Gary Pool Email & Phone Number

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

A short term part time 20 hours a week contract as a Test Manager/Test Consultant for the MBIE Payroll Team. To work with the business team to Provide and document a test process, structure and test plan to upgrade the Payroll/Kiosk AMS application from windows sever 2008/SQL2008 to Windows Server 2012/SQL2012. The test process documented and agreed was handed over to the MBIE payroll business team to provide a quality test process and structure for future releases

Test Manager for the following projects. Responsible for delivery and planning of testing, test management activities, operational management of testers and co-ordination with vendors Desktop upgrades (BAU) – part of the monthly security upgrades A number of BAU projects Heart Beat, customer survey application SharePoint document project Enterprise Vault upgrade HRIS projects Annual Payroll Indexation Firewall upgrade for the ACC Data Centres Client Payments project: large project to replace the client payroll legacy system, Pathway, with a new case management payroll system, EOS. Responsible for delivery and planning of testing, test management activities, operational management of a large team of testers (18) and co-ordination with vendors

Wellington

Test Management and hands on testing for the following projects • Office 365 • My Connect – Westpac Intranet upgrade • FlexEquip – large corporate asset management application• Crisp – SharePoint project for financial document management Programme Test Manager Jeremiah Programme and Jericho Programme responsibility for the Test Strategy and Test Management for Westpac and various vendors The Jeremiah Programme is a large Infrastructure and Workplace programme of work with IBM including the following:• Migration to a new Data Canter• New mainframe build • Migration Of Lotus Notes to Microsoft Outlook• Associated new hardwareProgramme Jericho Programme Test Manager Jericho Programme responsibility for the Testing Strategy and Test Management for Westpac, Spark and Vodafone The Jericho Programme is a large Infrastructure and Workplace Telco programme of work including the following: • Migration to Vodafone – migration of WNZL's mobility requirements from Spark to Vodafone. This includes an upgrade of WNZL's mobile fleet to smart devices and the Implementation of new mobile fleet management services • Upgrade of WNZL's Branch and Corporate Data Networks – WNZL's Branch and Corporate Data Network will be upgraded through delivery of fibre and wireless to remaining Sites, bandwidth increase, improved resiliency of back up circuits and equipment refresh. • Upgrade of WNZL's Remote ATM Data Network – WNZL's remote ATM network will be upgraded through increased delivery of fibre to remote ATM sites, increased bandwidth and equipment refresh. • Internet Upgrade – WNZL's internet capability will be improved through the implementation of a dual supply model with both Spark and Vodafone providing internet capability direct to WNZL. Spark will implement new management services for internet.

Wellington

The Test Capability Manager is accountable for the end-to-end delivery of the test service capability within Information Technology. This role is responsible for managing an external Test Capability as well as detailing processes and enforcement to advance testing in Kiwi Rail’s IT division. With an aim to ensure quality, compliance and timeliness of testing deliverables, as well as efficiency of tasks, progress and reporting. Review the current Test Process and Methodology with an aim to implement improvements to the testing methodology and standards across the Kiwi Rail, IT Testing Services.

Business Change Manager Business Change Manager NZ Link – Domestic Payment Operating model Dec 2010 to June 2011. Test Management across a Programme of Work involving:Infrastructure ProjectsService management ProjectsWork Place ProjectsResponsible for delivery of all phases of testing including, managing testers, stakeholder management and vendor management

Wellington

Test Manger for two projects on a Data Compliance Programme. These two projects are ensuring data compliance with the separation of Telecom into three businesses in line with Government legislation. The main goal of my role is to ensure that regulatory requirements are successfully delivered and correctly implemented in timeframes while ensuring day to day business activities can still be carried out. Responsible for:All testing on the project including, Function, System Integration, and Business Acceptance Testing,Stakeholder managementVendor Management

Team Leader for up to 18 testers which included a functional team and the technical testing team Responsibilities included:• Resource management of testing resources to ensure utilisation targets are met• Leadership of team to ensure all mandatory compliance expectations are met to maintain or improve organisations compliance ratings• Forward planning of resource requirements to assist Competency leader in developing strategies to meet upcoming demand (peaks and troughs)• Conduct regular team and 1on1 meetings with all team members• Mentoring of team members through document peer reviews, code reviews and coaching• Conduct performance reviews• Operational overseeing of projects my teams are involved inTest Manager for a Internet Banking replacement project. Responsible for: All testing on the project including, function, system integration, UAT, performance testing and security testing.• Responsible for running of the Test Team with up to 11 testers.• Stakeholder management• Vendor Management

Sydney

Test Manager and Iteration Manager on a second factor internet banking project Responsible of all phases of testing using Agile Methodology including:• Functional – SIT• UAT• Automation• Security • PerformanceResponsible for Managing 9 testers and the UAT Test Manager. As well as Test Manger I was also one of the two Scrum Masters for the project and was responsible for overall management of iteration activities this included:• Coordination of all project teams• Status tracking• Issue tracking• Escalation point for all project teams

Test Management across a number of different projects and programmes of work.This included overall responsibility for the direction, strategy and delivery of testing Test Methodology Consultant Role and responsibilities included: • Define and document the test methodology and test process for Testing Services.• Define the testing estimation process• Define the testing artefacts and deliverables, including guidelines to complete, inputs/outputs, roles involved, owner and metrics• Define the roles and responsibilities for Testing Services• Document implementation plan and start roll out for the new methodology• Prepare presentation pack for Test Methodology road show.• Support early adopters of the methodology with coaching and consultation