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Thatcham, Gb

London, London, Gb

London, London, Gb

Hungerford, Berkshire, Gb

Leeds,, England, Gb

Responsibilities:• Introducing and maintaining test automation across 9 scrum teams for new and legacy products, increasing regression coverage to reduce risk, increase quality and to release products quicker to market.• Member of the Product Development leadership team to plan for upcoming projects, implement strategy, sharing and discussing updates across the department.• Managing recruitment process and budget for QA.• Upskilling 15 QA engineers to have the ability to carry out automation development using Robot Framework for UI and API testing.• Creating an L&D program which QAs can follow to ensure career progression.• Creating QA process for automation and manual testing, ensuring QAs are following the implemented processes to ensure quality of products are being released.• Implementing strategy which focuses on automation, quality and exploratory testing.• Aligning QA team to create visibility across Scrum Teams to know what is being released into Production.• Introduced Test Rail to store automation and manual test cases.• Working with test and development architects, SDETs to ensure consistent architecture over frameworks.• Introduced GITLab repositories with a managed merge process for Automation code.• Implementing automation test suites across Scrum Teams into release pipeline to increase confidence for functional testing.• Creation of central repository for information such as processes and guidelines for QA in Confluence.• Working with development and test architects to introduce CI/CD approach using TFS.• Working with Service Delivery for management over releases to Production.• Member of Request for Change approval board for any changes which are being released to Production.• Ensuring Automation tests are run on a daily basis using Jenkins with Docker Containers.• Working with external Development Teams for integration testing.• Liaising with external and internal stake holders to ensure requirements are being met.

Leeds,, England, Gb

Working within a Scrum team writing UI and API automation tests in a bespoke C# framework using the Microsoft recommend way of Automation testing with Test Agents and Test Controllers running through Microsoft Test Manager. I participated in sprint ceremonies, working with the team to task out user stories, writing automation to meet acceptance criteria of a user story and managing changes from Test through to Production. Working and collaborating with Product Owners, Business Analysts and Developers.

Leeds,, England, Gb

Working within a Scrum team carrying out manual testing, writing manual tests into Microsoft Test Manager. Testing UI and Windows Applications, I participated in sprint ceremonies, working with the team to task out user stories, ensuring changes meet acceptance criteria and managing changes from Test through to Production. Working and collaborating with Product Owners, Business Analysts and Developers.

Leeds,, England, Gb

I learnt the fundamentals of coding Windows applications in C#, building applications ready for QA and unit testing. Peer programming with Senior Developers to develop new features and bug fix. Supporting QA to ensure Dev support was available for releases.

Leeds,, England, Gb

My role was to ensure disruption to the development teams were kept to a minimum by carrying out Third Level support to resolve Product related calls which were raised from all areas of the business, mainly from Service Desk. I self-taught myself to learn SQL and to understand complex database structures which helped me to resolve majority of calls from writing basic SQL to PL/SQL.

My role at Lotsof.net was to provide desktop and product support for a web application, speaking with customers on a daily basis to help with general product support. Managing relationships with web design agencies for new features and bug fixes.

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