBM Rational CLM within a Dev/Ops environment• Provide on-going support in order to achieve traceability and reporting as defined in the ALM/CLM Strategy• Provide guidance to the project teams in Best Practice and usage of ALM/CLM for all related testing activities • Ensure that Best Practice is followed at all times and provide recommendations on improvements and greater efficiencies that can be made to increase the quality of traceability and reporting using ALM/CLM• Act in a consulting capacity in the roll out of the ALM/CLM tools capability improvements, especially in the Metrics and reporting requirements as well as leading the migration from HP ALM to IBM Rational CLM• Run ALM/CLM Training courses (both formal and informal) to various project teams• Responsible for supporting IBM Rational Functional Tester (RFT), IBM Rational Performance Tester (RPT), HP Performance Centre (PC) and HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) as well as ALM/CLM.

Employed as a Test Specialist within the HP Testing Practice. Working on the NZ Immigration Services (BAU, ACT Review, Border Quadrant Upgrade and Critical Infrastructure Replacement Projects) reporting to the Project Manager. My main responsibility was to manage a Testing Team of 4 Test Analysts, testing Client Server and Web Applications developed in VB Net, C# and XML running under Windows XP/7/8.1, SQL Server within a Waterfall environment. Duties :• Development and the execution of manual test cases and scripts using HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)• Using Black Box, Experience Based, Requirements Based and Risk Based Testing Techniques• Accurate Reporting of Defects when Identified using HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Borland StarTeam and Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)• Development of testing methods to improve the testing process• Business Requirements Analysis and estimation of testing required• Performed Smoke Testing, System Testing, System Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Functional Testing, Exploratory Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT)• Responsible for managing the Defect Management Process• Responsible for Test Management Reporting• Responsible for the Creation of the Test Plans, Strategies, Traceability Matrixes• It was my responsibility also to be the HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) expert within the HP Testing Practice• It was also my responsibility to be the Knowledge Coordinator within the HP Testing Practice responsible for sharing testing knowledge across the various testing teams• Responsible for Change Management using HP Service Manager (SM)• Development of API Test Scripts using SmartBear SoapUI Pro• Development of SQL Queries using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to retrieve and manipulate data from the different SQL Server Databases• Liaising with Software Developers, Business Analysts, Project Managers and Subject Matter Experts (SME’S) to meet agreed timescales.

Employed as a Senior Test Analyst within the HP Testing Practice. Working on the (Ministry of SocialDevelopment (MSD) Java Transformation (SWIFT and TRACE) Project) reporting to the Project Testing Manager. The Project involved Client Server, Mainframe and Web Applications developed in Linc (Mainframe), Java, and XML running under Windows 2000/XP, Oracle within a V-Model environment. Duties :• Development and the execution of manual test cases and scripts using HP Quality Center (QC)• Using Black Box, Experience Based, Requirements Based and Risk Based Testing Techniques• Responsible for Test Management Reporting• Responsible for the Creation of the Test Plans, Strategies, Traceability Matrixes • Accurate Reporting of Defects and Change Requests (CR) when Identified using HP Quality Center (QC) and Borland Star Team• Development of testing methods to improve the testing process• Performed Smoke Testing, System Testing, System Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Functional Testing, Exploratory Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT)• It was my responsibility also to be the Quality Center (QC) expert within the HP Testing Practice. Development of Automated Test Scripts for HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) using the Business Process Testing (BPT) testing framework• Business Requirements Analysis and estimation of testing required• Development of SOAP API Test Scripts using SmartBear SoapUI Pro• Development of SQL Queries using SQL Developer to retrieve and manipulate data from the different Oracle Databases• Liaising with Software Developers, Business Analysts, Project Managers and Subject Matter Experts (SME’S) to meet agreed timescales.

Employed as a Senior Test Engineer working in a testing team of 4 reporting to the Senior Manager for Software Development. Siemens Molecular Imaging specializing in developing Medical Imaging (CT/PET) Systems. Siemens Molecular Imaging develops Client Server and Web applications in J2EE and C# running under Windows XP/2000 and Oracle within a Agile (Scrum), Waterfall, FDA and Tick IT environment. Duties :• Liaising with Software Engineers, Scientists, Technical Project Managers, Users and Business Analysis to understand the Requirements/User Stories/Acceptance Criteria• Development and execution of Automated Test Scripts using HP Quick Test Professional (QPT)• Lead and Plan Testing Activities on the Project• Responsible for Test Management Reporting• Responsible for the Creation of the Test Plans, Strategies, Traceability Matrixes as well as the estimation of the testing required• Responsible for the Creation of Test Plans, Strategies and Test Summary Reports• Responsible for conducting manual and exploratory testing using HP, Quality Center (QC), Borland CaliberRM and Atlassian JIRA• Performed Smoke Testing, System Testing, System Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Functional Testing, Exploratory Testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)• Responsible for Requirements Analysis and ensuring full Requirements Coverage and Risk Traceability on the Project• Participating in the daily defect meetings to identify critical & high priority defects so that quick action can be taken for fixing them• Participating in Daily Stand-Ups and Sprint Retrospectives• Development of SQL Queries using SQL Developer to retrieve and manipulate data from the different Oracle Databases• It was also my responsibility to be the HP Quality Centre (QC) and Atlassian JIRA administrator.

