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Poole, England, United Kingdom

I am in the fortunate position that I don't need to work any more. However, I have gathered a wealth of experience, knowledge and skills, particularly in Test Process Improvement and leading Test Teams. Should any locally sited company have concerns about their test quality that need to be fixed, I could be the person to ask.

Poole, England, United Kingdom

I joined Flowbird International on a six month Fixed Term Contract to evaluate the Test Team towards improving their test quality, efficiencies and throughput. Flowbird International provide integrated ticketing solutions for transport companies globally. Whilst offering end customers improved ticketing options to complete their journey, they provide.

Poole, England, United Kingdom

Partly due to the COVID situation I’ve been taking a longish sabbatical break from work, which may become indefinite. Any type of Testing role locally though, may be considered, particularly PAYE limited contract roles.

Paddington, London

Returning back from the extended break, I was fortunate to be offered a new role. Vodafone as a core Micro Focus (HP) tool user requires an upgrade implemented for the integrated environment including ALM, BPT, UFT, Sprinter, Performance Center and others to remove operational risks. The requirements being to keep within technical support and be delivered.

Took an extended time away from work to do some travelling to the other side of the world and achieve some of those things we have in our bucket list. Used a family event in Australia as a catalyst to visit Singapore and meet ex-colleagues based there from my previous jobs. Travelled to Queensland Australia to visit the Barrier Reef, then to Uluru and.

Paddington

Supporting Vodafone’s Group DevOps and Agile test definition, integrating code development and quality assurance within a Continuous Integration and Development methodology to improve working efficiencies and speed to market for Telecoms and Mobile apps. Vodafone are consolidating their international IT development services. My role is delivering.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Brought in to assist the development of strategic standards and test tools capability across the DWP end-to-end Test Management process, growing the new in-house testing capability being created across multiple UK sites. Responsible for consolidation of the test tools licence management. Developed a Tools team to administer the tool solutions. Championed.

London, United Kingdom

I joined at the beginning of their Business Solutions Programme on a 12 month contract to replace aging and obsolete services. The role required the development and presentation of a company IT Test Framework of processes and standards to improve their delivery quality and efficiency; aiming towards Test Maturity TMMi Level 2. This includes developing.

Poole

• Rationalised the existing development tool licences, developing savings from identified wastage and removal of licence shelf-ware. Reviewed Vendor contracts and purchases, licence validation and budgetary management of.
• Identified £841K Annual Service Maintenance savings
• Reduced £14.3M shelfware assets by 58%.
• Identified dormant RAD application deployments whose removal will save £1.2M. Designed and delivered on-boarding web pages providing end-to-end visibility of resource management requirements for department managers.

Barclays House, Poole

Gained extensive tools knowledge of IBM Rational tools, HP Quality Center, Load Runner, Performance Center and Test automation tools. Developed the Global tools service to improve Project delivery efficiencies aligned to Barclays Retail Global Strategic Development Life Cycle processes. Provided continuous service development allowing projects to focus on.

Led the newly integrated team of IBM Rational and HP Test tool support personnel as a world-wide distributed operation. Delivering an integrated development tools service to the global user community across the end-to-end project lifecycle for multiple technologies. To enhance their delivery capability and reduce costs. HP Quality Center and Performance.

• Required to identify and manage Test Environment and Tool initiatives delivering project productivity and stability improvements. Managing a £2M improvements programme and the Test Strategies that phased out a.
• £0.5M operational costs saved, SLA response times reduced from days to hours, project test metrics standardised for management and executive reporting.
• 5 Test Directors supporting 100’s of projects upgraded to a single global Quality Center service with minimal impact on user operation and developed a VDI Performance Center replacement for LoadRunner to improve cost.
• Negotiated substantial increases on previous Barclays tool discounts

Being part of the IT team outsourced to Accenture, undertook Test Quality Assurance consultancy role on Barclays Retail Programmes & Business Managers requests to review their testing RAG status’s and achieve CAB implementation approval. Defined Business Internet Banking test performance requirements; recommending Load Runner and organising performance.

Managed the overall Electronic Banking Y2K test environment development and SIT/UAT test teams, developing ring-fenced systems for Retail, Corporate and Investment services, incorporating regression test automation coverage. Interviewed and negotiated contractors to supplement the team. The testing scope was increased to include Euro Banking changes to.

Analysed and tested CHAPS and SWIFT mainframe enhancements. Led Radbroke Payment system migration to Poole; centralizing support. Negotiated SQA (now Rational) test tools contract to automate Electronic Bankings’ test service. Represented Barclays on the APACS CHAPS committee; evaluated and recommended inter-bank technical testing requirements.Defined.

Derby, United Kingdom

Documented Derby and Bristol Aero engines requirements to create an IMS based Group Assembly Parts List. Implemented a security solution to manage authorised access to military engine parts.