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As part of the integration of Beagle Street into One Family , working to define and streamline the path to production for IT change across the businessThis involves the initial set up of a DevOps function to establish best practice guidelines and roll out of training across the group with the aim of making product teams self-sufficient for cloud provision and maintenance across our Azure and AWS estate.In addition to the DevOps work, accountable for redefining the One Family test policy and test engineering teams to support the remodeled and fully integrated business

Peterborough, England, United Kingdom

Accountable for Test Engineering, Software Release, Service Delivery, IT Support and the early steps with this team into the world of DevOps. In the latter stages of 2022, worked as part of the team to define the Transitionary Services Agreement to support the Beagle Street business as it was sold from BGLi to One Family

Lead and manage a team of test engineers working in an Agile delivery team building software designed to 'Make Life Insurance accessible'. Starting as the only test engineer, implemented an automated regression test framework and alongside some talented engineers working on a microservice architecture lead the team from fixed fortnightly to daily releases to productionAs well as the test team, established a dedicated support function for the Life insurance systems developed in house and acted as the point of contact and service delivery function for BGL who were the parent company

Trained and mentored an existing Waterfall test team to adapt into an Agile methodologyDefined and implemented the Test Strategy for the team across all IT disciplinesDefined Test Automation approachImplemented new Release and Configuration Management procedures

Various roles with the QA team starting in User Acceptance TestingWorked on a number of high profile group projects including new affinity scheme builds, re-engineering of legacy systems and on the Groups early .net ecommerce implementationsLed the testing of the Groups first self service centre, and replacement ecommerce platformsInstigated the Groups Test Policy as the IT department was divisionalised

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Digital And Technology Solutions - It Consultancy, 1St

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