Employed as a Lead Test Analyst working in a testing team of 25 reporting to the Test Manager. Ordnance Survey is a Government agency specializing in GIS (ESRI) Mapping systems. Ordnance Survey develops Ecommerce/Transactional Web applications in J2EE, SAP (Business Warehouse), XML run under Windows XP/2000 and Oracle within a RUP and Tick IT environment. Duties :• Development and the execution of manual test cases and scripts using IBM Rational Test Manager• Using Black Box, Experienced Based, Requirements Based and Risk Based Testing Techniques• Business Requirements Analysis and estimation of testing required• Accurate Reporting of Defects when Identified using Rational Clear Quest• Performed Smoke Testing, System Testing, System Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Functional Testing, Exploratory Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT)• Responsible for Test Management Reporting• Responsible for the Creation of the Test Plans, Strategies, Traceability Matrixes• Development of testing methods to improve the testing process• Development of Automated Test Scripts for IBM Rational Robot using SQA Basic, Data Driven & Capture Replay Techniques• Leading and Managing Testing Teams in small and medium sized projects• I was also involved in the testing of the upgrade to Microsoft Sharepoint as well as the implementation of HP TRIM. • Development of SQL Queries using SQL Developer to retrieve and manipulate data from the different Oracle Databases

Employed as a Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer reporting to the Software Development Manager. Ultra Electronics SML Technologies is a Marine Electronics company specialising in Marine Vessel Traffic Management Systems and GIS GPS systems [ECDIS, ARPA and Radar] for the Military and Commercial Marine industry and the Offshore Oil Industry. Ultra Electronics SML Technologies develops applications in C++, XML run under Windows XP/2000, Oracle within a V-Model, MIL-STD-498 and Tick IT environment. Duties :• Manage the Testing and QA process for SML Technologies SML Development and the execution of manual test specifications and procedures using HP Quality Centre (QC) and IBM Rational Doors• Using Black Box, Experienced Based, Requirements Based and Risk Based Testing Techniques • Business Requirements Analysis and estimation of testing required• Responsible for Test Management Reporting• Responsible for the Creation of the Test Plans, Strategies, Traceability Matrixes• Accurate Reporting of Software Defects when Identified using HP Quality Centre (QC)• Development of testing methods to improve the testing process Development of Automated Test Scripts for HP Quick Test Professional (QTP) using VBScript, Data Driven, Capture Replay Techniques & Keyword Driven (Odin AXE Platform)• Performed Smoke Testing, System Testing, System Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Functional Testing, Exploratory Testing, Performance Testing, Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), Site Acceptance Testing (SAT)• Implemented both HP Quick Test Professional (QTP) and HP Quality Centre (QC) and I was also the HP Quality Centre (QC) administrator.• Development of SQL Queries using SQL Developer to retrieve and manipulate data from the different Oracle Databases

Employed as a Test Analyst working in a testing and QA team of 3 reporting to the Quality Manager. Clifford Thames is a software house specialising in Automotive Client/Server and Web Applications. The main responsibility is to test all the software developed by Clifford Thames in Visual C++ and C# run under Windows 2000/NT/XP, SQL Server 2000 and MQSeries within a RUP, MISRA (Automotive) and TickIT environment including monthly data feed testing. Development and the execution of manual test cases and scripts using Rational Test Manager developed from Business and Design specifications managed within Rational RequisitePro together with Rational Rose (UML) and document the test results to the defined testing standards and procedures using BlackBox and Risk Based Testing Techniques and the writing of test plans and strategies.To cover System, Regression, System Integration, Exploratory, Performance and User Acceptance Testing [UAT] stages. Accurate Reporting of Defects when Identified using Rational ClearQuest. Development of testing methods to improve the testing process. Development of Automated Test Scripts for Rational Robot using SQA Basic, Data Driven and Capture Replay Techniques. Liaising with Software Developers, Project Managers and Customers to improve products and meet agreed timescales.

Employed as a Build/Release Engineer working in a release team of 4 reporting to the Release Manager. The main responsibility was to manage the build process of the QA environment in a Telco environment. The deployment of releases into the QA environment, administration of the environment and Telco applications, initial verification to confirm that releases have been deployed correctly. Checking release contents and their associated release notes, assessing impact of deploying releases, deploying the releases to two QA environments both directly to servers and via staging servers, administration of application servers, web site servers, staging servers, domain controllers and SQL servers, Defect tracking using Test Director and administration, technical support of Windows environments and Telco applications covering the full spread of Telco products including billing, paper billing, billing schedulers, customer service web portals and cable TV.

