Alan Richardson Email & Phone Number

St Albans, GB

London, England, GB

• Improving process and code.
• Advising and mentoring projects on Agile Development and Automated Testing
• Architecting and programming AWS hosted micro-services with Kotlin with Spring Boot
• Experience with DevOps tooling for Docker, Telepresence, Terraform, Gitlab
• Maintenance, Unit Testing and feature coding for a TypeScript AWS hosted Financial Reconciliation system with a React UI

St Albans, Hertfordshire, GB

• I work as an independent consultant, trainer, author and contractor. I have worked in the Banking sector, gaming, media and a host of other industries. I help teams improve their approach to Agile development and.
• Pairing with developers to improve Unit test and Integration test approaches
• Hands on Testing and Automating for APIs, Web and Mobile
• Consultancy reviews of development teams to create improvement plans for Agile, TDD, Testing and Automating.
• Created online training courses for WebDriver and Technical Exploratory Testing
• Created abstraction layers for WebDriver automation using Java and C#.Net

St Albans, Hertfordshire, GB

https://www.compendiumdev.co.uk/page/tracksapibookA Case study of Testing and Automating the Open Source Tracks REST API using: Java, RestAssured, Postman, cURL and HTTP Proxies.This new book is a well rounded and detailed look at the thought processes and techniques for testing a REST API based application.Starting with interactive testing using the GUI.

St Albans, Hertfordshire, GB

► http://eviltester.com/page/dearEvilTester/"Dear Evil Tester" contains advice that might change your test approach forever. Our reviewers said: "something completely different, "I loved it", "I couldn't put it down", "fantastic questions and answers, nothing is held back!", "I laughed - then I cried - then I laughed harder - then I cried softer", "Read it.

London, England, GB

Control of all social media, YouTube video creation, Digital PR, Ads (Google Ads and other networks), content syndication, conference organising.Content:- create technical content for the blog with example applications- Creating and editing Youtube videos- Creating, editing and commissioning external blog posts- Organising Customer and User Case Study.

Sydney, New South Wales, AU

- Creating explanatory source code to help onboard users and demonstrate tool capabilities. Open Sourced to Github. These are mixed media repos with: code, readme.md and video links- Improving documentation to improve initial user experience and onboarding- SEO and Feature analysis of JetBrains Marketplace to boost tool visibility and increase downloads.

Working with small business and Tech startups to help them use Social Media to get their message out, increase leads and achieve more sales. Online Digital Marketing works best with it has the voice of the company behind it, I help companies identify and implement the strategies themselves rather than outsource the work to someone else. My Technical.

- Created code to move Blogger and Wordpress sites to Hugo.- Created Java code to migrate Patreon content to Hugo- Created Hugo templates and CSS for refreshed website- Created code to download videos from Vimeo and YouTube- UTM and post effectiveness tracking via UMT.io- Marketing plans created using MarketPlan.io to allow live metric tracking- Custom.

Watford, Hertfordshire, GB

• Agile Test Consultant - some achievements:
• Provided coaching in Agile, Exploratory Testing, Automated Testing
• Created GUI Web Automation using WebDriver & Java, with abstractions for page objects, navigation, domain objects, functional flows, entities.
• REST API Automation using Java with abstraction layers built on top of Apache HTTP libraries
• Performed exploratory testing of Web App, documenting using text files and Atlassian Bonfire
• Installed and configured initial tool infrastructure for the project: Atlassian, SVN, Jenkins, FitNesse, Linux VMs

London, GB

• An Agile development programme building a new financial trading exchange.
• Conducting exploratory testing embedded within the agile team and iteration.
• Mentored and coached the testers to improve the depth and written history of manual exploratory testing
• Worked with the developers to improve the automated acceptance tests using Selenium and domain level abstractions.
• Amended reporting utilities to provide a single page view of changes, stories and failing tests for each release candidate.
• Changed the testing recruitment process to bring in more technical testers

London, London, GB

• In the IS New Media department I managed a group of testers spread across a variety of projects. Some projects working with Agile methods, others using short timescales and less Agile, but pragmatic approaches.
• Improved the exploratory testing, increasing technical ability of the testers
• Taught testers how to take effective notes of their exploratory testing to communicate the testing conducted
• Created scripts to 'pull' summary reports of exploratory testing out of Jira to collate notes made against a story into 'daily' summaries - to aid session based debriefing. These were automatically uploaded into.
• Created abstraction layers for the web sites and applications to allow us to write Selenium-RC tests faster
• Taught the testers how to use Selenium-RC (this led to my writing the book "Selenium Simplified")

Brentford, Middlesex, GB

• I help Agile projects improve their testing.
• Helped teams introduce Selenium Automation into their testing
• Worked with outsourced companies to increase their technical testing, introduce exploratory testing, and improve communication
• Improved exploratory testing and technical skills of our in team testers
• Worked with the 'central test organisation' to tailor their 'standard' process and make it light weight for our teams
• Used AutoIt to help test desktop applications

Leeds, West Yorkshire, GB

• Mainly working at BP as a Test Manager developed and implemented a test approach for XML messaging based tool.Highlights:
• Developed an XSLT tool chain for confirming requirements implementation of a Tibco XML messaging interface, allowed us to identify defects in the specification prior to systems being developed

As a consultant I got to work on a lot of different projects across different industries: Post Office Counters, London Electricity, British Airways, JP Morgan.I developed test strategies, managed test teams, worked as a test analyst, created automated tests in WinRunner and proprietary automation tools. I also mentored testing staff and users. I gained.

A programme between LCMS (then Software Testing Science in Nov 1993) and the University of Westminster, partly funded by the DTI. Programmed a number of CAST tools and performed Test consultancy. Was fortunate enough to receive mentoring from a number of experienced Software Testing Consultants.Programmed a Test Repository CAST tool based on an SSADM Test.

I worked on a First Person Shooter published by SCi and GT Interactive. I wrote a promotional short story and the scripts for the in game character encyclopaedia.

Coding and maintenance of a JSP CASE tool, running under DOS and Windows 3.1. Responsible for the addition of a COBOL interpreter to allow the designs to be executed dynamically.