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Bracknell, GB

Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

• Engineered a comprehensive QA function, including test management tool integration with Playwright tests; enabled direct Gitlab CI pipeline execution capabilities and providing seamless results reporting.
• Created robust, scalable Playwright frameworks and tests, included mentoring of senior automation testers via collaborative merge request review sessions

Bracknell, England, United Kingdom

• XE is part of Euronet Worldwide family, together forming the third largest money transfer business in the world.Key Achievements:
• Spearheaded creation of Cypress TypeScript boilerplate, led to new cross-functional automation collaboration between 3 of the 5 UK teams.
• Restructured Postman framework, added Postman-native test cases, defect root-cause analysis time reduced by 60%.
• Customised Jira defect template, improved bug detail level by 40% and reduced clarification requirements by 50%.
• Efficiently created urgent Postman API tests, system migrated before end-of-life deadline, cyber-attack risk cut by 75%

Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom

• Riskonnect (as of April ’22) is a leading provider of integrated risk management software solutions. Pivotal part of a transformation project to move main web application to a modern architecture.Key Achievements:
• Led creation of a Cypress test automation framework from scratch, regression tests completed 4x faster.
• Mentored intermediate Cypress automation tester, test case review iterations reduced by 50%.
• Crafted dynamic UI locators in Cypress, reduced UI locator count by 65% even with 20% increased automation coverage.

Chertsey, England, United Kingdom

• Leading pathology solution provider to global healthcare professionals. Transitioned from a lead to a purely technical role as high-profile project needed exclusive focus.Key Achievements:
• Contributed on multi-team greenfield project to migrate subset of desktop application functionality to a microservices architecture web application.
• Constructed SpecFlow step definitions, merged large data sets with 40% less step duplication, 30% faster test execution.
• Implemented Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline, led to defect detection 60% earlier.
• Produced mocked API responses in Selenium framework, 50% more robust tests, executed 35% faster.

Chertsey, England, United Kingdom

• Key Achievements:
• Superseded TestComplete with open-source WinAppDriver to test desktop app, saved £15,000 per annum in license fees.
• Cross-trained VBScript automation testers to adopt Selenium C#, improved test case creation speed by 40%.

Bracknell, UK

• Tested web-based software used by intermediaries for a specialist mortgage lender.Key Achievements:
• Partnered with consultant to efficiently automate 300 regression tests within 6 months, used Selenium C#.
• Coached manual testers, automated tests themselves by repurposing existing ones, boosted automation coverage by 40%.

Bourne End, United Kingdom

• Mission-critical desktop application, which serves the demanding transport and courier industry. Key Achievements:
• Introduced rigorous test methodologies which identified numerous deep-rooted defects, accumulated over 15+ years.
• Employed TestComplete to automate regression tests, reduced execution time from 3 days to 4 hours
• Instituted QA reviews during development phase, rework cycle reduced by 4 days and delivery velocity increased by 25%.

Maidenhead

• Fully accountable for testing COTS Windows C# /.Net application used to perform successful Windows OS upgrades.Key Achievements:
• Applied pairwise test technique, reduced cross-platform test case count by 80%, run time reduced by 10 hours.
• Constructed estate of bespoke virtualised environments for compatibility testing, achieved 100% test coverage.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

• Company delivered subsea simulation software to the Oil and Gas sector, Fugro being the parent company.Key Achievements:
• Built SmartBear TestComplete automation framework, regression test time down from 2 days to 1 hour.
• Integration-tested full-scale ROV hardware control console, facilitated successful training of 30 ROV pilots.

Wiltshire, United Kingdom

• Consultancy providing best-practice guidance and implementation of bespoke test solutions to meet business needs.Key Achievements:
• Harnessed Quality Centre and QuickTest Pro, reduced regression test execution time from 2 weeks to 3 days.
• Collaboratively automated 2,000 existing manual tests, completed 2 months ahead of schedule.

Johannesburg, South Africa

Performed consultancy role, delivering testing capability and methodologies to enhance testing maturity for client organisations in the financial services sector.

Pretoria, South Africa