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Newcastle Upon Tyne, Gb

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

 Ultimate oversight of the testing standards, guidelines, and testing methodology as specified in the testing approach  Define, document and obtain approval for Test Strategy and Approach, including objectives, overall phasing and testing methodology and standards  Ownership of overall product quality and testing resources on assigned projects Define and track test metrics, including code coverage, quality, and performance  Manage execution of testing efforts; including meeting committed delivery dates for released and soon to be released applications and components while ensuring highest level of quality.  Set and agree test tool strategy, leveraging automation tools  Review the development process to ensure that defect tracking (identification, fixing, re-testing and migration of defects) is properly addressed. If not, define the defect tracking process and incorporate it into the overall development process  Determine and meet time estimates and schedules for testing efforts  Define Test Plans and entry/exit criteria  Develop, update and maintain quality testing standards and procedures  Communicate effectively with customers and vendors as appropriate  Facilitate structured walk-through and peer reviews  Project Specific: Implement, maintain and Improve Test Automation Framework for client applications (CRM) as well as other UK government application projects. Working with agile team, implementation automation using Cucumber, Selenium Java, serenity including API automation. Tools : Postman, Jenkins, Confluence, JIRA, Git, Bitbucket, Slack, IntelliJ/eclipse

Leeds, United Kingdom

* Implementing and maintenance of automation test framework for cucumber tests. * Expand test automation coverage by implementing gherkin test scenarios in cucumber feature files.* Regular execution of test suites as part of project build and publish test results.* Working with the Agile team, practicing continuous integration, deployment.* Defines, develops and implements automated tests with cucumber for java and Gherkin for BDD.* Improve automation framework to be more flexible, reliable and easy to maintain.* Coaching QA colleagues to upscale their abilities automation and manual exploratory testing.* Fixing Test Automation framework failures which has been created along with legacy system, and improve them to work with current development under progress.* Tools and technologies used: BDD, Gherkin, Cucumber, JAVA, Bamboo, IntelliJ IDEA, Gradle, Git.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Main responsibilities involves implementing test plans for suite of products throughout the full software lifecycle. Maintain and expand test case and test automation coverage, and publish test results. Working with the team to develop quality assurance standards and helps triage bugs.• Defines, develops and implements automated tests for web applications and APIs - using Selenium and python.• Develops and maintains continuous deployment and testing scripts, including maintaining the target host environments.• Develops and maintains test tools as needed for testing, such as SQL queries, test data, and test drivers.• Troubleshoots bugs discovered by automated tests and errors in test scripts and continuous deployment pipelines.• Extends automated testing below the UI layer to the service and data access layers as appropriate.• Collaborates with the QA and development teams to determine the best test approach for new and existing features.• Performs manual testing when needed.• Develops scripts for scale and performance testing.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Set up and formalise test approach for Manual and Automation testing in Agile development and testing environment. Coach and mentor testers with in test team. Setup test environments and deployment process.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

AgileTFSVS 2013Test PlanningTest AutomationTools: Test Complete, Microsoft Test Manager

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

IT Support to BT broadband customers for Network and Broadband connection issues.

Mca, Computer Applications

Activities and Societies: Cricket, Swimming and MusicBachelor of Science with Electronics and Instrumentation Controls

B.Sc, Electronics & Instrumentation

Masters in Computer Applications