Jonathan Darch Email & Phone Number

Hove, Gb

Hove, Brighton And Hove, United Kingdom

Grand Canal Quay, Dublin

Implementation of Temenos T24 products, migrating customer data, integrating with existing applications and decommissioning redundant applications as part of a multi-year Programme.• Facilitated, supported and enabled the efficient and effective management of all Defects to minimise the impact on cost and schedule; from initial identification, logging, triage, analysis, build, delivery/deployment, retest and closure.• Working extensively with 3rd party suppliers and services to agree communication methods, controls, reports and escalation points.• Used HP ALM Synchronizer to integrate Atlassian Jira and Requirements and Defects/issues with ALM.• Negotiated with stakeholders to discuss roles and agree project specific guidelines/constraints, outline delivery/deployment schedule, communication and any escalation/exception processes.• Worked with Test Managers and project teams to ensure that Defect management was included in the programme approach and integrated into the day-to-day working practices• Organised and chaired triage/review meetings with appropriate stakeholders to review and confirm: - Suitability, clarity and content for analysis/fix - Business Severity/impact - Priority of analysis/fix based on current test phase, project schedule/delivery and exit criteria - Appropriate updates to Status, ownership/assignment and next actions - Target fix/deployment date• Configured and customised HP ALM 12.50 fields, lists and workflow/VBA to validate inputs, enforce process/best-practice and enable quick and accurate MI/reporting using standard graphs and ALM Business Views Excel addin. • Reviewed and allocated appropriate root cause and injection point/activity to help identify improvements in process, tool and/or project deliverables.• Worked with the BoI Test Team to review and update existing ALM project template and associated process documentation and ALM field/list standardisation, definition and configuration.

London, United Kingdom

• Worked with JLP Pension team, Towers Watson, Capita, Capgemini and Legal & General to migrate members Pensions scheme from John Lewis.• Worked with the JLP Central Test Team to review and update QC/ALM project template and associated field/list standardisation, definition and configuration.

Hove City Park

Test Incident/Defect Manager for multiple releases, also provided test process/tool consultancy and support

Bankside, 90-100 Southwark Street, London Se1 0Sw

Test Incident/Defect Manager for multiple releases of global programme

Jersey, United Kingdom

• Creating GUI automation tests using Macro Scheduler Pro and SQL Server database calls to validate changes to Oracle Finance and Oracle Data Warehouse interfaces• Analysing business conversion requirements to create SQL scripts to check/validate data extraction and migration from iSeries/AS400 DB2 to SQL Server 2005 • Carry out Business and Test analysis activities to confirm impact of application changes on corporate accounting/finance policy

Crawley, East Sussex

• Data and software Configuration Management and audit of deployment of code, data and configuration changes into multiple target environments• Managing and controlling the release strategy and schedule of delivery into test environments• Scheduling and carrying out release approval (smoke) testing

• Analysed, designed and implemented cross programme improvements to defect management process including changes to HP Quality Centre roles, statuses and associated data and history using SQL• Designed infrastructure for HP QC cross project MI test progress reporting• Designed infrastructure and processes to migrate 150 projects from HP TestDirector 7.6 to HP QC 8.2• Defined and implemented enterprise wide strategic testing processes, procedures (Aligned to ISEB) and supporting test management tool• Defined Configuration Management and change control of processes for tool set-up and configuration data

• Managed the build and test of premium, benefit and illustrations calculation system for major life and pensions administration and servicing system• Managed a combined team of developers and actuaries; responsible for planning, design, build, fix and test activities to aggressive time scales• Budget control, status reporting and monitoring of teams activities and responsible for staff reviews and career development

• Developed and provided consolidated progress and error reporting processes and information for both internal senior management/stakeholders and external bodies • Managed error correction and business teams to minimise business/operational impact• Worked with business and system experts to develop Year 2000 test strategies for several of critical mainframe applications• Identified the needs and requirements for test automation tools, performed evaluations on selected tools and worked to ensure their successful implementation