BGL Group is a rapidly-growing financial services group who specialise in Insurance, Digital brands and Legal Services. We have a number of businesses in our portfolio – from top brands like Post Office & M&S to comparethemarket.com.My Role previously involved using HP Quality centre - Creating test scripts, executing tests, defect logging and producing test metrics, but more recently moving into a more Agile approach I use Jira to raise cards to be seen and used by the whole development team. Testing changes going into a rapidly evolving insurance based system ( AS/400 ) IBM I-Series - using SQL &WRK QRY to gather information, performing batch processes and back end testing. Also testing websites developed on the .Net framework. QA/ UAT TestingRisk based testing Test leadExploratory testingMVT TestingResponsive / Mobile design testing on mobile & tablet devices - iPhone, android & Windows.Various methodologies and approaches to test including agile & WaterfallSoap UI TestingTest metricsInvolvement from requirements through to delivery Using the team City application to run and get the latest .Net build for target hardware Test planning & ControlTest Estimation, Sprint planning and Sprint RetrospectivesScrumTest approaches/ StrategiesStatic TestingFunctional / Non functional testingLive TestingDaily conference calls liaising with partnersAssisting in the partners UAT Testing - resolving issues with the Environment

Using the IBM i -Series (AS-400) mainframe based application (Disc) supporting over 2000 Insurance call centre users with issues they came across while they were on the phone to customers which included Crashes / Password resets / financial problems / system administration etc. To offer prompt and efficient front line assistance with an aim of resolving as many issues as possible first time