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Bristol, England, United Kingdom

• Management and mentoring of the Test Team including recruitment and working with offshore 3rd party test team (team size 6 - 15) comprosed of Manual Automation & SDeT engineers (including recruitment)• Third party engagement and management of satellite, offshore team• Process Mapping and Management• Quality Initiatives (Gherkin to STR so knowledge of the platform is not key to running the test/Automation rewrite to better standards/Creation of Hybrid Test Engineer role (Manual and Automation test capable)/Test tagging both AT and Manual/Test Case Repository for test storage and reuse/Cross referenced guide to platform testing using joined up previous initiatives/Introduction of Release When Ready in the Journey to CI/CD).• Resource mapping to agile delivery• Release Management - Agile, bi-weekly, Release When Ready and hotfixes• Release Management planning around releases, migrations and infrastructure releases• Transformative approach to removing outdated processes and introducing sustainable patterns of delivery• Automation and manual testing, review and business wide Test Strategy• Automation rework project instigated for better quality tests• Major Incident Management team member for release and test engagement• Azure DevOps• Product Steering Group and Technical Leadership Team member• Root Cause Analysis input and action output• GDPR• BPSS & SC cleared• Customer facing as required

Bristol, United Kingdom

• Senior Test Manager• Management and mentoring of the Test Team (including recruitment)• Test Strategy, Release Strategy• Atlassian Cloud Tools, Jira, Confluence• Automation establishment using HipTest/Java/Selenium IDE• Selenium/Browserstack for multidevice/OS coverage• Process improvement and maturity• Testing improvement and maturity• Training and mentoring wider Agile team – Project and Account Management, DevOps, Development and QA• Website and API testing• Release and sprint planning for existing and new products• Product scoping and requirement best practice for existing and new products• ALPHA and BETA lifecycle testing• Hands on (Manual and Automation testing) when required• Heading up the EU GDPR Working Group and implementation of improvements• Cyber Essentials accreditation champion• Defect Management• Member of Security Working Group• Fire Warden & First Aider (Certified)

Bristol, United Kingdom

• Implementation of business wide Environment and Release Management processes for Digital Platform - AWS (Amazon Web Services)/Salesforce/Liferay/Drupal, etc, Waterfall projects and associated technologies. Championing and buy in of new processes for business and 3rd party suppliers.• Championing the transition of Waterfall to Agile software delivery.• Implementation of Quality Standards and Test Strategy.• Implementation of joined up processes (Testing, Release, Environment Management documentation and procedures).• Strong process development and management skills.• Management of the Test Team – team of 7 - including recruitment• Responsible for SIT, UAT, PREP (PRE-PROD) and PROD environments.• Matrix management of team, interviewing, mentoring, talent/career progression of team members• PMO (Project Management Office) liaison, Test approach for projects, Environment approach for projects, Pre and Post live environment requirements.• CAB (Change Advisory Board) member as Test and Environment Manager and Digital Platform (Agile approach) Champion.• Test Management of key projects - iPad rollout to Council, Data Centre Move, Help Desk Software (LANDesk), EDRM solution (Alfresco).• Rewriting of Test Strategy, approach and presentation back out to the business.• Atlassian Cloud Tools, Jira, Confluence, Alfresco EDRM• Manual Testing. Writing test scripts.

Bristol, United Kingdom

• Creation and implementation of Environment Management function from scratch for the Finance team taking the number of waterfall releases from 2 to 4 a year.• Transition of service from HBOS (Halifax Bank of Scotland) to Lloyds TSB.• Travel to different UK offices to champion Environment Management (Aylesbury, Bristol, Manchester, Edinburgh).• Test Management representation during transition from HBOS to Lloyds TSB.• Team Manager – Team of 2.• Matrix management of 3rd party out sourced teams.• Exceptional relationship with Test, Build, Senior Management, 3rd party teams.• Responsible for SIT, UAT and PREP environments.• Shared Drive Data Management and move to SharePoint (EDRM) solution.• Batch (overnight/anniversary jobs) scheduling across 8 test environments on a daily basis.

Bristol, United Kingdom

• Testing in a lead and support capacity as required within the team.• Fast changing project priority driven environment.• Test case creation and management, bug logging and tracking• Time critical Member Services/Support investigations• Testing of bespoke web interface client and AOL website functionality• Use of Symantec ghost, testing tools and bespoke applications• Mac OS X specialist for Bristol QA• QA and Roll out of AOL 9.0 & AOL 9.0VR, Netbreeze service & AOL Browser

Bristol, United Kingdom

• Contract Support Analyst• Use of remote logins to support bespoke systems and databases at level 1 & 2 for AXA Insurance.

Bristol, United Kingdom

• Tier 2 and 3 support on AOL Campaign.• Team Coach – team of 15• Training Instructor for support of AOL 8.0 campaign• Learning the beta version of AOL 8.0 and then developing a training course for support teams.• Roll out of AOL 8 Training and development of the training course from scratch.

Bristol, United Kingdom

• Level 2 Epos, SSM & PC Support• Use of raw HTML (in Notepad) for Neural Database & Intranet creation• Creation of Helpdesk Intranet site• Deskartes Neural Database Implementation• Remote Support• Out of Hours Level 3 cover• SQL

Telford, United Kingdom

• Supervisor - team of 6.• Preparation of dye powders and additives for colourisation of wool bales in Stock Dye department.• Stock Dye Training Instructor.• NVQ Assessor• Colour match and colour correction of dyed wool.• Hazardous Chemical handing under COSHH ISO9002 (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health) regulations• FLT operation.• Pre-winder, Spinner and Carding duties.• High Pressure Vat and 3 tonne Overhead Crane operation.• 6 months Machine building secondment for new machinery installation• 3 shift system working