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Leicester, Gb

Leicester, England, United Kingdom

Currently working in a full-time role for a national charity, supporting the I.T Manager on the day to day running of the I.T and support network for Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland.

Leicester, United Kingdom

Data analysis and data input.Simply CPD is a mobile app that is used by medical professionals to search for and book their continual professional development (CPD) courses. It brings doctors and course providers together, making booking onto courses and events simple.Doctors can recommend courses to friends, book directly with the course providers and ask any relevant questions, review the courses and share their experiences with colleagues.CPD or Continuing Professional Development is a key part of any doctors' career. SimplyCPD allows course organisers to advertise and market their courses, which doctors and other professionals can then book onto. Users are automatically matched up to relevant courses, within their area, taking the time out of searching through irrelevant courses.

Leicester, United Kingdom

November 2016 - September 2019Career Break - Implementing various projects including property renovations. January 2016 - October 2016Website Development and Maintenance consulting services for companies which included: • Website development using WordPress.• Website hosting maintenance.• Website database maintenance – MySQL• Website bug fixing and rectifying issues in cross-browser testing on desktop and mobile devices.• SEO optimization.• Google AdWords.• Digital marketing with social media - Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram.• Cloud storage optimisation.

Leicester, United Kingdom

Microsoft Dynamics CRM / SharePoint technologies.• Functional testing of bespoke subscription based Microsoft Dynamics CRM v2013 instances on a local test environment using a tiered architecture of Virtual Machines (CORE VM > APPS VM > SQL VM).• Creating test cases for custom-built Financial Wizards on the Windows platform using Microsoft One Note.• Regular liaison with Project Management, off-site developers to ensure software quality is improved and maintained using Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2013 and Microsoft Lync 2013.• Setup and control of the test environments i.e. Create an Organisation; export managed and unmanaged Solutions; import Solutions; Publish Customisations; restore and maintain SQL databases.• An Agile software development lifecycle methodology was utilised by the QA and development teams.

Leicester, United Kingdom

CMS, Forms, Search and Mobile Web technology • Setup CMS test team; defined the manual and automated testing methodology across all technical environments.• Functional / integration testing of CMS, Forms, Search and Mobile Web technologies sites in single tier / load balanced LAMP / WINS environments. • Writing black-box and UI test cases for cross browser testing on Windows / IOS / Android / Mobile / Tablet platforms.• Agile and Waterfall SDLC methodologies.• Management of outsourced remote test team based in India – managed 4 software testers.• Management of Junior Test Engineer based in Leicester.• Liaison with the Project Management, developers to ensure quality is improved and maintained.• Devising and implementing a test methodology that meets acceptable criteria.• Developing automated testing routines to avoid manual testing using the test tool Selenium.• Setup and control of the test environments.

Rearsby, Leicestershire

Corporate Credit Insurance • Sole Web Tester on the UK / USA / France / Belgium system rollout project; Created an overall test plan based on business / technical specifications then into manual test scripts, which involved me liaising with project management, developers and business analysts on a day to day basis. This helped the project to reach its ‘go live’ date with minimal risk to the business based on business critical needs.• Introduced the online bug tracking system BugTracker.NET into the migration project which I installed and configured to the client’s requirements, implemented the automated test suite Test Complete v4.31 into the development environment.• Created and executed functional test scripts (manual and automated) for the lifecycle of a global upgrade / data migration project involving an internal .NET web application built within the .NET / SQL Server 2000 environment using a remoting infrastructure. This required functional testing on the internal company application and also web testing on the external credit insurance web front / back end. The scripts were created based on business / technical specifications (into an overall Test Plan) then into test scripts, which involved me liaising with project management, developers and business analysts on a day to day basis.• Issues were raised and logged with development through an online bug tracking system BugTracker.NET which I installed and configured to the client’s requirements.• Controlled the test bed and user acceptance test environments.• Implemented the automated test suite Test Complete v4.31 into the development / testing environment.

Leicester, United Kingdom

Microsoft Gold Partner CRM solution provider • Pivotal role in creating the development test team; assisted in the selection process of the newly formed test team, defined the manual and automated testing methodology.• Instrumental in designing automated test scripts using IBM Rational Test Studio (Rational Robot) in SQA Basic for full functionality and regression testing which reduced software bugs and improved overall software quality.• Managed Microsoft Certification test projects, e.g. Windows XP, SQL 2000 certification.• Lead Software Tester for a Microsoft Gold partner software consultancy developing Microsoft-centric CRM and Call Centre software in the .NET environment.• Implementation of IBM Rational Test Studio into the department. Scripted automated test scripts using IBM Rational Test Studio (Rational Robot) for full functionality and regression testing.• Created VB.NET test scripts to test server side processes (white-box testing).• Identifying manual & automated test strategy and test execution plans; Defined the different types of test cases for the test environment, documented test plans / scripts / analysing test results / conclusion analysis and identifying issues / problems areas with development. Re-testing issues fixed in new builds.• Managing Microsoft Certification test projects e.g. XP and SQL 2000 certification at VeriTest - Ireland.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Software Testing Consultancy • Employed as a Test Consultant for Integrated Testing Solutions Limited (ITSL), at various client sites throughout the UK. The role involved Test Analyst and Test Operator duties; defining test strategy and test execution plans, documenting and analysing test results / issues and identifying problem areas, all based on Test Methodology. The role involved assignments at the following client sites: www.hy-phen.com and www.workthing.com - Cambridge / London• Early e-commerce ventures which involved the functional testing of recruitment websites. www.going-places.co.uk - Woking• Systems and functional testing of an Intranet server system.

Watford, United Kingdom

Professional Services provider• Tested client/server applications for Y2K compliance in accordance with a Y2K test methodology standard.• This encompassed the following processes which were fully documented to adhere to ISO 9001: test project initiation, test user meeting, test product questionnaire, test scoping, test estimate, designing the test plan, test script production and documenting results / recommendations.• Full lifecycle testing was carried out and encompassed static, dynamic and functional testing processes. Testing was performed on all date related functionality to ensure that the systems worked pre, during and post Year 2000 until 2019. Finally, user acceptance testing was carried out after having the User Representative involved from the beginning as a document reviewer / signatory participant. The role also involved meeting users and travel to various sites in the London area to learn and understand the systems and third party packages that required Y2K testing.• Resource support with Project Managers / Head of IT for project support and reporting activities.

Watford, United Kingdom

Project support.

Foundation Certificate, Software Testing, Pass - 88%

June 2005

Education record

October 2013 - http://www.ministryoftesting.com Objectives: What is BDD and how it changes or influences the development process. Where do.

Education record

Courses covering relational databases: theory and practice – SQL, C++, Smalltalk. Feb 2008 – M359 Relational databases: theory.