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London Area, United Kingdom

- Developed and implemented an automated test framework using C#/.Net, WinApp Driver, Specflow, and XUnit tools to perform integration testing of a number of Railways Signalling systems namely- Infinity Workstation software developed by Alstom that replaces the existing MCS system, Dynamic Simplifier system that replaces paper based Simplifier system;- Developing necessary test artifacts and producing regression packs for systems integration level testing for these WPF frontend based systems following industry best practices and setting it up to run in CI/CD pipeline within Azure Devops to assist in transforming manual testing in the project into automation testing;- Setting up the virtual automated test infrastructure and continuous testing processes in the project using Azure DevOps platform to ensure every incremental change undergo an automated build, deploy and testing process on a daily basis;- Producing Integration Test Specifications and Test Reports documents including code coverage statistics to demonstrate the effectiveness of automated integration testing, and to assist with ISA compliance procedures;

London, United Kingdom

Research, Insights, Advisory, Consulting, Implementation

Essex, United Kingdom

London

- Developed and implemented an automated test framework using C#/.Net framework to test integration of new Automated Routing System (ARS) rolled out by Alstom in Southeast England which introduces a new technology architecture in the UK to enable real-time railways traffic regulation and conflict resolution using AI based optimisation techniques such as Reinforcement Learning.- Developing necessary test artifacts and producing regression packs for systems integration level testing of this complex end to end system following industry best practices and setting it up to run in CI/CD pipeline within Azure Devops to assist in transforming manual testing in the project into automation testing.- Developing and maintaining build and release pipelines for different software components, as well as various data artifacts repositories within Azure Devops.- Leading the test and release process of the integrated solution interfacing with the end client to allow regular iterative deployment and testing carried out in virtual cloud environments, as well as in a physical lab that simulate railways signalling environment for joint e2e testing with Alstom.- Instrumental in setting up the automated test infrastructure and continuous testing processes in the project to ensure every incremental change to different products undergo automated testing and deployment covering different testing levels, for faster feedback and ensuring quality of feature branches being developed in the project.Technology Stack- Visual Studio, C#, Specflow, BDD, Azure DevOps, RestSharp, REST APIs, Json, MS SQL Server, Entity Framework, LINQ, Git, RabbitMQ

Coventry, England, United Kingdom

Worked as Automated Test Lead as part of a major Technology Transformation Programme that implemented enterprise-wide shared CRM platform (Dynamics 365), Data Integration (Azure IPaaS) and API Management (Azure EAPIM) platforms, and Data Integration solutions using event driven architectures between enterprise SaaS applications such as Zendesk, ServiceNow and Dynamics 365 CRM.Defining and leading Technical Test Strategy to cater for both functional (Unit, Integration, Acceptance) and non-functional testing (Performance, Accessibility, OAT).Responsible for the developing & implementing common reusable Automated test framework and setting up the CI/CD and TDD practices following Agile and DevOps methodologies and associated tools, mentoring other team members in the usage.Instrumental in delivering a broad automated test coverage across multiple projects being executed as part of CI/CD pipelines or as daily overnightly multi-threaded executions for instant and continuous quality feedbackTechnology Stack- Visual Studio, C#, Specflow, BDD, Azure DevOps, RestSharp, Azure APIM, Azure Integration Services (Logic Apps, Function Apps, Service Bus, Message Queues & Topics), REST APIs, Json, GraphQL, XSLT, XML, Postman, MS SQL Server, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Storage tables, Git, JMeter, OAuth, OData, Selenium, BrowserStack, SortSite

