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ExpressTest - PCR and Lateral Flow Covid-19 testing.Agile test manager for an online Covid-19 test appointment and data capture portal, and backend test result processing system.System developed through configuration and customisation of Salesforce.Planning and coordination of the test strategy and daily test activity for two scrum teams. Liaising and working closely with all the design and development disciplines within the scrum teams, project management, client representatives, and supporting and advising UAT activities.

Test managing completion of UAT for migration to an upgraded version of their Financial Control system.

Formulating and documenting the test approach and plan for business acceptance testing of a fraud detection system for VAT and tax Self Assessing submissions.Stakeholder management and coordination of a dozen business area user groups through workshops and individual interviews.

End to end test manager for platform migration of the Heathrow airport baggage handling systems. Replacement of the entire system hardware, firmware and network infrastructure and migration of the software and data to the new environments..Planning, coordination and defect management of the test activities of the prime (Capgemini), multiple software system suppliers and client testing.

Assurance of all functional test activities of prime supplier (IBM) with onshore and offshore sub-system suppliers , developing a fraud crime reporting system for the National Fraud Investigation Bureau (NFIB). The solution includes fraud reporting portals for the public, police and enterprises through online web forms, call centre CRM and interfaces to other partner data suppliers. The reports and documents are fed into a network visualisation system where the reports are matched through extracted common entities and where the NFIB staff can triage, review created networks, casework and disseminate as case packages to law enforcement agencies for investigation through a secure file sharing service.

Corporate upgrade from Internet Explorer 8 to 11. Test strategy, UAT and assurance of vendor testing.

Agile Test Manager, involved from the creation of the in-house agile development capability. Responsible for the resources and all functional and non-functional test activity across 8-12 agile development teams. Defining and maintaining a consistency of approach and processes. All types of testing; exploratory, scripted functional, UAT, compatibility, accessibility, performance and Operation Acceptance testing. Dovetailing with embedded UX testing. The size of the teams and duration of the projects varied from Government Digital Service (GDS) Exemplar projects to small teams delivering projects in 4-6 weeks. Methodologies; Scrum and Kanban.

Managing and delivering business focussed User Acceptance Testing and Assurance of supplier functional and non-functional test activity and test artefacts. Performing these duties concurrently on three very different projects.

Test Manager for the first releases of the complex caseworking application designed to handle hundreds of thousands of visa application per year. The application has many interfaces to and from other legacy government systems and is highly parameterised and configurable by the business users.

Test Lead on an iphone hosted app for the use of Yell sale personnel. The app is used to record, configure and preview the listings requirements of Yell customers during sales interviews.

Test Analyst and later Test Lead on several projects including the creation and launch of the HMV Loyalty Point scheme and product group/shelf pricing to reduce the need for individual product pricing.

System Test Lead on the merging of the IT systems of Game and Game Station (stock control and ordering, financial, warehouse and stock distribution).

24 years IT development and test experience as a Full Time Employee and Contractor in multiple roles; Project Manager / Analyst Programmer / Developer / Test Analyst across various industry sectors including; Stockbroking, Insurance, Government, Police and Leisure.