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United Arab Emirates

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dubai

★ Strategic Leadership: Created the Automation Strategy, leading a team skilled Automation Engineers, and laid down robust best practices across Web, Middleware, and Mobile App domains. Instrumental in the modern shift to Automated testing techniques. ★ CI/CD Transformation: Initiated the transition from manual builds to automated pipelines, leveraging.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

★ Created Quality Engineering strategies, establishing key metrics and integrating cutting-edge Test Automation best practices.★ Crafted efficient nodeJS automation frameworks utilizing webdriver.io and devised Scala-based performance suites with Gatling.★ Partnered with DevOps to streamline integration pipelines, elevating the continuous integration and.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

★ Based on-site at HMRC, I was the key point of contact for all QA aspects of releases.★ Lead and Mentor QA Teams.★ Develop Automate Scala-based UI, API, and Performance Test frameworks.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

★ Acted as the on-site lead for all QA Automation elements throughout Agile release phases.★ Steered and nurtured QA teams, emphasizing best practices and fostering skill development among junior QA members.★ Innovated and deployed automated Scala-based frameworks for UI, API, and performance testing, benefiting ~16 scrum teams.★ Fostered enhanced.

Mediacity, Salford, United Kingdom

★ Championed test automation for the revamped iPlayer TV mobile app on Android and iOS. Championed the Behavioral Driven Development (BDD) framework, orchestrating collaboration among Business Analysts, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Developers, and QA Engineers.★ Developed and launched the BBC's inaugural native mobile automation framework using a robust.

Europe wide.

★ As the lead for a hybrid team of manual and automated test engineers, I initially charted a strategic direction for automated testing. This culminated in the conception, design, and rollout of a user-friendly, cost-efficient, and low-maintenance test suite, utilizing the Ruby/Watir-WebDriver framework.Note: September - March 2014:After leaving to take up.

Mediacity, Salford, United Kingdom

★ Collaborated with a pioneering Agile team to bring the innovative responsive web application of BBC iPlayer Radio to life.★ Introduced and spearheaded state-of-the-art automated testing frameworks for responsive web applications, marking a first for the BBC by utilizing actual mobile devices. Additionally, orchestrated Jenkins workflows to bolster.

Northwich, Cheshire. United Kingdom.

★ Collaborated on diverse E-Commerce and Media web applications, overseeing comprehensive quality assurance facets.★ Pioneered the integration of the inaugural Java-based Selenium WebDriver framework, a strategic move that significantly accelerated time-to-market.

Berlin, Germany

Primary responsibility was to ensure the quality of Nokia's location based service Ovi Maps. Automate user stories, build a maintainable automated regression test package, produce weekly test reports, test planning, test specification creation, error reporting, error analysis and all other aspects of QA activities.Key Technologies Employed:T-Driver, Ruby.

Salford, England, United Kingdom

★ Perform all aspects of software quality assurance for the testing of third-party Series 60 device applications.