Daniel Sayers Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Crawley

• Test Lead for the System Test phase of the 2015 ‘Options Exercise’ ensuring all eligible members of the Civil Service Pension Scheme were invited to move from the old Final Salary schemes to the new C.A.R.E scheme at the relevant date. Liaising directly with the client’s U.A.T Manager to ensure that all required testing was signed off within agreed timescales.• Test Analyst during the System Test phase of the new Civil Service ‘Alpha’ Pension Scheme. Responsible for creating detailed coverage matrices, test scripts and test data. Executing tests for all new and existing workflows, and interfaces.• Test Lead for a number of Client specific deliveries (Public & Private Sector) on the Penserver, Compendia & Compendia Touch applications. • Test Lead for a number of Client specific deliveries to a Member Self Service website (T.S.S). Producing Test Coverage to ensure that the core product is configured correctly for both Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Pension Schemes. Extensive testing of Lifestyle and Freestyle switching undertaken.• Test Lead for deployments to the LAMDA legacy system. Responsible for Progress Reporting, Test Coverage, Test Execution and liaising with the offshore Test Team.• Test Analyst for several Payroll Projects on the Penserver application.

Production of BAT deliverables throughout the End to End stages of a project.Conducting test reviews (including Static testing) of Business Requirements.Determining the appropriate test approach in collaboration with the Test Lead, to ensure effective BAT preparation and execution is produced, mitigating business risk.Performing Business Acceptance Testing as agreed in the BAT Stage Test Plan and raising defects as appropriate on Quality Centre.Retesting defect fixes when deployed to the relevant test environment.Supporting the Test Lead in defining the entry criteria to BAT and making recommendations at the exit of BAT.Providing effective communication to the Business Lead, Business Test Programme Manager and Business users to support the smooth delivery of any test activity.Complying with the agreed test methodology and standards to ensure good governance and record keeping in line with all test principles and commercial interests.Using experienced based techniques as and when required to complement previously agreed test coverage.

Heavily involved in the ‘Detailed Discovery Phase’ of the Elixir Programme. Responsible for running workshops and meetings to ensure effective communication and interpretation of requirements.Lead Analyst for the implementation of AWD to Group Protection including analysing the backscanning of thirty thousand archived files.Provided BAU support using ‘super-user’ access on all Group Protection systems.Owner of all Business Process Manuals.Produced weekly premium increment reports.

Dealt with the administration of Group Protection policies for a portfolio of Brokers. Processing New and Existing Business Quotations, Renewals and Rate Reviews.