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England, United Kingdom

London

The Head of QA & Test had overall responsibility for the quality assurance and testing of standards for APIs, enabling financial institutions to deliver Open Banking within the UK, as directed by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), for the testing of the Support Services functions and the testing of an Open Banking Directory of the users of the.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

RBS - Williams & Glyn DivestmentResponsible for the management and coordination of the testing of the credit reference products and services delivered as part of the Experian portfolio to stand up the new bank of Williams & Glyn.Managed the testing of the integration between the Williams & Glyn Experian products and the banks systems until RBS's strategic.

Bilston

Responsible for the quality of the delivery and integration of an Oracle Supply Chain solution across 22 sites throughout Europe, focusing on solution quality and business readiness through a programme of testing and training. Each roll out was preceded by a risk based model office UAT, culminating in an exercise involving 5 countries, in a single location.

Europe

Test manager for all tactical aspects of delivering a quality ERP solution to 16 companies across 16 countries throughout Europe following a waterfall life cycle. The management of the UAT within each country by deploying a risk based model office approach. This included the managing of the defects resulting from this testing, using Quality Center, through.

Providing testing consultancy on the HBOS integration programme.

Providing testing consultancy on several projects including re-branded internet and intranet solutions.

Responsible for the management of a small team of testing consultants to oversee the testing and to ensure the delivered quality, from blueprint to deployment, of a new SAP (ECC & CRM) solution, using model office techniques.

Acceptance testing manager on a global data relocation project managing testing in the UK, Ireland, Netherlands, France, Slovakia, USA, Canada, Brazil, Japan, China, and India.

Responsible for ensuring new servers were installed and tested, then installed in the production racks.

Basel II Capital Reporting ProgrammeHoliday cover for a colleague.Even though I had only 2 days to get up to speed on this project I still managed to bring the system in several days earlier than originally planned.

My primary role with Suffolk Life was to put some structure to their testing practices in line with industry accepted standards and methodologies. Worked closely with the testing functions at Prudential and HBOS to ensure the quality of the joint SIPPs solution from development to deployment and use.I put in place, and chaired. a CAB to formally review.

At the EA I was responsible for the testing of all aspects and releases of the Oracle eBusiness Suite (ERP, CRM, & HRMS). Particular focus was put on ensuring a quality product was delivered into acceptance testing and that the system solution did not compromise the Business Operating Model. This involved close liaison with Oracle, the solution deliverers.

Developed a testing strategy to deliver optimized testing on a web based booking solution similar to Expedia.

Developed testing strategy to fast track a fully working model of a product (All-u-Buy) to be built and marketed jointly by Tui InfoTec and Oracle US. All-u-Buy was a product for booking business trips according to iProcurement rules for hotels, cars, and flight.

Responsible for all aspects testing for the implementation of a new Oracle eBusiness solution for each company within the Tui UK Group, including systems, processes, workflows, and a new shared service centre.

Managed a small (£15M) portfolio of projects covering infrastructure through Oracle eBusiness upgrades, a GIS & field instrument development and roll out, and a replacement water quality testing solution.Recruited project managers and business analysts for TVW and mentored same through regular meetings.

Responsible for the delivery of a project to initiate the recovery of loans through PAYE.

Advised and assisted in the Y2K testing of several systems including the Oracle eBusiness suite and water quality systems.

Responsible for the testing of the replacement settlement and accounting solution (Tarot) including data migration from legacy and trialing of the deployment.

Worked on the Programme Management team for the deregulation of the domestic electricity supply (Programme '98) with 3 others and we were directly responsible for 17 project testing managers and their adherence to strategies, standards, and procedures we had developed to ensure the successful and timely delivery of the system and business solution.