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Hove, England, United Kingdom

• Legal & General are upgrading their security framework which provides identity and access management capabilities for external users, both intermediaries and customers. The SCRAM project (Secure Customer Registration.
• Analysis of technical design documents, liaising with technical architects and developers to understand the solution.
• Creation and execution of test cases, raising defects and managing them through to closure.
• Daily updates of testing progress within Sprint “stand-ups”, all within the Agile methodology.
• Review previously written User Stories and work with BAs to enable better development and testing practices.
• Support business teams while undertaking UAT. Manage any queries or defects arising from testing.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Shard Capital is upgrading their internal customer onboarding system, creating a new trading platform and customer portal. As I was the only test resource, my role was to test those systems and at the same time bring.
• Review previously written User Stories and recommend improvements to enable better development and testing practices.
• Create tests based on reviewed and signed off User Stories brought into Sprint.
• Undertake System Testing, raise any defects and manage them through to retest and closure.
• Complete lifecycle testing.
• Testing data within database using SQL queries.

London, England, United Kingdom

• At Lloyds I had two objectives, firstly, testing to ensure that data which had passed through an ETL process was transformed as per the specification. SQL queries were used to interrogate the database and extract.
• Analyse new design documents for latest release against old to extract the latest changes.
• Using x-ray for JIRA, write test scrips based on those identified changes.
• Write SQL queries for data extraction and analysis to support test execution.
• Execute the test cases and raise defects, report progress to management.
• Undertake UI testing to ensure data is presented as per the requirements.

Hove, England, United Kingdom

• While at Legal & General I my three main projects were: - Modernisation of their Life Assurance quotation system. The project is broken down into multiple phases with the initial phase establishing a policy member data.
• Liaise with the business to Write and execute System, System Integration and Performance Tests. Management and ownership of defects through to closure.
• Test Management documentation; creation and maintenance.
• Working with offshore teams to ensure timely test execution.
• Test execution alongside offshore test teams.
• Defect management with offshore test and development teams.

Hove, England, United Kingdom

• MetLife is one of the largest insurance companies in the world covering life insurance, Group Protection (GP) and Income Protection (IP), annuities, employee benefits and asset management with approx. 100 million.
• Write & execute System, System Integration and Performance Tests. Management and ownership of defects in relation to ISA and Contract Enquiry projects.
• Performance testing and test automation using jMeter and Selenium to achieve near 100% coverage.
• Validation of data migrated to new Salesforce environment ensuring data relationships still intact.
• Interface testing covering both internal systems and Capita, the external 3rd party solution provider.
• Using SOAP UI and XML Spy to manually execute tests and analyse results.

Crawley, England, United Kingdom

• Equiniti have the contract for supplying the Pensions solution for multiple private and public organisations supporting 2.9 million members over 750 schemes paying over £13 billion annually. The latest project was to.
• Plan, design, build and execute system test scripts based on high risk business areas
• Write and execute SQL queries to find or modify data to facilitate System and Integration testing.
• Record defects in Mantis and manage throughout the whole defect lifecycle to closure
• Create Pension Award interface files capturing complex test scenarios and import into Penserver to facilitate System testing
• Support development and analyst teams to resolve defects throughout all test phases

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

• Legal and General have been undertaking an upgrade to their Point-Of-Sale systems for mortgage sales agents and advisors across the whole Legal and General sales network. The project involved updates to the legacy.
• Plan, design and build System Test scripts
• Plan, design and build UAT and System Test scripts focusing on high risk and key business processes as identified by the business.
• Create coverage matrices demonstrating level of requirement test coverage that the UAT and System Test phases would achieve.
• Give in-depth walkthroughs of UAT test scripts and coverage matrices to key project sponsors proving the level of coverage that the testing would achieve.
• Test scripts built within Excel and uploaded into ALM (Quality Centre) for test asset management.

