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Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

• SRT is the global leader in maritime surveillance, management & safety technologies & systems. After 4 years in the Test Team at SRT, I was handpicked by the Chief Product Officer to temporarily backfill a Product.
• Owning the visualisation and usability aspect of our GeoVS product. This is often working with large and complex data sets and trying to display them to our customer in a user-friendly way. Feedback for the two major.
• Planning and prioritising product backlog.
• Convert high level requirements from various internal (including C-Suite) and external stakeholders into detailed epics and user stories to ensure they are understood and can be actioned by the Systems Development team.
• Mitigate roadblocks to achieving both sprint and release goals.
• Provide continuous feedback loop to Systems Development Team to ensure requirements are well understood and add product value.

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

• Internal promotion within the Test Team. Similar responsibilities to previous role, with some notable additions:
• Author test reports at the end of each test cycle which is distributed to key stakeholders within the business.
• Leading a team of 3 Senior Test Engineers who directly reported to me. I was responsible for resource management, recruitment, and mentorship.

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

• Internal promotion within the Test Team. Similar responsibilities to previous role, with some notable additions:
• Review and sign off test scripts authored by junior members of the team.
• Introduced the use of Postman to test APIs to the team. This involved giving a detailed demo to the immediate team and a more high-level lunch and learn session to wider stakeholders. This allowed the Test Team to.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

• Test Engineer focused on the GeoVS application which made use of Java, Unity and Angular technologies. Responsibilities included:
• Author and review test cases, building test suites to ensure that the products meet acceptance criteria and customer requirements.
• Execute test cases and provide regular feedback to the Test Lead on overall quality of the product.
• Defect management through Jira.
• Work closely with the Software Development, Product Management and Delivery teams to gain product knowledge and domain knowledge.

Pencoed, Bridgend, United Kingdom

• Integration and Test Engineer on the world’s first mobile diabetes management system which is made up of an insulin pump, activity monitor and a cellular-enabled wireless touchscreen handset with automatic connectivity.
• Managing the full testing life cycle - inputting into test strategy, writing test plans and scripts and ensuring the quality of all new releases on both the handset and pump.
• Regularly update both the pump and handset test protocols based on requirements documentation.
• Work with various internal stakeholders including staff from Marketing, Quality, Regulatory, Engineering and Manufacturing.
• Drive continuous improvements through root cause analysis of defects and ensure quality through all project stages.
• Defect management through SpiraTeam.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

• Internal promotion within the Test Team. Similar responsibilities to previous role, with some notable additions:
• Produce Test Estimates, Test Strategy, Test Plan and Test Completion Report for each Test Phase.
• Produce and maintain a Test Run Plan based on Design/Development Team’s estimates. Updated every few hours due to a very tight timescale and an end date that could not be shifted right. Test resource would then be.
• Walked external stakeholders through original Run Plan. Due to previous failures, there were concerns that Target Group would not be able to complete all testing before the agreed date and to a sufficient quality..
• Co-ordinate work for 15 Test Analysts. This includes approving/rejecting overtime as per project needs.
• Review and sign off test scripts and test evidence completed by Test Analysts.

Newport, United Kingdom

• Test Analyst on the Xavi Phase 3 project which manages direct debit mandate registration, payment collection and direct debit management capabilities to allow the DVLA a simpler process to collect vehicle tax..
• Define the scope of testing required based on requirements document, solution documents and interaction with internal and external stakeholders.
• Set up test data in test environments using SQL.
• Design, review and execute test scenarios and test cases in Zephyr.
• Record and report test progress and results in Zephyr, including any defects found.
• Defect and change management through Jira.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Acting Lead Test Analyst on the first and second phase of the national GP System Software Delivery Project, responsible for assuring requirements defined within new supplier contracts to deliver updated 3rd party GP System Software across Wales over.* Responsible for test management and quality assurance of GP system software being delivered by two third.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Test Analyst on the first and second phase of the national GP System Software Delivery Project, responsible for assuring requirements defined within new supplier contracts to deliver updated 3rd party GP System Software across Wales.* Responsible for test management and quality assurance of GP system software being delivered by two third party suppliers.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Work on various national projects that are used accross NHS Wales.Project - WCCGA 3rd party solution, adoped by NWIS which is now implemented across 97% of GP practices in Wales. Main objective of the project is to introduce efficiencies and safer working practices around sending electronic clinical communication between healthcare representatives across.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Pencoed, South Wales

Bridgend, Wales, United Kingdom

Gcses And A-Levels

Achieved 3 A-Levels - Applied Mathematics (B), Chemistry (D) and Business Studies (C) as well as one AS-Level - Physics (C) Also achieved.

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