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Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Responsibilities: Conducts: Performing End-to-End system, regression and UAT. Automation: Building automation scripts from a fresh framework and implementing them into the Regression pack seamlessly, whilst also independently running automated regression packs. Supports: Supporting the automation process with improvements to scripts and suggesting areas to improve, whilst also helping to implement and drive ideas forwards. Support the Agile testing process, attending… Show more Responsibilities: Conducts: Performing End-to-End system, regression and UAT. Automation: Building automation scripts from a fresh framework and implementing them into the Regression pack seamlessly, whilst also independently running automated regression packs. Supports: Supporting the automation process with improvements to scripts and suggesting areas to improve, whilst also helping to implement and drive ideas forwards. Support the Agile testing process, attending daily stand-ups and ownership of individual user stories. Improvements: Supporting QA Team Lead and Principal QA Engineer with implementing the QA Automation Strategy. Designing: Design and create test conditions and scripts to address business and technical use cases. Manual: Has confidence to run and add new scripts to the Manual regression packs independently. Reporting: Clear reporting of the testing status through test execution. Maintenance: Maintenance of testing script checklist to ensure this is consistent with new or changed functionality as part of a software release to support the testing activity. Test Data: Identifies/creates data for different testing phases. Mentor: Mentors or trains juniors and mid-level QA Engineers. Providing Help: Assists Principal QA Engineers with the development of new frameworks. Defect Tracking: Document, track and escalate issues as appropriate, using JIRA or similar tools/means. Promote: Champions a forward-thinking ethos within the company and team by fostering awareness and engagement in cutting-edge technologies. Show less

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

• Interacting with product management, project management and SCRUM development teams to develop a strong understanding of the project and testing objectives, including participating internal sprint planning and reviews, daily stand-ups.• Designing and creating test conditions and scripts to address business and technical use cases.• Working closely with Project Teams to create client facing Test Strategies and Test Cases.• Overseeing scheduled and ad hoc functional and regression… Show more • Interacting with product management, project management and SCRUM development teams to develop a strong understanding of the project and testing objectives, including participating internal sprint planning and reviews, daily stand-ups.• Designing and creating test conditions and scripts to address business and technical use cases.• Working closely with Project Teams to create client facing Test Strategies and Test Cases.• Overseeing scheduled and ad hoc functional and regression testing of new and existing core functionality to ensure high quality standard are achieved at all times for all software releases.• Running automated/Manual Tests.• Clear reporting of the testing status through test execution.• Maintenance of Testing script checklist to ensure this is consistent with new or changed functionality as part of a software release to support the testing activity.• Participating in troubleshooting and triaging of issues with different teams to drive towards root cause identification and resolution.• Document, track and escalating issues as appropriate, using YouTrack or similar tools/means.• Supporting production deployment of applications and performing “validation testing” during the off hours maintenance windows.• Performing End-to-End system, regression and UAT. Show less

Osaka, Japan

Over the Japanese academic year, I was assigned to 1 Junior High School and 2 Elementary schools as an English Teacher. My role was both a language instructor and cultural ambassador.

Working with and alongside Hewlett Packard's customers on a variety of on site project based work, helping the customer to deliver and achieve their business and IT objectives.

Hewlett-Packard

dEUCe - Desktop End User Compute EvolutionThe project involved upgrading/replacing the customers infrastructure, migrating 40,000 global users from Windows XP to Windows 7, due to end of support approaching for Windows XP.Application Team: December 2014 - February 2015 (3 months)- I worked with the HP application team as a User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Engineer. - This involved scheduling UATs with a selected application user.- Building a virtual machine and environment… Show more dEUCe - Desktop End User Compute EvolutionThe project involved upgrading/replacing the customers infrastructure, migrating 40,000 global users from Windows XP to Windows 7, due to end of support approaching for Windows XP.Application Team: December 2014 - February 2015 (3 months)- I worked with the HP application team as a User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Engineer. - This involved scheduling UATs with a selected application user.- Building a virtual machine and environment for the test to be carried out. - Carrying out an Integration test to ensure there are no installation/compatibility issues.- Providing a test plan for the user and providing any support for the user on the day of the test.- Collecting a valid, signed and dated UAT certificate, and delivering this to the Sign Off lead.Skills: Organization, Time Management, Team Work, Application Lifecycle, Application Migration.Pre Site Verification: February 2015- For a brief time I worked on pre site verifications.- This involved visiting a number of customer sites, collecting and updating site specific data.- This included machine, user and application information for each site.Skills: Data Quality, Attention to Detail, People skills, Data collection and Data Analysis.Technical Team: March 2015 - June 2015 (4 months)- I worked with the HP technical team on deployment preparation and providing deployment support.- For every customer site which were deploying machines, we would prepare machines for staging.- Prepare cache setup and user's specific applications for each site.- The deployment engineers were on site replacing/refreshing users machines.- When issues were raised, I would help to resolve any issues remotely.Skills: SCCM, Adaptiva, Remote Support, Machine Deployments. Show less

The project involved the sale of an entire business unit to another company. The end objective was to create a standalone IT system that will allow the business unit to operate, on a like-for-likebasis, which is completely separate and independent of the customer estate. PMO Team: July 2014 - December 2015 (6 months)- Initial role was supporting the IT Separation Lead.- Monitoring and maintaining the Project master plan.- Updating the programme milestone tracker.-… Show more The project involved the sale of an entire business unit to another company. The end objective was to create a standalone IT system that will allow the business unit to operate, on a like-for-likebasis, which is completely separate and independent of the customer estate. PMO Team: July 2014 - December 2015 (6 months)- Initial role was supporting the IT Separation Lead.- Monitoring and maintaining the Project master plan.- Updating the programme milestone tracker.- Managing and keeping good order of documentation and data.- Performing spreadsheet analysis.- Working well with a large team of project managers.Skills: PMO, Data Analysis, Documentation, Teamwork, Microsoft Office, Organization, Customer Relationships Show less

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Business Informatics (Hp), First Class Honours

Activities and Societies: Climbing First year Information Systems Development Applied Internet Technologies and e-Business (HTML, CSS).

Education record

11 GCSEs obtained grade A - C including English Language/Literature, Maths and Science. 3 A levels in ICT, Maths and Psychology.