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Brighton, England, United Kingdom

Battle, East Sussex, Uk

Battle, East Sussex, Uk

My role at Impartner is a combination of UAT tester and scrum master. Day-to-day I test Impartner's newsletter and social media web platform as part of a small development team. We follow the Scrum agile development framework and I am responsible for the sprint ceremonies. My main duties are:Black box testing on a web application written in PHP. Planning and writing test cases based on user stories. Providing fast and accurate feedback about new features and logging defects in Jira. Working with developers to identify the cause of defects and testing defect fixes. Using MySQL to analyse and maintain test data. Using Postman to check Impartner's API. Collaborating with the development team in planning meetings. Helping the product manager maintain the Jira product backlog. Arranging and participating in sprint review and sprint retrospective Scrum ceremonies. Helping the development team identify and overcome problems with our processes.

Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Uk

Performing black box testing on new releases of Regis's insurance policy management system. Writing and maintaining test cases. Logging defects with suppliers' support team. Providing accurate information to recreate problems and proactively chasing issues to get them resolved.Writing and executing REST API tests using jMeter. Planning, writing and maintaining automated tests for a pilot project using Ranorex. Providing first-line and second-line support to internal users. Querying SQL databases to investigate more complex issues.

Hastings, East Sussex

Part time volunteer working on a variety of conservation projects such as installing steps and fences and habitat management. Working individually or in small teams, often unsupervised, to complete tasks using own initiative and in the available time.

Rowlands Castle, Hampshire

Nimbus were a company who developed and sold business process management (BPM) software. Nimbus was acquired by TIBCO in August 2011.My role was to create and execute tests for Nimbus' range of products including desktop,web based and mobile software. The test process involved analysing specifications and writing functional test scripts to comprehensively test the software requirements and accurately reporting any defects that were found. I worked closely with developers to resolve issues and ensure that the delivered software was of high quality.As well as manual black box testing, I also wrote and maintained automated test scripts and worked on performance and stress testing to improve the quality of Nimbus' web application.

London, United Kingdom

Industry placement as part of my university degree course. Creating and maintaining dynamic web pages using Perl and MySQL for Multimap’s Customer Relations Management system and other internal projects.