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Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Starting a new role today 16/01/23 as Programme Test Manager at Admiral based in Cardiff.

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

At the beginning of 2022 BPF recruited a permanent Head of Test and I have since provided my full support to the new incumbent. I have supported both as a deputy in the day to day running of the Test community and in my new role as End-to-End Test Manager for the Sustain portfolio. Barclays Partner Finance Tech and Change are in a period of transition as.

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

I was asked to take up the Head of Test role at BPF until such a time as Barclays could recruit as suitable permanent candidate. As Head of Test at Barclays Partner Finance (BPF) I was responsible for all things test related in the BPF portfolio. I led a team of nine Test Leads working across Agile Scrum teams to drive the Test Strategy forward. My team.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

As Test Lead working under an Agile methodology, I was now responsible for the Test Management of up to 5 Agile Scrum Teams. The initial portfolio of Business Outcomes/Features included Financial Audit, Debt Sales, Vulnerable Customers, Apple Upgrade UI, Dealer Settlements, Credit Balances, Payment Protection Services and SMS/Digital Communication. In this.

Telford, United Kingdom

This short-term contract working for Capgemini had me performing the role of Test Manager on the HMRC (aspire) account. The role was based in the Telford office and required SC clearance. Due to the sensitive nature of the project I was working on I am unable to go into the detail of the systems involved. What I am able to share is that it was a Technical.

Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom

This was fixed six-month contract with Steria as the Account Test Manager on the Ministry of Justice account. In this role I was responsible for all testing carried out by Steria on behalf of the Ministry of Justice. The portfolio, whilst I was in position, included one large project ‘Transforming Rehabilitation (TR)’ (30 testers), numerous small to medium.

Bournemouth/Swindon

I have just completed a 21 month contract working as Project Test Manager at the Nationwide Building Society based in Swindon/Bournemouth. In the role of Project Test Manager I was responsible for managing the testing of a large Mortgage migration project. My responsibilities included the production of Master Test Plan, a detailed Test Plan per test phase.

I have just started in a new role as Test Manager at Everything Everywhere (Orange/T-Mobile) in Bristol. I will be test managing several projects within the Commercial Team.

I returned to EADS in January 2010 as Project Test Manager on the FiReControl Project. I had specific responsibility for managing Test Assurance of the sub-project deliveries from fourteen international suppliers, as well as acting as deputy to the overall Programme Test Manager who was responsible for the management and governance of all FiReControl.

At Orange I worked through testing consultancy Transition Consulting Limited. During this short term Consultacy contract I carried out an analysis of testing on the OUK Data Warehouse (Dwh) systems on behalf of the OUK Test and Validation Department. At the time Dwh systems did not fall under the remit of OUK Validation and Test and as such did not follow.

At M&S I worked through testing consultancy Steria. I performed the role of Test Manager on the Future Foods Forecasting and Supplier Ordering Project. The project involved interfacing the existing Foods legacy systems at M&S with the new Forecast and Ordering system Q. In this role I was responsible for QA of all testing on the project as well as managing.

At EADS I worked through testing consultancy Transition Consulting Limited. Having initially performed the role of Test Team Lead on the FiReControl Programme I was promoted to the role of Test and Verification Project Manager for FiReControl. As T&V Project Manager I was responsible for the management and governance of all FiReControl programme test.

At Orange I worked through a testing consultancy called Transition Consulting Limited. Here I performed the role of Test Manager test managing multiple projects in parallel. As Test Manager I was responsible for all testing activities carried out within my projects. These activities included the production of a Test Strategy, the production of a Test to.

At O2 I filled the role of User Acceptance Test Manager on their Companion UK Project. Companion comprises O2’s Customer Service Systems including the Online web based Customer Shop system. The project was run in partnership with IBM and as such I was based at IBM in Hursley.As UAT Manager for the Shops work stream I was responsible for managing the test.

The role involved managing User Acceptance Testing all system enhancements provided by the 3rd party software supplier as well as managing the System Testing all of system enhancements provided in-house. This involved gathering all business and client requirements, reviewing test cases prepared by test analysts and planning and managing the execution of.

Halifax Card Services were to provide a new web GUI Front End to their existing Green Screen Customer Service System - BWMS. My main role on this project was Test Case preparation writing, User Acceptance Testing as well as carrying out the role of Defect Manager within the BWMS testing team. My first task here was to carry out an evaluation of the.

HBS were offering new entrants to the Electricity Supply Market a complete Customer Service package, which includes providing them with a Customer Registration and Billing system. HBS teamed up with two software houses to provide them with an Oracle based system to perform this task.At this stage of this project my main role was that of User Acceptance.

This contract relates to the project specified above.My role as Requirements Team Leader on this project involved leading a small team of Business Analyst to gather the specific requirements of each client. The requirements were documented before being passed on to the design and development team who tailored the base registration and billing system to.

Initially, on my return to Hyder, I held the position of IDEAL/DATACOM A/P on the 1998 De-regulation of the Electricity business project. This project was successfully implemented in December 1998. (see below for further detail)I then moved on to the position of Team Leader/Business Analyst on the ‘Hyder Customer Services Electricity (HCS (E)) Project. The.

PHH are one of the UK’s largest Fleet Car Management and Fuel Card Service Companies. My time at PHH was spent on the ‘Wheels’ project. PHH had recently merged with one of their rivals, and it was the objective of the ‘Wheels’ project to migrate all their rivals clients and the services to which they were contracted onto the PHH Fleet Car Management and.

I performed the role of Team Manager charged with amending SWALECs legacy Monthly Billed Customer Service System to ensure they were able to compete in the electricity supply market on de-regulation in April 1998. The Monthly system is IDEAL/DATACOM based and was implemented in 1991. The 1998 project involved writing some 30 new IDEAL programs and amending.

During the period specified I performed the role of Team Leader/Business Analyst of the Data Collection and Meter Management/Inventory team on the LUSIS Customer Services (LCS) project. The LCS system, currently being developed, is multi-utility Customer Services System which will replace SWALECs electricity and gas legacy customer service systems as well.

I spent the first 11 years of my career working for SWALEC. During that period I filled a wide range of positions including Analyst/Programmer (A/P), Test Team Leader, Business Analyst and Project Manager.