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.

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.

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.
• Migration to a new Data Canter

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.

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.

• 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

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.

• 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.
• 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