Francesca Mainwaring Email & Phone Number

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

As a Delivery Manager, I play a pivotal role in the Apollo Programme, a key strategic initiative designed to deliver an advanced platform that leverages data as a core asset. I lead large, complex work streams, guiding a dedicated scrum team to enhance customer, intermediary, and colleague experiences, resulting in stay-ahead propositions that.

Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

• Strategic Support for Product Delivery: Assisted the Head of Product Delivery in facilitating seamless delivery of product changes across Tribes, helping implement a new agile framework that increased delivery speed by.
• Tribe Coordination and Protection: Coordinated product change across each Tribe, removing blockers and protecting teams from outside distractions, fostering an environment conducive to focused work.
• Agile Project Delivery Management: Led day-to-day agile project delivery management activities, coaching squads in effective use of agile frameworks and ceremonies.
• Centralised Point of Contact: Served as a central point of contact for project delivery across each Tribe, ensuring effective communication and coordination.
• Robust Agile Delivery Plans: Built and maintained robust agile delivery plans, continuously communicating with project, business, and operational stakeholders to ensure alignment.
• Continual Improvement Initiatives: Managed the implementation of continual improvement initiatives, enhancing our delivery processes and strategies.

Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

• Managed a team of Technical Analysts, conducting monthly 121s and supporting their development. This included successful resource planning to ensure optimal team performance.
• Coordinated product change activities across two Product Delivery Teams, collaborating closely with Product Managers to prioritise backlogs.
• Utilised various modelling techniques for business, process, and data to effectively capture and articulate project requirements.
• Used analysis, logical reasoning, and problem-solving skills to challenge stakeholders and ensure accurate project requirements.
• Worked collaboratively with stakeholders, ensuring evidence and proposals were thoroughly examined for optimal outcomes.
• Identified and documented root cause analysis, implementing improvements to prevent issue recurrence.

Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

• Experienced test specialist with a background in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies, TDD framework, and various testing areas including functional, non-functional, manual, and user acceptance testing.
• Configured both test and live systems in line with business requirements to ensure expedient and continued delivery.
• Developed and maintained multiple regression test packs and smoke test suites, creating test plans, strategies, and providing estimates on testing resources.
• Reported testing progress to key stakeholders, delivering within project time scales.
• Supported and complied with testing processes and procedures, providing ideas for improvements.
• Experienced in performing functional, integration, regression, Ad-Hoc/Exploratory, system, and user acceptance testing.

Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom