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London, United Kingdom

Promoted internally to Test Lead as a result of the strong impact made to improving QA structures and culture within the tech department. Defined strategies for the business unit alongside providing deep technical support and guidance to my direct reports.• Planning test strategy and approach across the publishing department. • Upskilling and development of team members.• Developing and maintaining the web-integration suite. • Improving manual testing processes across tech.• Resolving conflict disputes.• Owning the final sign-off on production releases.

London, United Kingdom

Primarily focused on establishing QA best practice within the web team and moving towards a CI(Continuous Integration) model. Established the first automated test framework in the company, which became the model for all test automation for subsequent publishing applications. • Developed the team’s first manual testing suite by creating acceptance scenarios.• Developed our first automated testing suite.• Identified bugs on the test environment before merging to live.• Ticket testing of all development for the portal team.• Created a DOR (Definition of Ready) and a DOD (Definition of Done).• Developed CI automated testing approach for all new publishing projects.• Closely collaborated with the product team, establishing new workflows between dev teams, QA and product.

London, United Kingdom

Software engineer involved in the automation and manual testing of RGA’s Internal and external web applications using groovy.• Created automation scripts in Groovy for the in house and customer facing systems which replaced a previously manual testing only approach.• Conducted manual testing to verify bug fixes and provide final sign off for deployments• Reviewed code of other QA Engineers, which eliminated persistent false fails from automation.• Used an Agile development structure to improve the overall testing workflow and to monitor the progress of manual testing and test automation.• Merged script versions through GIT and resolving code conflicts.

London

Senior member of the Collateral Management System (CMS) Automation team at London Clearing House responsible for replacing the costly manual testing process for CMS with a reliable automated test suite.• Analysed the progression of the CMS Automation project through QC and Jira in order to identify potential blockers for weekly targets.• Solved issues with our testing environment by being deeply knowledgeable of the underlying data architecture of CMS and coded solutions for any persistent issues causing blockers.• Used Unified Functional Testing (UFT) software to automate web testing and manipulate SQL Developer databases to simulate user behaviour. This gradually eliminated the need for lengthy manual test regression.• Assigned automation tasks to other team members through Jira based on knowledge areas and task difficulty, ensuring the most efficient use of limited resources under tight deadlines.• Reviewed the completed scripts of other team members, provided feedback on coding approaches and eliminated final bugs before assigning them to manual testers for final sign off. • Represented the CMS Automation team as the POC in daily Scrum meetings in order to communicate requirement changes and provide feedback to other teams.

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My responsibilities at Zevas communications included: • Building up and maintaining a portfolio of customer contacts.• Liaising with their customer base • Attending daily meetings. • Meeting weekly sales targets

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Civil Engineering

Post-Graduate Diploma (Civil Engineering), Environment And Energy