Perform Project Management and Business Analysis across all phases of the Project Lifecycle;Engage with and Project Manage Business and IT relationships throughout the Project Lifecycle;Deliver multiple initiatives of varying scale and complexity whilst ensuring delivery to Time, Cost & Quality;Perform formal project initiation activities and agree Project Scope;Requirements Analysis to capture and accurately document Business Requirements for Reconciliations;Ensure project documentation is approved by stakeholders at various stages of the projectAgree test approach and manage User Acceptance Testing Phase including creation of Test documentation;Manage stakeholder involvement at all stages of the Project Lifecycle;Adhere to project governance by performing agreed Project Status Reporting, RAID and Change Control Management;Develop understanding in LEAN and Agile in preparation for move into delivering change in those methodologies;Achievements:Delivered the Avaloq vs. Charles River reconciliation with Match success rate of 98%, meaning checks for actual breaks were more efficient as there was a reduced output population to investigate and less manual matching was requiredLed the delivery of the FISS vs. ADP reconciliation for Investment Bank Middle Office in support of a New Product Proposal to trade US stocks on a new trading platformResponsible for training new member of team on UAT lifecycle and the documents involved in testing as well as other phases within the project lifecycle. Provided support for same team member on document creation with peer reviews and walkthroughs

Provide High Level and detailed test estimates, including effort, data and environments;Analyse, review and interpret business requirements and processes to provide a test basis for execution;Create Test documentation, including Test Plan, Test Completion Report, Test Scripts, Traceability Matrix and ensuring these are reviewed and signed off by the key stakeholders;Facilitate walkthrough sessions with key stakeholders to ensure that the deliverables by the test team are understood and interpreted correctly;Manage RAID's for the Testing Phase of Projects and Small Change;Execute test scripts ensuring that results are evidenced;Identify and Raise Defects, owning these to resolution;Provide reports highlighting the progress of testing, including Defect status and summary of testing activities since the last period;Ensure that Quality is delivered by peer review and QA of all deliverables;Engage with business colleagues to enhance knowledge on their processes, systems, products and function;Line manage and support junior members of the Test Team;Achievements:Participated in the Regulator Name Change Project which ensured the documentation sent by the bank was in compliance with the change from FSA to FCA/PRA – which includes hundreds of letter templates within the bank’s document library across all productsLed the regular TSYS releases for a number of successful credit card deliveries, by executing and co-ordinating Test Effort through the Regression pack and additional bulletin requirementsResponsible for revising the Impact Assessment template which enabled a reduction of documents required to be created as part of the analysis or feasibility stage of the software lifecycle for all Banking changeHeld the Test Lead Role for Mortgages workstream, taking on the responsibilities of all small change and the larger Mortgage Broker Project

Developing and maintaining an understanding of business area processes and applications by sitting with users, facilitating workshops and reviewing procedures;Creating Project documentation throughout the lifecycle, including Terms of Reference, Business Requirements Document, As-Is and To-Be diagrams;Ensure that project documentation is signed off by those accountable following a walkthrough session of the content;Managing RAID's across the project lifecycle and carry out regular reviews for controlling and minimising impact;Build effective and strong relationships with business users, IT and Project team members at all levels;Effectively managing Stakeholders by keeping them informed with regular status reporting, regular meetings, escalating when required, and providing answers to any queries;Delivering multiple initiatives of various size and complexity to agreed timescales and quality;Oversee Implementation of the change by creating the Implementation Plan and ensuring that the tasks are carried out by those responsible;Achievements:Successfully delivered the migration of US reconciliations onto Barclays strategic platform, intelliMATCH.Successfully implemented reconciliations from legacy systems onto intelliMATCH, ensuring that the all phases were effectively managed. A particular challenge where the development team were based in the US.Semi-Automated manual reconciliations for Barclays Wealth fund manager business where four Reconciliations deliveries were managed successfully to provide a robust production process.

Liaising with Operational and Front Office stakeholders/users to ensure detail of test suites are appropriate, agreed and signed-off;Creating Test Plans and ensuring these are reviewed and signed off by the appropriate stakeholders;Creating user focussed Test Scenarios and Test Scripts from analysis of functional and business requirement documents in order to capture appropriate outcomes and coverage;Executing tests to plan and within timescales, raising issues and defects and owning these defects to conclusion;Use the Testing Tools available to provide test progress reporting and defect tracking by management;Chair UAT Progress meetings and Test Review Boards; and following up actions as appropriate;Supporting colleagues by completing Test Scenarios, Test Plans and Test Scripts peer reviews;Achievements:Contributed to the delivery of Project Omega which integrated Barclays Wealth systems with Barclays Capital systems