Gary Boyes Email & Phone Number

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Leeds, United Kingdom

I was a Business Test Manager / Quality Engineer working in a testing capacity on a wide variety of projects within Lloyds Banking Group including Workday HR system and IFRS 9 Credit Risk using both Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid software development methodolgiesMy main responsibilitieswere:- analysis of business requirements;- design risk based test cases and scripts, ensuring adequate requirement coverage and traceability between business requirements and test cases;- conduct… Show more I was a Business Test Manager / Quality Engineer working in a testing capacity on a wide variety of projects within Lloyds Banking Group including Workday HR system and IFRS 9 Credit Risk using both Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid software development methodolgiesMy main responsibilitieswere:- analysis of business requirements;- design risk based test cases and scripts, ensuring adequate requirement coverage and traceability between business requirements and test cases;- conduct peer reviews of test scripts;- co-ordinate activities between Unit Test, CIT, UAT and SIT, supporting entry and exit criteria between phases and cycles;- test resource estimation;- test execution planning;- test execution;- defect and incident management;- defining the overall test strategy, approach and plan for individual Releases;- monitor test progress, identify slippages, make recommendations for recovery strategies;- ensures that stakeholder buy-in and sign‐off is obtained for all test deliverables;- develop / maintain effective working and influencing relationships;- user of HP ALM / QC and SAS Enterprise Guide. Show less

West Yorkshire

My main responsibilities in this team were:- manage the end to end User Acceptance and Regression Testing processes of changes to the mortgage capital and impairment forecasting application used to produce regulatory capital and impairment numbers;- act as Subject Matter Expert, providing support to and influencing of changes to upstream IT systems and data items that are used to produce Basel capital and impairment numbers;• perform a risk assurance function, ensuring the “Route To… Show more My main responsibilities in this team were:- manage the end to end User Acceptance and Regression Testing processes of changes to the mortgage capital and impairment forecasting application used to produce regulatory capital and impairment numbers;- act as Subject Matter Expert, providing support to and influencing of changes to upstream IT systems and data items that are used to produce Basel capital and impairment numbers;• perform a risk assurance function, ensuring the “Route To Live” change approach is adhered to;- manage stakeholders, ensure they are kept informed, are appropriately engaged, resolve their issues and concerns, recommend courses of action and inform their decision making;- write and present change proposals at senior management change forums;- work with Audit and Group Policy to ensure Basel model changes are compliant with key LBG policies (Basel Model Development and Implementation Policy, End User Computing Policy); Show less

West Yorkshire

My main responsibilities in this team were:- end-to end delivery of new products and propositions (explore, design, develop, launch, assess sales performance) in accordance with NPD process;- work collaboratively with Mortgage teams during the NPD process (eg: risk, finance, distribution, IT) to deliver new products and propositions;- write and present customer and product propositions to key Mortgage committees (Mortgage Operating Committee, Mortgage Business Risk Committee);-… Show more My main responsibilities in this team were:- end-to end delivery of new products and propositions (explore, design, develop, launch, assess sales performance) in accordance with NPD process;- work collaboratively with Mortgage teams during the NPD process (eg: risk, finance, distribution, IT) to deliver new products and propositions;- write and present customer and product propositions to key Mortgage committees (Mortgage Operating Committee, Mortgage Business Risk Committee);- produce briefs for 3rd Party research companies to conduct qualitative research via Focus Groups;- write and present change requests for IT funding to support new product structures and propositions;- Secretary of the NPD Innovation Forum, maintaining the NPD pipeline;- line manager to 3 product innovation specialists. Show less