Dan Chasty Email & Phone Number

Reading, United Kingdom

• I joined the ‘Start-Up’ Guardian Financial Services at Easter 2018, into a small team comprised primarily of contract testers. Testing the suite of systems built to administer the Life and Critical Illness Insurance.
• Development, Maintenance, Tailoring, Execution and Analysis of Automated Tests (AXE, written in Selenium C#), to bolster and support the manual test effort.
• Development and maintenance of stand-alone tools to aid the manual test effort.
• Writing and executing manual tests in support of the manual testers (Web Apps, Back-end systems and API requests/responses using Postman).
• Environment Shakedown (Smoke) Testing.
• Monitoring debugging issues with the test environments (Glowroot)

Basingstoke

• Over a number of years worked as a Test Analyst and Senior Test Analyst for AXA Wealth, which had since been bought by Phoenix Group. Responsibilities included end-to-end testing of the in-house built software. Ranging.
• Leading the testing effort on various projects
• Estimated test resource requirements
• Liaised with project team, stakeholders and third parties
• Periodically reported on progress
• Provided test sign-off taking into account Application Key Controls and test closure activities.

Basingstoke

Transferred to Phoenix as part of the TUPE process.Working as a Test Analyst on websites previously owned by AXA Wealth. See previous employment for detailed description.

Basingstoke

• Over six years worked as Test Analyst, including end to end testing of the in-house built software ranging from the back office pension administration system, quotes, workflow, Biztalk and downstream Finance systems..
• Estimating test resource requirements
• Preparing, maintaining and reviewing test conditions and documentation, ensuring adherence to Testing Standards
• Test execution and Defect Management, including shakedown and post release verification
• Liaising with project team, stakeholders and third parties
• Maintaining confidence by keeping the project team and stakeholders updated with daily progress reports.

Basingstoke

• Daily tasks included the test analyst responsibilities and supporting the day to day running of the Back office administration systems.
• Dealt with Support queries
• Liaised with Business representatives.
• Investigated and corrected errors
• Ongoing maintenance of the Issue Log
• Logged incoming work items