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

• MetLife is one of the world’s largest Insurance companies. With an aggressive growth plan, the company is streamlining business system to ensure the IT infrastructure can support the planned growth. Projects involved.
• Feed into creation of collaborative testing approach between the vendor and MetLife.
• Regular travel to Dublin (vendors site) and Canary Wharf (location of UAT MetLife team) to discuss test progress and deliverables.
• Creation of Test Plans covering Interface Testing and UAT.
• Review all test assets delivered as part of vendors System Testing.
• Ensure all quality gates are met before entering into UAT phase.

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

• Airmiles, part of the British Airways group of companies, operates in a highly competitive environment. The ability to react to market fluctuations is imperative for the business to succeed therefore Airmiles undertook.
• Plan, write and execute test scripts which then fed into regression test pack for execution in an agile development environment.
• Support business users through UAT/BAU phase from a test data, test creation, business process and test methodology perspective.
• Reporting defects and managing through to close down using JIRA and liaising with off-shore development team.
• Working with 3rd Party suppliers to ensure test data requirements are met.
• Interrogation of Oracle DB via SQL query’s to support testing.

London, England, United Kingdom

• With QAS, the UKs largest address data services company being taken over by Experian the credit rating agency, Experian’s Siebel systems required modifying to support the QAS business processes from the legacy Sun.
• Siebel Marketing and Analytics job setup to generate output data files
• Interface testing from Siebel data files into Oracle financials
• Working closely with development team to ensure quick turnaround or defects due to tight timescales.
• End to End test planning and execution
• Test creation, execution and defect reporting and management through to closure

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

• Family Investments are the UK’s leading Child Trust Fund provider with nearly 2 million customers. With a fiercely competitive business environment, Family Investments continuously change to ensure the company offers.
• System Test the new Child Trust Fund offering on multiple browsers.
• Test financial data feeds enabling Trust Fund interest rate calculation and the Trust Fund valuation tool.
• Ensuring web look and feel as per the business wireframes.
• Liaising with the business on latest web content changes.
• Testing customer documentation downloads functionally and non-functionally.

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

• Lloyds TBS are undertaking one of the UK’s biggest software integrations programmes involving multiple IT systems and business units with the goal of achieving a high quality, fully integrated business ensuring greater.
• Setup and agree with the Project Managers the strategy for running multiple data migration projects over multiple systems.
• Consultation with Project Managers on test practices for the data migration projects in a Data Warehouse environment involving methodologies, tools and involvement with the offshore development teams.
• Agree resources where appropriate, ensuring funding is in place for test resource.
• Analysis and review of regression pack ready for hands on test execution when required.
• Agree the test reporting approach feeding into management summaries.

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

• Capita have the contract for creating one of the biggest databases in the UK (32 million contacts) for a BBC-TV Licensing project involving large scale data migrations. The objective of the project is improved business.
• SQL Scripting to System Testing, collate test results and evidence within an Oracle Data Warehouse.
• Unix script analysis and basic administration to aid test execution and analysis.
• Test script generation, execution and result recording and reporting within Quality Centre 8.2.
• Interface testing inc. management of third party relationships to ensure interfaces are tested in an accurate and timely manner. Complex interface file creation where stub is required.
• Environment management involving environment update requests and propagation of status to teams.

Reading, England, United Kingdom

• Yell Group is a fast moving, dynamic organisation that requires constant change to react to the demands of the market place. The SAP solution comprises the SD, MM, HR, FI, CO, AR, AP, BW and CRM modules with a heavily.
• Management of multiple testing projects from Integration testing through to UAT
• Hands on System Testing involving creation and execution of test cases and management of the defect lifecycle within Quality Centre 8.2
• Create and execute SQL scripts to query the Data Warehouse for test setup, execution and reporting.
• Continual Process Improvement ensuring the companies CMMI Maturity level 3 is maintained
• Guidance to the business on test methodology, documentation review and control with a continual focus on quality