London, United Kingdom

Strategy, Market Development, Product Evangelism

Newport, United Kingdom

As a Test Automation Architect led the assessment of existing automated test estate across IPO technology teams identifying specific improvement areas; to then carry out test automation transformation by developing and implementing an enterprise wide automation framework called TAFFIT to successfully achieve significant automated test coverage improvements, simplification of automated test development, implementation of industry standards and good practices, promoting code reuse, up-skilling of IPO test team members, and integrating the framework with IPO’s strategic lifecycle management tool of choice;Implemented TAFFIT framework in a large-scale Technology Re-platforming project for Trademarks at IPO with active involvement in agile sprints with BAs and Developers to capture, develop and execute automated Acceptance and API tests built against the newer IBM BPM platform and REST API’s middleware architecture; Mentored other team members in the set up and usage of the framework to achieve a high automated test coverage of 60%+ executed continuously from VSTS/Azure DevOps build and release pipelines as multi-threaded providing a fast and reliable feedback in application cycles to the project engineering teams;Technology Stack- BDD, DDD, Visual Studio, C#, Specflow, VSTS/Azure DevOps, Page Objects, RestSharp, Selenium Webdriver, IBM BPM, REST APIs, Json, Postman, Swagger

Yorkshire

Led technical efforts for a successful Automation POC, to include frontend-middle-backend application technology automated testing, for this FTSE 50 client going through a multi- million digital transformation program in Yorkshire, UK. Technology Stack: Selenium Webdriver, Cucumber, Jenkins, UFT, ALM, Jira, Zephyr, ZAPI, Java;

London, United Kingdom

- Responsible for driving automated testing technical strategy defining Test Automation Frameworks, Processes & Tooling- Designing and implementing innovative test automation frameworks promoting consistent architecture, reuse of code, collaborative automated testing practices across Digital DevOps & Systems of Records technology transformation projects- Assisted in building a central test automation specialist team from scratch; Mentoring and leading a team of automated test specialists on test automation solution architecture- Driving uptake of test automation across key technology projects realizing significant benefits in terms of increase in automated test coverage, reduction in testing cycle time and testing cost saving as a highlight reaching 90% critical business processes automated for Child Maintenance Group technology area reducing their testing cycle time by 60%, 300+ man days saving in the initial year and upskilling of 8 Domain QAs/SMEs in test automation;Technology Stack- Selenium, Cucumber, Gherkin, Java, Python, Jenkins, GitLab, Maven, BDD, Page Objects, Page Factory, ReadyAPI, Groovy, ALM, UFT, VB Scripting, Siebel PS

London, United Kingdom

Implementing API Testing Automation practices to support Systems Integration and End to End test phases for a Service Orientated architecture delivery in SEFT program aimed towards replacing paper rail tickets with digital media/contactless cards in the UK; Defining API automated test framework/approach; Implementing integrated automated tool set to include Smartbear ReadyAPI/SoapUI NG Pro, TestComplete and HP ALM; Assisting the team in development and execution of automated API tests for SOAP and Restful web services;

Basildon

- Defining and implementing a unified Test Automation Strategy in a large Systems Integration transformation program focused on building a custom wealth management and pensions administration platform for an FTSE 100 client; Building an automated test capability for carrying out regression testing in System testing, SIT and E2E test phases in the program, Test Estimations, Resource and project planning, Managing a globally distributed team including internal automation team and third party vendors; - Defining and implementing Automated Regression Strategy in a large scale Wealth Management platform development project for an FTSE 100 client having to build an automated test capability from scratch; Assisting in development, execution and maintenance of automated test assets in functional areas such as Advisory, client and account management, Transaction Processing, Asset Management for products such as ISA, UT, OEIC, RA; Mentoring the existing manual QA community to engage in a role based automated test creation & execution activities during FAT and System testing phases; Stakeholder Management and measuring the success by capturing metrics on automated test coverage by having to automate 500+ tests and ROI of roughly 200+ person days in the initial year through repeated executions;

Brentwood

- Established a central function for Test Automation in a greenfield environment; Recruting Test Automation Specialists spread across multiple geographic locations- Developed and introduced a standardized test automation framework using HP UFT/QTP and HP ALM tools and associated standards & best practices for automated test development and execution- Implemented an engagement model for test automation initiatives to deliver automated test capabilities for key core applications to provide automated regression test capabilities across multiple projects with in IFDS- Established Test Automation Metrics standards for monthly reporting on Test Automation Progress at an organization level- Took lead in setting up an Execution lab and Automation tool licensing infrastructure to leverage across different locations within IFDS

