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Speke, England, United Kingdom

Extremely experienced QA Test Engineer with over 20 years of experience. An AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner , I am currently part of an agile team supporting The Very Group (formerly Shop Direct) and it’s associated brands (Very, Littlewoods and Very Ireland). Helping to maintain, modify, fix and enhance the front-end interface for the customer in a microservices-architecture.Working closely with the business and stakeholders using the agile methodology to formulate and drive testing of mobile / app devices within a microservice architecture.Planning and controlling dev testing, UAT and SIT testing phases and ensure design guidelines , FS compliance and functional specifications are adhered to.Fully experienced in:Selenium WebdriverPostmanSOAP UICypressSeleniumBrowserStackAWS

Speke Merseyside

Responsible for increasing conversion rate optimisation whilst improving the customer journey and experience within an agile tribe structure. Playing an active role in maintaining product backlog , story grooming and sprint planning.Covering the full customer journey from inception , registration through to conversion.Google Analytics & Teradata statistical analysis to identify areas of potential growth.Conversion of analysis into test plans to formulate strong hypothesis.Facilitating A/Bn experimentation using the QUBIT platform across an extensive range of browsers and mobile devices.Creation of automation test plans and assisting in the creation of BDD test scripts.Delivery of test results and documentation.Building constructive relationships with key business stakeholder and third parties.Working with UX and CX colleagues to create optimal designs.Strong understanding of UX principles.Key Technologies include:Agile methodologies of KanBan & ScrumQUBIT A/B testing platformJira in the tracking of errors and bugs.Selenium Webdriver using Java & Eclipse IDE.Junit / TestNG assertion testing.Behaviour Driven Development using Cucumber.Rest Assured / Postman for API testing and services.Data Analysis using Google Analytics.Programming In Python For Data Analytics & Data Science.Statistical Analysis, Data Mining And Visualization in Jupyter Notebook.Strong understanding of UX principles.

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Senior Integration Test AnalystAnalysis of existing systems / Test script design and implementation.Test definition and analysis of existing in-house systems, design, user requirements, technical documentation and mentoring of in-house staff.Development of test specification documentation, design and the subsequent build of test cases and test scripts in Test Director.Formulating test schedule and supervision of testers during integration test execution (UI for UAT and batch mainframe for unit/system testing).Construction of SQL scripts for data extraction and manipulation.Fully conversant in Mercury Test Director 8 and TOAD for Oracle.Design and documentation of appropriate solution including data structures, processes, schedules, test exiting and defect tracking.Consulting with developers during build and testing of the solution.Largest I.T. retail project in Europe for home shopping systems with contract extended several times.Experience in web browser automation via Selenium (IDE)

Analysis and testing of existing systems and their architecture.Analysis for the migration of existing systems onto new mainframe platform. Definition of testing requirements and quality assurance.Determining conversion requirements in terms of data and processes to be migrated from old to new platforms. Third party liaison role.Major role in Microsoft Windows XP operating system rollout across UK at several locations including desktop installation.

Development, testing and maintenance of IBM Lotus Notes applications.Responsibility for developing, testing and maintaining both client and web applications in Lotus Notes 4.6 and R5 including E-Commerce projects.Overseeing application rollout, application deployment and the migration of existing applications in addition to integration and UAT software testing.Several years experience in developing insurance applications for business customers covering entire project lifecycle from inception to deployment.Troubleshooting, administration and support for users in Lotus Notes and all Microsoft Office applications.

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Development and maintenance of NHS systemsMaintenance, enhancement and testing of in-house computer systems in MS Access and Ingres, design and development of new systems.Analysis of the Health Authority databases and development and maintenance of the authority's Intranet and web-based applications.Troubleshooting, administration and support for users in Microsoft Office applications and construction of pc’s.

Msc Master Of Science In Computer Science, Object-Oriented Programming Methodology

Object-oriented programming Methodology Software Engineering Data Warehousing

Ba (Hons) Economics 2.1, Micro / Macro Economic Theory

Microeconomic Analysis Mainstream Macroeconomic Schools of Thought Mathematical Economics