Volt Europe is a systems house specialising in all aspects of software development. The work at Volt Europe involved working on many different projects from Data Warehouse Order Processing System to Facility Management Applications. The main responsibility was to manage the Testing process of Client/Server and Web Based Applications. Developed in Visual Basic, DCOM, Crystal Reports, ASP, XML run under Windows 98/NT/2000/XP, SQL Server 2000 and Access 2000 within a Agile environment. Accurate Reporting of Issues when Identified using an Intranet Based Defect Tracking System. Development and the execution of manual test cases and scripts developed from Business and Design specifications together with Rational Rose (UML) software and document the test results to the defined testing standards and procedures using BlackBox and Risk Based Testing Techniques and the writing of test plans and strategies.To cover System, Regression, System Integration, Exploratory and User Acceptance Testing [UAT] stages. Development of testing methods to improve the testing process. Liaising with Software Developers, Project Managers and Customers to improve products and meet agreed timescales.

Employed as a Test Consultant working in a testing team of 8 reporting to the Systems Manager. The main responsibility was to test the MOX Plant Information Management Computer (MPIC) Client/Server software system. Developed on an Oracle, Sybase and Ingres platforms with an Oracle Forms Interface and run under Windows NT within a V-Model and ISO9001 environment. Accurate Reporting of Defects when Identified using Rational ClearQuest. Development and the execution of manual test plans and scripts developed from Business and Design specifications and document the test results to the defined testing standards and procedures using BlackBox and Risk Based Testing Techniques and the writing of test strategies and phase test plans. To cover System, Regression, System Integration and User Acceptance Testing [UAT] stages. Liaising with Software engineers, Users and Project Managers to improve products and meet agreed timescales. Working to stringent procedures relating to the Nuclear Industry IEC 880 (Nuclear) standards.

Employed as a Senior Test Engineer reporting to the Managlng Director. Voyager Software is a software house specialising in Recruitment and HR Client/Server and Web Based Applications. The main responsibility was to manage the testing process at Voyager Software. The software was developed in Visual Basic, DCOM, Visual Foxpro, Coldfusion, run under Windows 95/98/NT/2000 and SQL Server. Accurate Reporting of Defects when Identified using Test Director. Development and the execution of manual test plans and scripts using Test Director developed from Business and Design Specifications and document the test results to the defined testing standards and procedures using BlackBox and Risk Based Testing Techniques and the writing of test plans and strategies.To cover System, Regression, System Integration, Performance, Exploratory and User Acceptance Testing [UAT] stages. Development of testing methods to improve the testing process. Development of Automated test scripts for WinRunner using TSL, Keyword Driven (Odin AXE Platform) and Data Driven Techniques. Liaising with Software Developers, Technical Support, Sales, and Customers to improve products and meet agreed timescales.

Employed as a Senior Test Engineer working in a testing team of 4 reporting to the Software Development Manager. Mantech Advanced Recognition is a software house specialising in OCR and Barcode Recognition Client/Server Applications for the Banking Industry. The main responsibility was to test all the software developed by Advanced Recognition developed in Visual Basic, DCOM and Visual C++ run under Windows NT and SQL Server within an Agile and ISO9001 environment. Development and the execution of manual test plans and scripts using Test Director developed from Business and Design specifications and document the test results to the defined testing standards and procedures using BlackBox and Risk Based Testing Techniques and the writing of test plans and test strategies. To cover System, Regression, System Integration, Performance, Exploratory and User Acceptance Testing [UAT] stages. Accurate Reporting of Defects when Identified using Test Director. Development of testing methods to improve the testing process. Development of Automated Test Scripts for WinRunner using TSL, Data Driven and Capture Replay Techniques. Developing VBScripts for in house test harness. Liaising with Software Developers and Technical Support to improve products and meet agreed timescales.

Employed as a Test Engineer working in a testing team of 3 reporting to the Software Testing Team Leader. PRI is a software house specialising in developing Real Time embedded software metering solutions for the Electricity Industry. The main responsibility was to test all software developed by PRI. Developed in Delphi and C++ run under Windows and DOS within an ISO9001 and RUP environment. Accurate reporting of Defects when identified using Rational ClearQuest. Development and the execution of manual test cases and scripts using Rational Test Manager developed from Business and Design specifications managed within Rational RequisitePro to the defined testing standards and procedures using BlackBox and Risk Based Testing Techniques and the writing of test strategies. To cover System, Regression, System Integration and Performance, stages. Document test results and other testing documentation for the final design review meetings. Development of testing methods to improve the testing process. Development of Automated test scripts for Rational Robot using SQABasic, Data Driven and Capture Replay Techniques. Liaising with Software Engineers and Product Managers to improve products and meet agreed timescales.

Employed as a Test Engineer working in a testing team of 6 reporting to the Test Manager. Penny and Giles Aerospace designs and develops Flight data recorders for Aircraft and Helicopters both Military and Commercial. The main Responsibility involved testing Flight data recorders both software and hardware to AQAP, CAA, FAA, JAA, RTCA/DO–178B (Avionics), BS5750 and ISO9001 under stringent testing procedures. Testing ranging from system testing down to component level based testing including writing ATE programs developed in C and QBasic.