Leeds, United Kingdom

• Developed and implemented an extensive Test Automation framework, utilizing HP test tool set-QTP and QC, from scratch in a large scale SAP Implementation programme called ATLAS at NPower• Defined Automation standards & procedures and Up scaled a test team in the usage of Automation framework to develop scripts for automated regression testing of end-to-end utilities business scenarios such as billing,customer on-boarding/leaving/switching/upgrading gas and electricity utility services or equipment; spanning across SAP IS-U, SAP CRM and other third party systems; • Actively involved in hand-on development, execution and maintenance of regression Test Automation scripts

West Yorkshire

Implemented a keyword driven Automation Framework and led a team of Automation Test Analysts to deliver automated regression packs for data migration project of a large scale Mortgage Application

Glasgow, United Kingdom

- Designed and developed a QTP based keyword driven Test Automation Framework having an innovative design with keyword template implemented with in Quality Center by extending test plan design steps tab to provide a single view manual + automated test allowing non-technical testers to build automated tests directly with in Quality Center - Implemented the Framework in Barclays Stockbrokers customer facing Dealing website re-architecture program by up-scaling a distributed test team spread across Glasgow and Singapore to develop, execute and maintain automated functional tests utilizing the framework resulting in a high ROI very early in the project and automated execution of SIT and regression cycles to assist in timely completion of functional testing schedule for this critical transformation project- Carried out Test Tools Evaluation exercise on a number of commercially available tools to support testing activities for a large scale SOA initiative with in Barclays Wealth; Conducted POCs on selected tools based on SOA technology stack and technical requirements with in Wealth to recommend and bring on-board 30+ licenses of a best fit SOA test tool; Provided initial training and hand holding to proliferate the tool across SOA technology teams distributed over NY and Glasgow- Led testing efforts for a SOA development project called PBTV by performing test analysis,development and execution of Automated test suites using SoapUI Pro test tool for Component testing of Soap/http based Web Services and associated provider back end systems in a Continuous Integration based Agile development environment

Developed a modular functional test automation framework in the Sunday Times project at News International using QTP 9.2 which involved building reusable function libraries for the backend java swings CMS and the front end website for Sunday Times to assist automation of low level end to end test scripts in an agile environment, and setting up batch execution of automated tests using driver and scheduler programs in a data driven harness

Responsible for introducing, developing and implementing a Functional Test Automation Framework using QTP 9.5 and Quality Center 9.2 for an internal application at Symbian (now Nokia) resulting in automated scripts accounting for more than 50% of the test bed being executed overnight on a daily basis through continuous build and test processes.Mentoring and managing offshore test engineers for automation script development deliverables.

Led testing activities for a product line from Reval India Offshore Center; Introduced a Test Automation and Test Management tool solution for a financial product;

Took responsibility to form a centralized team of Automation Specialists in Testing Center of Excellence at UHGIS to serve different application testing teams for Automation Framework development & implementations leveraging QTP as Automation tool; Providing QTP tool trainings and supportLed Automation Framework development and implementation projects on various application technologies such as CICS/Mainframes, Web, .Net;Designed a cutting edge plug and play Keyword based Automation Framework for CICS screen driven mainframe applications and leading efforts for carrying out framework's implementation in multiple projects successfully;Managed a team of functional testers for Cross Application Testing projects which dealt in integration testing of some of the core Health Insurance applications at UHG involving Test Planning, Team handling and mentoring, Monitoring testing cycles, Test Reporting and co-ordination of efforts with onsite teamActed as a core member in building a new IT captive centre for UHG in Gurgaon from ground up by assisting in hiring, induction, work transition and team building related initiatives for testing teams

Worked as a Test Analyst on a large scale custom implementation of a Product Data Management application- Teamcenter Enterprise; Handling some of the complex features in the application responsible for requirements analysis, system testing, regression testing, and user training Led Test Automation efforts for a set of product engineering applications at Motorola involving Automated script development, execution and maintenance, Automation process and procedure definition and implementations, QTP tool trainings and technical support

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